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A Comparative History of National Oil Companies

by Alain Beltran (Volume editor)
©2010 Conference proceedings 346 Pages

Summary

Oil is undoubtedly rather more than a mere hydrocarbon. It is a development factor, an essential element in energy balances, a strategic weapon, a resource characterized by unequal distribution, and also by unequal consumption. For more than a century now, it has showed its importance, whether during periods of crisis, or at times of strong growth.
Under such circumstances, few countries have allowed mere market laws to operate freely. Whether visible or discreet, the hand of the State has been present in many cases, depending on different purposes and taking various forms. Hence national companies developed, if only in order to deal with the Majors and their greatly feared power. One finds examples of national companies both in Western Europe and in certain developing countries that have substantial resources on their soil. Those companies did not all experience the same destiny, but they have sometimes influenced the rules of the oil game.
The colloquium held in Paris in 2003 («National oil companies: history, characteristics, comparisons from the inter-war period to the end of the 20th century») provided some new facts and viewpoints in connection with this history, still relatively unknown.
You will read contributions here from various horizons making it possible to illuminate the present and the near future, since oil industry issues continue to challenge the world.

Details

Pages
346
Year
2010
ISBN (PDF)
9783035260014
ISBN (Softcover)
9789052015750
DOI
10.3726/978-3-0352-6001-4
Language
English
Publication date
2011 (February)
Keywords
Destin et gestion des compagnies pétrolières nationales Typologie des compagnies pétrolières nationales Rapports pays industrialisés et pays producteurs de pétrole Géopolitique du pétrole et du gaz
Published
Bruxelles, Bern, Berlin, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2010. 346 pp., 38 tables

Biographical notes

Alain Beltran (Volume editor)

The Editor: Alain Beltran is a research director at the National Centre for Scientific Research in a unit common to the Panthéon-Sorbonne and Paris-Sorbonne Universities. He has specialized in history of energy and of raw materials, of major companies, of innovation, and of public research. He has also published works on Électricité de France, Suez et Gaz de France, Elf-Aquitaine, SNCF, Veolia, etc. With Total Company’s help, he arranges colloquia dealing with the history of oil (the third one will be in 2010) and coordinates work on the history of hydrocarbons in France and in the countries formerly under French influence.

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