The age of oil : the mythology, history, and future of the world's most controversial resource /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Maugeri, Leonardo, 1964-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2006.
Subjects:	Petroleum > History > 19th century. Petroleum > History > 20th century. Petroleum > History > 21st century. Petroleum industry and trade > History > 19th century. Petroleum industry and trade > History > 20th century. Petroleum industry and trade > History > 21st century. Petroleum reserves.
Online Access:	Table of contents only

Table of Contents:

John D. Rockefeller's cursed legacy
The age of gasoline and oil imperialism
The carve-up of Arabia's oil
The oil glut of the 1930s
Cold War fears and the U.S.-Arabian link
The Iran tragedy and the "seven sisters" cartel
The golden age of oil and its limits
Oil and the explosion of Arab nationalism
The first oil shock
The second oil shock
The countershock
A storm in the desert : the first gulf crisis
The Soviet implosion and the troubled Caspian El Dorado
The collapse of oil prices and industry megamergers
The first oil crisis of the twenty-first century
Are we running out of oil?
The inner secrets of oil
The puzzle of oil reserves and production, and the quest for their control
The problems with oil quality, price, and consumption trends
Flawed forecasts, foggy alternatives to oil
Arabs, Islam, and the myth of oil security
Appendixes. 1. Proven reserves, production, and reserves life index of the first twenty oil countries in the world and world totals (2004) ; 2. Consumption trends of the first twenty countries in the world (1980-2004) ; 3. Main features of some qualities of crude oil ; 4. The largest national oil companies ; 5. The largest international oil companies.