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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The U.S. has tapped just about all the easily recoverable oil and gas it is likely to find within its own land area. Now the most promising areas for new finds of these fuels lie offshore, under water depths ranging from a few yards to 1,000 ft. or more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Hot Prospect | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

Estimates of how much oil could be tapped off Alaska's entire outer continental shelf (OCS), including the Beaufort Sea, range up to 25 billion bbl., or nearly three times the reserves in Alaska's Prudhoe Bay field. Some oilmen believe that with a big development effort, Alaska...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Hot Prospect | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

In the U.S., Aramco is under attack because of a highly complex tax break. The company pays Saudi Arabia the fixed price for the oil that it extracts and then collects a production fee of 25? per bbl. But 85% of its payments are considered Saudi income taxes, which Aramco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Aramco's Stormy Petrol | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

Aramco's many critics also complain that the company is altogether too cozy with the Saudi government. Why, they ask, have the Saudis failed to complete their plan to buy out 100% of the company's production facilities? The government announced the nationalization plan five years ago. So...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Aramco's Stormy Petrol | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

Company officers are extremely wary of divulging details of their business, and slips can prove costly. Example: much of Saudi Arabia's ability to restrain OPEC from driving up prices has depended on whether the Saudis can convincingly threaten to boost production enough to create periodic petroleum gluts. Yet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Aramco's Stormy Petrol | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

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