A Pipeline Runs Through It by Fisher, Keith -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Title Page About the Author List of Illustrations Acknowledgements 1: Earth Oil

The Middle East and Central Asia Africa Asia Europe Latin America and the Caribbean North America

2: Seneca Oil

Drilling in Ohio Country Imperial Collision Imperial Overstretch Imperial Handover ‘Trade of a Rising Empire’ ‘A Subdued People’ Seneca Chief The $300,000 Question

3: Oildom

Barrels of Oil Wartime Demand and Destruction The Cleveland Nexus From Pithole by Pipeline and Tank Car Fire, Flood, Boom and Bust

4: Corporate Control

Battle for the Oil Trade Pipeline to Monopoly Benson’s Folly ‘Corporations Derive their Powers from the People’ The Standard Oil Trust Standard Oil, Producers and Independents

5: A Global Industry

‘So Little Exploited by Man’ Caucasian Battleground Reclaiming the Russian Market Across the Caucasus to the World International Competition Colonial Oil East and West of Suez ‘The Battle for All Christendom’ The Markets of the World ‘Petroleum Craze at Baku’ The Royal Dutch and the Shell

6: Oil for Power

Oil Engines ‘The Teeming Millions of the Middle Kingdom’ An Industry in Flux ‘Teeming Liquid Wealth’ ‘The Virgin Oil Fields of Persia’ Liquid Fuel and Sea Power Petroleum Spirit ‘The Destruction of the Communistic System’

7: A Volatile Mix

The ‘Asphalt War’ Revolution in Russia – A ‘Dress Rehearsal’ Revolution in Persia, and the Plain of Oil British Supremacy over Baghdad Revolution in Mexico – ‘Police the Surrounding Premises’ America ‘at the Threshold of a Revolution?’ ‘A Paper Victory for the People’ Economic Warfare ‘A Volley of Arrows’

8: Oil for War

Oil ‘for a Great War’ Internal Combustion Spheres of Interest ‘Will Germany Control the Oil Supply of our Navy?’ Britain’s State Oil Company ‘Surrounded by Material Far More Inflammable than the Oil’ The Turkish Petroleum Company The Sanctity of British Supremacy’ ‘We Have Lost Control and the Landslide has Begun’

Epilogue Images Notes Bibliography Index Copyright