As citizen of an oil producing country I was always interested in the field, I read abundantly about oil. My management consulting firm hired a world renowned Petroleum Consultant, an MIT professor, while bidding on a contract with Venezuela’s national oil company (pre PDVSA). Yet I had never heard a word about Soviet oil production. How and why did the West suppress such information?
The Father of OPEC, Pedro Pablo Perez Alfonso coined the phrase “The Devil’s Excrement.”
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The Soviet Union was not spared
The Captain