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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Just as a homeowner struggling with heating bills may turn to his bank for help, the have-not nations are hefty borrowers. Their loans from Western banks and international aid authorities have surged to a dangerously high $300 billion, and are expected to rise some $60 billion next year. The...
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...
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...
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...
In their middleman role, Aramco's American chiefs plainly have divided loyalties. From Chairman John J. Kelberer, a career-long Aramco engineering manager, on down, executives remain determined to do nothing that would anger their Saudi hosts or jeopardize the company's concession. During the 1973-74 Arab...