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...Iraqi oil, and at the scattered fields to the west of Basra. A determined Iran could take Iraq out of the oil business for as long as two years. But even if warfare should paralyze the oil industries of Iran, Iraq and neighboring Kuwait, thereby removing about 4 million bbl. per day from world oil markets, the loss could be overcome by Saudi Arabia, which could increase production from its current 6.5 million to 10.5 million bbl...
This formidable axis would enjoy not only substantial military aid from the Soviet Union but also the enormous oil reserves of Iran and Iraq (before the war, combined output reached as high as 8 million bbl. per day) to pay for such arms. More important, Islamic revolutionary ardor could rapidly sweep through the gulf sheikdoms, as well as Saudi Arabia's oil-rich eastern province, particularly if encouraged by Khomeini militants who are so imbued with the notion of a Shi'ite holy crusade. As Iran's military machine gathers its strength at the Iraqi frontier...
...modest oil glut developed in the past year, however, the price of Oklahoma crude started slumping, from a peak of $38 per bbl. to a trough of about $32. Penn Square's once attractive loans suddenly became big burdens for borrowers increasingly unable to repay...
...case, but last year's world oil glut brought a sudden end to Mexico's spree. As prices for crude oil began to drop around the world, Mexico stubbornly tried to hold the line. When Jorge Diaz Serrano, the president of Pemex, announced a $4-per-bbl. price cut, he was promptly sacked, and Mexican oil prices were jacked up again. Customers went elsewhere until Mexico bowed to the pressures of the marketplace. By that time, the country had lost about $1 billion hi revenue, and the drain has continued. Laments one Mexican businessman: "We thought we were...
Jubail and Yanbu, which is under construction 700 miles to the southwest on the Red Sea, represent an Ozyman-dian-scale hedge by Saudi Arabia against the eventual depletion in 65 years of its 165 billion bbl. of proven crude oil reserves. The cities, replete with petrochemical complexes, refineries, a steel mill and smaller secondary industries by the dozen, will be counted on to help keep the Saudi economy vibrant and the country's small but rapidly growing population employed and enjoying a rising living standard far into the 21st century...