Gov 365P/MES 322K: Politics of Oil
December 2, 2009

Study Sheet

Identify and give the significance of:

Dutch disease

PDVSA

rentier state

"maximum efficient rate of production" (MER)

production sharing agreement

Kyoto Protocol

oil swaps with Iran

Bosphorus

Strategic Petroleum Reserve

Nabucco pipeline project

Iran Libya Sanctions Act of 1996

Star Enterprise

Gulf Cooperation Council

Burgan field

netback pricing

shale oil

shale gas

Turkmenistan

Yadavaran oil field

Peres Alfonso

President Nursultan Nazarbayev

Sonatrach

Shanghai Cooperation Organization

Sheikh Hamid bin Khalifa al-Thani

Al Jazeera

Abdelaziz Bouteflika

October (Yom Kippur) War

"stability clause" in oil contracts

performance bonds

OAPEC

downstream integration

Muammar Al Qaddafi

Pemex

Iraq Petroleum Co

ADNOC

service contract

Nigeria/Sao Tome&Principe

Product Sharing Agreement

CNOOC and UNOCAL

International Energy Authority

Extraction Industries Transparency Initiative

Equatorial Guinea

Dubai World

Gazprom

Royal Dutch Shell in Nigeria


Nov. 28, 2009
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