Power play : oil in the Middle East

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The concessionaires. The millionaires of Baku ; The absentee concessionaire ; Big deal ; The wells of Ibn Saud ; 35,000 gold sovereigns ; And then there was Kuwait

The operators. Gusher ; Domes for sale ; Skulduggery in Kuwait

The Arabs hit back. Someone else's war ; Shutdown in Arabia ; Breaking the thick red line

Enter the independents. Neutral zone ; Fifty-fifty ; The man in the pajama suit ; The flight of the Shah

The breakthrough. Trouble at the oasis ; Three sheiks and an American ; Blowup ; Enter the Japanese ; Over a barrel

The challenge of the sixties. Death of a gadfly ; Overthrow ; The Libyan jackpot ; Coup d'êtat

End of an epoch? Boycott ; Tidying up

Crude facts. Private club ; Participation ; The bottom of the barrel?

Appendix : The oil states of the Middle East : some facts and figures