A perspective on Robert Mabro’s work and contribution to petroleum research

Journal article

To many of my generation who studied economics in the West in the 1970s and 1980s, developments in the oil market posed both research and cultural challenges. In the early 1970s, following what came to be known as the ‘first energy crisis’, we were confronted with a barrage of media coverage about the ‘Arab dominated OPEC’ who sought to ‘strangulate the industrial world’ by controlling the price of oil. This perception became more apparent following the transfer of pricing power from the concessionaire international oil companies to the governments of the oil exporting countries of the Middle East, North Africa, and Latin America. The Arab-Israeli war of 1973 and the Arab oil embargo against the USA then amplified this media bias.

Authors: Al-Moneef, M

• Publication status: Published
• Peer review status: Peer reviewed
• Publisher: Oxford Institute for Energy Studies
• Journal: Oxford Energy Forum
• Volume: 100
• Pages: 35-36
• Publication date: 2015-05-01
• ISSN: 0959-7727
• Language: English
• Keywords: Oxford Energy Forum; OIES