VOL. XXXVI

NO. 31

3-MAY-1993

Political Constraints On Oil Producers' Policy Options

by Ian Seymour

The following article is based on a presentation by MEES Editor Ian Seymourat the London Conference of the Centre for Global Energy Studies (CGES) on 6April.

As was pointed out earlier in this conference, the world today is full of E& P opportunities upstream for international oil companies. And yet in asignificant number of major oil exporting countries of the Third World - wherethe big oil is -...