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Africa is often seen as a place to be pitied or feared as an area of instability. This book challenges these complacent assumptions, showing how our demand for oil contributes to the chronic problems plaguing the continent. Douglas A. Yates shows how the 'scramble' by the great powers for African oil has fed corruption and undermined democracy. Yates documents how Africans have refused to remain passive in the face of such developments, forming movements...

Documents the activities of the major oil companies before and during the oil crisis of the 1970s and demonstrates how their complete control over information about supplies allowed them to manipulate the market.

J.B. Saunders was a pioneer in developing Triangle Refineries, Inc., in 1937 and several of his innovations for the refining process have been adopted around the world. His company later became part of the expanding Oil Industries, and Saunders eventually became vice chairman and senior vice president at Kerr-McGee.

In the 1970s and 1980s the Texas wildcatter was a recognizable figure in popular culture. Since then, the wildcatter's role is less celebrated but still important, as shown in the new introduction to this edition of a book originally published in 1984 by Texas Monthly Press.