Download or read book Oil and Gas: Global issues written by Peter R. Odell and published by multi-science publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first of two volumes of collected papers and essays charts the sequence of significant developments over the past 40 years of the most international of industries—that of gas and oil. Explained are the physical attributes of oil and gas resources, reserves, and supply in their economic and political settings, with an emphasis on the quantities. This book also explores the economic and political inputs to the global oil and gas industry’s organization and markets since the early 1960s and the consequences of a loss of control, not only for the industry itself, but also for the western world’s economy and its political stability.