Oil and Politics in Latin America: Nationalist Movements and State Companies

by George Philip

• ISBN13: 9780521030700
• ISBN10: 0521030706
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-01-29
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

This book provides a study of the transformation of the Latin American oil system from one in which the international oil companies dominated to one which is dominated by the main state oil companies, and an account of how someof the more important of the state companies have operated. This comprehensive guide to the evolution of the Latin American oil system combines in one volume a synthesis of material from secondary sources and original research and thus provides an invaluable reference for all concerned with the history and economy of Latin America and with the development and functioning of the international oil industry.

Table of Contents

List of tables

Preface

Glossary

Abbreviations

Note on currencies and other units of measurement

Maps

Introduction

The World Oil Environment

The corporate ascendancy 1890-1927

Retrenchment and concentration 1928-41

The making of the post-war oil world 1942-55

The major companies in retreat 1955-70

The oil market revolution and its consequences for Latin America 1971-9

Latin America in the twentieth-century oil system

The Major Expropriations

Politics and the concession contract

Argentina: YPF, Yrigoyen and the 1935 oil law

Some nationalisations of the 1930s: Chile, Uruguay, Bolivia

Cßrdenas and the Mexican oil nationalisation

The formation of Petrobrßs

The nationalisation of the IPC in Peru

The nationalisation of Gulf Oil in Bolivia 1969

Oil politics in Ecuador 1972-6

The nationalisation of oil in Venezuela

Oil companies and governments in twentieth-century Latin America

The State Oil Companies

Pemex in Mexican politics 1938-79

The development of Petrobrßs: oil company to conglomerate?

YPF 1932-79: public enterprise or bureaucracy?

Petroper· 1968-80: achievements and hard lessons

YPFB and the development of oil in Bolivia

PetrovTn: the birth of a giant

State oil companies in Latin America

Concluding reflections

Notes

Bibilography

Index

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