OPEC, the Gulf, and the World Petroleum Market : A Study in Government Policy and Downstream Operations (Hardcover)

List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Foreword, Harrison Brown -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Oil Reserves, Production, and Exports -- The Oil Market: Structural Changes and Changing Perceptions -- Reserves and Resources -- Sources of Information -- OPEC Oil Reserves -- Maximum , Production Potential -- Production Profiles -- The World Oil Balance -- OPEC Production and Export Policies -- Iran -- Iraq -- Kuwait -- Qatar -- United Arab Emirates -- Saudi Arabia -- Emerging OPEC Export Strategies -- 2. The Refining Industry -- Demand for Petroleum Products -- Demand Patterns -- Refining Processes -- The Crisis in Refining -- Construction: OPEC and the Gulf -- Scrapping and the World Balance: The OECD Countries -- Gulf Refinery Flexibility and OPEC Product Exports -- Economics of Gulf Export Refineries -- The Second Stage: 1990 and Beyond -- 3. Oil Transport -- History to 1973 -- Structural Change -- The Fleet -- The Future Demand for Tankers -- Supply and Demand Balance -- OPEC's Role -- 4. Petrochemicals -- Basic Petrochemicals -- Structure of the Chemical Industry -- Ethylene and the Olefins -- Petrochemicals in the Gulf -- Petrochemical Markets -- Other Considerations -- 5. Natural Gas -- Reserves and Production -- Reinjection -- Trade -- OPEC's Domestic Use of Gas -- 6. The Future of OPEC Power Structure -- OPEC Pricing Policies -- OPEC's New Challenges in the 1980s -- Impact of Downstream Investments -- Abbreviations -- Index.