| Description |
1 online resource (799 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Gulf Studies
|
|
Gulf studies.
|
| Summary |
""Oil Men"" represents a unique resource for the student of the challenges, both physical and political, of oil prospecting in a region with no infrastructure and no formal boundaries between local power bases. The book charts the slow and unexpected transformation of the emirates from poverty to undreamed-of wealth. Detailed coverage with extensive access to primary sources describes the frequently tortuous negotiations between oil companies, sheikhs and regional political agents, all of whom sought to protect their different vested interests. The author has had full access to company records |
| Contents |
Half Title; Series Page; Title; Copyright; Contents; Common Acronyms; Acknowledgements; Preface; Introduction; 1 Petroleum Development (Trucial Coast) Before and During the War Years; 1.1 Why is There so Much Oil in the United Arab Emirates?; 1.2 The Search for Oil; 1.3 The Red Line Agreement and the IPC, PCL and PD(TC); 1.4 A Summary of Events in the UAE up to 1939. The First Geologists; 1.5 The Concession Negotiators; 1.6 Lermitte, the PD(TC) New Man; 1.7 And His (Her) Majesty's Government (HMG); 1.8 What Was Lermitte Doing when, on 3 September 1939, War Broke out in Europe? |
|
1.9 Lermitte Visited the Rulers1.10 A Concession for Fujairah?; 1.11 A Dramatic Turn of Events; 1.12 Every Inch to be Covered by a Concession; 1.13 There Appears to Have Been War Panic in London; 1.14 Williamson (Geologist) was Busy in London; 1.15 Preparing for Post-war Operations; 1.16 An American Visitor; 1.17 Longrigg Returns from the War; 1.18 The War is Over; 2 Don't Shoot the Geologist; 2.1 A Large Step Back in Time; 2.2. The Role of HMG; 2.3 The Trucial Oman Levies (Later Trucial Oman Scouts, TOS); 2.4 The IPC Office in London |
|
2.5 Time for the Geologists to Return to the Trucial Coast2.6 But Wait: Mohamed Ali Huwaidin al Kitbi has Something to Say; 2.7 Jebel Faiyah at Last, or Not?; 2.8 Why Shoot at a Geologist?; 2.9 Geologists Resume Work at Faiyah; 2.10 Was it Much Ado About Nothing?; 2.11 Plans for 3 Geophysical Parties to Come to the Trucial Coast in Autumn 1946; 2.12 The First Geophysical Survey in the North of the Country; 2.13 Vehicles -- for the Sheikhs; 2.14 And Now We Shoot at the New Man -- Welcome to Abu Dhabi; 2.15 Back to the North Where No One Wants to Know the Ghafalah Tribe |
|
2.16 The Surveyor, Fallon Does Not Find it Easy2.17 Would You Believe it?; 2.18 Another Season of Geophysical Surveys, also in Abu Dhabi Territory; 2.19 Jackson PD(TC) is Summoned by Sheikh Shakhbut; 3 Adventures in the Sultanate of Oman; 3.1 PD(TC) to Have a Man at Buraimi/Al 'Ain; 3.2 Bird is Engaged; 3.3 How did Bird Equip Himself for Such a Venture?; 3.4 Bird at Buraimi/Jahili. In Al 'Ain; 3.5 Bird's Second Trip to Buraimi/Jahili; 3.6 Sultan with Bird; 3.7 But Could the Sultan Deliver?; 3.8 Was Mr. W. Thesiger a Pest?; 3.9 Bird Goes to London; 3.10 The Sultan Asserts Himself |
|
3.11 Bird Goes to Muscat Again3.12 The Geologist Survey -- for a Time; 3.13 A Re-appraisal; 3.14 Bird Back at Jahili; 4 Turbulent Times; 4.1 Poverty, Gossip and Intrigue; 4.2 Did the Company Help to Ease the Poverty?; 4.3 Now a Bit of Economics; 4.4 Longrigg Returns to Abu Dhabi After 10 Years; 4.5 Ra's al-Khaimah, PD(TC) and a New Ruler; 4.6 How to Make an Enemy of Your Neighbour -- by Harbouring His Enemies; 4.7 Dubai; 4.8 Abu Dhabi; 4.9 And How were Disputes Settled?; 4.10 Hamriyah Sheikh Says 'Me Too'; 4.11 More Surprises, from Abu Dhabi |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Petroleum industry and trade -- Persian Gulf States.
|
|
Petroleum industry and trade. |
|
Persian Gulf States. |
|
United Arab Emirates -- History.
|
|
United Arab Emirates. |
|
United Arab Emirates -- Economic conditions.
|
|
Economic conditions. |
|
HISTORY -- Middle East -- General. |
|
History. |
|
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General. |
|
Economic history. |
|
Persian Gulf States. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
|
|
History.
|
| ISBN |
9783959940658 (electronic book) |
|
3959940653 (electronic book) |
|
9783959940641 |
|
