The Black Chimera: West Germany and the Scramble for Arab Oil, 1957-1974
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[Thesis]
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Nicholas Robert Ostrum
Subsequent Statement of Responsibility
Hong, Young-Sun
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
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State University of New York at Stony Brook
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2017
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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395
GENERAL NOTES
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Committee members: Frohman, Larry; Graf, Rüdiger; Marker, Gary
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Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-0-355-23821-1
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Ph.D.
Discipline of degree
History
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State University of New York at Stony Brook
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2017
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Gelsenberg Chairman Walter Cipa proclaimed in 1969 that the company's recent successes in Libya had been pivotal. "Even as a latecomer," he averred, "we have a real chance to take part in the international oil trade." Indeed, there was reason for such optimism. Gelsenberg's fields in Libya were the most productive sources any German company had claimed outside of Europe. Although speaking primarily of his own company's growing production, this statement also reveals much about the fortunes of the German petroleum sector from the 1950s through 1974. The Federal Republic had been slow to fully engage in the upstream (exploration and production) sector of the international oil trade. Unsurprisingly, German independents - receiving only belated and moderate support from successive social market-oriented administrations - encountered few early successes expanding into an Arab world that was proving increasingly petroleum rich, but whose fields had already been claimed by the major internationals. By the end of the 1960s, the Federal Republic seemed to be closing in on its last, best prospects to secure any meaningful degree of energy autonomy.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Middle Eastern history; European history
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Subject Term
Social sciences;Deutsche erdöl ag;Gelsenberg ag;Germany;Libya;Petroleum;Syria