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| Genre/Form: | History |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Longrigg, Stephen Hemsley. Oil in the Middle East. New York : Oxford University Press, 1961 (OCoLC)651941236 |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Stephen Hemsley Longrigg |
| OCLC Number: | 44623907 |
| Description: | 401 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | 1. The beginning: -- Oil formation -- Middle East oil -- Surface signs and earliest uses -- Birth of the industry -- Middle East Oil in the nineteenth century. 2. Before the First World War: -- The new century -- Persia and the A.P.O.C. -- Egypt -- The Turkish Empire and Arabia -- Turkish Petroleum Company. 3. The First World War and after: -- The war years -- the war in Persia -- Persia after the war -- Egypt, 1914-23 -- Levant, Turkey, Arabia, and Iraq, 1914-23. 4. Oil under Riza Shah: -- Between the wars -- The nineteen-twenties in Persia -- 1933: a New Deal -- Fields and Abadan, 1933-9. 5. Hope and fulfillment in Iraq: -- Naftkhana -- The Red Line -- Baba Gurgur -- Revised concession and B.O.D. -- Mediterranean pipeline -- West of Tigris -- The Basra Province. 6. The Levant between the wars: -- Turkey -- The Levant states: pipelines and terminals -- The Levant states: the search for oil -- Egypt: renewal of hope. 7. The beginnings in Arabia: -- First steps -- Bapco -- Quatar -- Casoc -- Kuwait -- West, south, and southeast. 8. Second World War: Iraq and Persia: -- Iraq catastrophe -- Recovery in Iraq -- Recession in Persia -- Persia: the war achievement -- Russian concession. 9. Second World War: Arabia and Levant: -- The fortunate: Saudi Arabia -- The unfortunate: Qatar and Kuwait -- Turkey and the Levant -- Egypt in the war. 10. The tragedy of Persia: -- Russian concession -- Development in Persia: the last phase -- The Anglo-Iranian as employer -- Agreement, disagreement, and nationalization -- Aftermath. 11. Mid-century in Iraq: -- End of the Red Line -- Kirkuk and the I.P.C. -- The new pipelines -- 'Ain Zala and the M.P.C. -- Zubair and the B.P.C. -- Naftkhana and the K.O.C. -- Companies and government -- Uncertain prospects. 12. Arabia, 1946-53: the all-American companies: -- The peninsula, 1946-53 -- Progress of Aramco -- Tapline -- Aramco, government, and public -- Neutral zone -- Bapco and Bahrain. 13. Arabia, 1946-53: The international companies: -- Kuwait -- Qatar -- Southern Arabia. 14. The Levant countries since 1945: -- Turkey -- Syria-Lebanon -- Palestine and Jordan -- Israel -- Egypt. 15. Iraq, 1953-60: -- Governmental and general -- Northern Iraq -- Southern Iraq. 16. Persia, 1953-60: -- The consortium -- The operating companies in action -- Refining and services -- N.I.O.C. -- More foreign enterprises. 17. Saudi Arabia, 1953-60: -- Kingdom and company -- Exploration and production -- Refining, transporting, exporting. 18. The Arabian principalities, 1953-60: -- Kuwait -- Neutral zone -- Bahrain -- Qatar -- South-eastern Arabia -- South-western Arabia. 19. The Levant countries, 1953-60: -- Turkey -- Cyprus -- The Lebanon -- Israel -- Jordan -- United Arab Republic: Syria -- United Arab Republic: Egypt and the Canal -- The Sudan. 20. Middle Eastern Oil, 1960: Facts and probabilities: -- The industry summarized -- The agencies of development -- Present and future. |
| Responsibility: | Stephen Hemsley Longrigg. |
Abstract:
Traces the rise of petroleum development in the Middle East, the speed and scale of which led it to become, in two decades, a vital factor in world economies. It also discusses the international significance of the existence of this form of wealth concentrated in an area with a known history of political sensitiveness and strategic value.
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