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... KUWAIT , that wedge of desert at the head of the Persian Gulf between Saudi Arabia and Iraq , is only seventy miles broad and eighty miles long , but beneath its sands is a veritable sea of ... Kuwait's oil , 115 NINE Skulduggery in Kuwait.
... KUWAIT , that wedge of desert at the head of the Persian Gulf between Saudi Arabia and Iraq , is only seventy miles broad and eighty miles long , but beneath its sands is a veritable sea of ... Kuwait's oil , 115 NINE Skulduggery in Kuwait.
Page 119
... Kuwait was , in fact , sitting on one of the largest reservoirs of oil the world has ever known , but everyone ... Kuwait , with three wells ready to go , stagnated . Sheik Ahmad , short of money , aware of restiveness in his ter- ritory ...
... Kuwait was , in fact , sitting on one of the largest reservoirs of oil the world has ever known , but everyone ... Kuwait , with three wells ready to go , stagnated . Sheik Ahmad , short of money , aware of restiveness in his ter- ritory ...
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... Kuwait " A nice little oligarchy " was how one observer once described the regime . OIL COMPANIES : Kuwait Oil Co. ( KOC ) , onshore ( Owned by British Petroleum Ltd. 50 % and Gulf Oil Co. of U.S. 50 % . ) Pro- duces 90 % of Kuwait oil ...
... Kuwait " A nice little oligarchy " was how one observer once described the regime . OIL COMPANIES : Kuwait Oil Co. ( KOC ) , onshore ( Owned by British Petroleum Ltd. 50 % and Gulf Oil Co. of U.S. 50 % . ) Pro- duces 90 % of Kuwait oil ...
Contents
ONE The Millionaires of Baku | 3 |
TWO The Absentee Concessionaire | 14 |
THREE Big Deal | 29 |
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