VOL. XLII

No. 23

7-June-1999

OPEC

Oil And National Security

The following is the text of a report on Oil and NationalSecurity prepared by the Petroleum Industry Research Foundation Inc. (PIRINC).The report has been submitted to the US Department of Commerce, which hasinitiated a new investigation under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act ofthe effects on the national security of imports of crude oil and petroleumproducts.

Oil and national security have been the subject ofgovernment...