Published December 1993 | Version v1
Journal article

Arab oil and gas

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This review explains the situation of petroleum products and gas in Arab countries. Several kinds of difficulties are exposed: too many projects, concurrence of other producers like Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Norway, Russian Federation, will be rude. New exporters (Iran, Venezuela, Nigeria, even Alaska) will appear and will want a part of market and western countries will probably diversify their tradesmen. An other point is that producers overestimate future growth of worldwide demand or underestimate the impact of more expansive gas price on this demand. Inversely if this one is too low, several projects, would not be profitable. The last point is in the concurrence between gas and petroleum products, which needs a consistent policy

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Original title (French)
Le petrole et le gaz arabes

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Petrole et le Gaz Arabes
Journal Volume
25
Journal Issue
593
Journal Page Range
p. 3-40.
ISSN
0031-6369
CODEN
PTGAAO