The seven sisters : the great oil companies and the world they shaped /

Exxon, Gulf, Texaco, Mobil, Socal, B.P., and Shell: five huge American companies, one British company, and one Anglo-Dutch concern have dominated the world of oil - as oil has dominated all of us - for most of the century since the first Pennsylvania strike. How did this largest and most critical of...

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Main Author: Sampson, Anthony, 1926-2004
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Viking Press, 1975.
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520 |a Exxon, Gulf, Texaco, Mobil, Socal, B.P., and Shell: five huge American companies, one British company, and one Anglo-Dutch concern have dominated the world of oil - as oil has dominated all of us - for most of the century since the first Pennsylvania strike. How did this largest and most critical of the world's industries come under the control of these seven giants, and what will happen to them now, balanced on the tightrope between the demands of consumers and their partnership with the producing countries of OPEC? 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 |a Who controls? -- The Rockefeller inheritance -- Oil and empire -- The carve-up -- Jackpot -- Iran and democracy -- The intruders -- OPEC -- Sisters under stress -- Libyan ulitmatum -- The crunch -- Embargo -- The reckoning -- The new cartel -- The seduction. 
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650 7 |a Organisation des pays exportateurs de pétrole.  |2 eclas 
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