1st Edition
Oil for Britain The United Kingdom and the Remaking of the International Oil Industry, 1957-1988
By Jonathan Kuiken
Copyright 2023
248 Pages
by
Routledge
248 Pages
by
Routledge
248 Pages
by
Routledge
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The period from 1957 to 1988 was transformative for the international oil industry. The United Kingdon, home to two major oil companies, British Petroleum (BP) and Shell, as well as the possessor of large quantities of oil and gas in its territorial waters, was at the heart of this transition.
While famous for its liberal policy toward oil and gas production, both before and after the... Read more
Introduction. 1. A more active phase: Upholding the status quo in a changing world of oil, 1957-1962 2. Cartels and Chaos: Declining State and Company Power, 1962-1968 3. Safety in diversity: the search for new sources of oil, 1957-1969 4. Profits Abroad, Taxes at Home: Oil and Britain’s Finances, 1957-1968 5. Participating in Defeat: Shifts in the Balance of Power, 1968-1972 6. Facing Down the “Oil Weapon”: Doomed efforts at consumer cooperation, 1971-1973 7. Partners and Rivals: Battles Abroad, Battles at Home, 1968-1973 8. Britain First?: Weathering the “oil shock” and its aftermath, 1973-1974 9. Oil in the National Interest: The Troubled Birth of BNOC, 1973-1976 10. Preferring to dismember it: Thatcher, the demise of BNOC, and the embrace of a global oil industry, 1978-1988 11. Conclusion
Biography
Jonathan R. Kuiken is an associate professor of History at Wilkes University. He is the author of articles such as "Ignoring, countering and undercutting OPEC: Britain, BP, Shell and the shifting global energy order, 1960–1986" (2020) and ‘La persistence d’empire? Le rôle des compagnies pétrolières britanniques en Afrique postcoloniale’ (2017). He received his doctorate from Boston College in 2013.
