VOL. XXXVIII

NO. 31

1-MAY-1995

Challenges For The Oil Producers Into The Twenty First Century

by Hisham M. Nazer

The following is the text of an address delivered by Mr. Hisham Nazer, theSaudi Arabian Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources, at the SecondInternational Conference on Catalysts in Petroleum Refining and PetrochemicalIndustries in Kuwait on 22 April.

As the twentieth century draws to a close, historians might debate the causesand forces underlying many of its junctures and epochs....