MER Article OPEC's Decade No one can deny that the past ten years have witnessed great changes in the international oil industry. A decade ago, the seven largest international oil companies -- Exxon, Shell, British Petroleum, Texaco, Standard of California, Mobil and Gulf -- still dominated the industry in virtually every re Stephen Zorn, Michael Tanzer • 10 min read
MER Article Ten Years After It is still possible, even likely, that history will take note of the remarkable events of late 1973 and early 1974: Egyptian troops crossed the Suez Canal and penetrated the supposedly impregnable Bar Lev line in a matter of hours; the kings and presidents of the Arab oil producing states, led by F Joe Stork • 13 min read
MER Article The Arab Economies in the 1970s The 1970s were undoubtedly the most dramatic and important years in recent Middle Eastern history. The decade began politically with the death of Nasser, the formal withdrawal of the British from the Gulf and the first sharp increase in the price of oil. Oil -- its production and marketing, its reve Roger Owen • 27 min read
MER Article What the Carter Doctrine Means to Me The following document is edited from the official transcript of a speech by Secretary of Defense Harold Brown to the Council on Foreign Relations in New York City on March 6, 1980. The 1970s closed with the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. The 1980s opened with the ensuing debate, both in this coun (Author not identified) • 12 min read
MER Article The Carter Doctrine and US Bases in the Middle East On Thursday, July 10, a squadron of 12 brown and green camouflaged F-4E Phantom fighter-bombers landed at Cairo West Air Base after a non-stop 13-hour flight from Moody Air Base in Georgia. A week earlier five C-141s and 28 C-5s airlifted some 4 million pounds of equipment and supplies and more than Joe Stork • 38 min read
MER Article Iran's Oil Workers A shroud of silence seems to have enveloped Iran’s oil industry since last fall when the top oil official Hassan Nazih was dismissed under charges of treason, allegedly for failing to purge non-Islamic elements from the ranks of the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC). Even production and export fig Joe Stork • 2 min read
