| Main Title |
Twilight in the desert : the coming Saudi oil shock and the world economy / |
| Author |
Simmons, Matthew R.
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| Publisher |
John Wiley & Sons, |
| Year Published |
2005 |
| OCLC Number |
58451824 |
| ISBN |
047173876X (cloth); 9780471738763 (cloth); 0471790184 (pbk.); 9780471790181 (pbk.) |
| Subjects |
Petroleum industry and trade--Saudi Arabia ;
Petroleum industry and trade--Saudi Arabia--Forecasting ;
Petroleum reserves--Saudi Arabia ;
Oliewinning ;
Energietekort ;
Erdèolproduktion ;
Zukunft ;
Weltwirtschaft ;
èOlkrise ;
Saudi-Arabien
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Call Number |
Additional Info |
Location |
Last
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| EOAM |
HD9576.S32 2005 |
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Region 8 Technical Library/Denver,CO |
03/04/2013 |
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| Collation |
xxii, 422 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| Notes |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 391-408) and index. |
| Contents Notes |
The birth of a nation -- The history of major Saudi Arabian oil discoveries -- Saudi Arabia's road to oil market dominance -- The veil of secrecy over Saudi oil reserves and production -- Saudi Aramco -- Oil is not just another commodity -- Ghawar, the king of oilfields -- The second-tier oilfields -- The best of the rest -- Coming up empty in new exploration -- Turning to natural gas -- Saudi oil reserves claims in doubt -- Facing the inevitable -- Reading between the lines of the latest news from Aramco -- Aramco invokes "fuzzy logic" to manage the future of Saudi oil -- In search of crisper truths among the confident Saudi claims -- Aftermath. "Twilight in the Desert looks behind the curtain to reveal a Saudi oil and production industry that could soon approach a serious, irreversible decline"--Jacket. |
