VOL. XXXII

NO. 52

2-OCTOBER-1989

GENERAL

Schlesinger Predicts Rising Dependence on Gulf Producers

"The most significant, indeed the dominant, trend in energy is therapidly growing dependency on OPEC and producing nations of the Persian orArabian Gulf," according to former US Secretary of Energy James Schlesinger.Addressing the World Energy Conference in Montreal on 20 September, Mr.Schlesinger noted that "in just three years' time the call on OPEC crudehas risen by some 25%," in large measure due...