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Uncertain Future. Also, the amount of "free" oil is small. The Saudis sell only about 6.25% of their daily output on the open market. The bulk of their production is committed to four U.S. companies: Exxon, Texaco, Mobil and Chevron. They stand to benefit most from the two-tier system, but how much of the savings they will pass on to the U.S. consumer is unclear...
Meanwhile, company size rankings in the oil business could change. Four American companies−Exxon, Texaco. Mobil and Chevron−that import heavily from Saudi Arabia will be able to undersell such other producers as Shell, British Petroleum and Compagnie Française des Petroles, which rely more heavily on the higher-priced OPEC states. All in all. Yamani seems to have touched off a classic capitalist price war. That is scarcely what cartels are supposed to do. and OPEC least of all; its increases were once heralded as the start of a "new economic order." But that was before...
...expensive equipment (see color), have in many cases doubled, or even tripled, in the past two years. Through 1980, costs could reach $35 billion for Britain and Norway alone, or $11 billion more than the U.S. spent to land a man on the moon. Major U.S. oil companies, including Chevron, Amoco, Exxon, Texaco and others are drilling in the North Sea. But rigs are now in surplus, and the pace of exploration is expected to slow. One Norwegian oilman says flatly that "the North Sea is not a bonanza...
Fascinated by the implications of what were apparently man-made quakes, USGS scientists in 1969 set up their instruments at the Rangely oilfield in northwestern Colorado. There, Chevron was recovering oil from less productive wells by injecting water into them under great pressure. The recovery technique was setting off small quakes, the strongest near wells subjected to the greatest water pressure. If water was pumped out of the earth, the survey scientists wondered, would the quakes stop? In November 1972, they forced water into four of the Chevron wells. A series of minor quakes soon began, and did not stop...
Early last month, an eight-page letter from the Ministry to the European Commission of the Common Market was leaked to the press. It alleges that Shell, BP, Chevron, Mobil and Esso conspired to drive out independent oil marketers, juggled their books to avoid paying West Germany's high taxes and engaged in price fixing. The oil firms deny all the charges, and the government refuses to comment on the letter. Relations between both sides have never been worse...