Oil Leaders : : An Insider’s Account of Four Decades of Saudi Arabia and OPEC's Global Energy Policy / / Ibrahim AlMuhanna.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2022
• VerfasserIn: AlMuhanna, Ibrahim,
• MitwirkendeR: McNally, Robert,; Mcnally, Robert,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Center on Global Energy Policy Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

Oil is an unusual commodity in that individual decisions can have an outsized effect on the market. OPEC+’s choice to increase production, for instance, might send prices falling, affecting both oil producers and consumers worldwide. What do the leading oil market players consider before making a fateful move?Oil Leaders offers an unprecedented glimpse into the strategic thinking of top figures in the energy world from the 1980s through the recent past. Ibrahim AlMuhanna—a close adviser to four different Saudi oil ministers during that period—examines the role of individual and collective decision making in shaping market movements. He analyzes how powerful individuals made critical choices, tracking how they responded to the flow of information on pivotal market and political events and predicted reactions from allies and adversaries. AlMuhanna highlights how the media has played an increasingly important role as a conduit of information among multiple players in the oil market. Energy leaders have learned to manage the signals they send to the market and to other relevant players in order to avoid sending oil prices into a spiral.AlMuhanna draws on personal familiarity with many of these individual decision makers as well as his participation in decades of closed-door sessions where crucial choices were made. Featuring revelatory behind-the-scenes perspective on pivotal oil market events and dynamics, this book is a must-read for practitioners and policy makers engaged with the global energy world.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction. Decisions, Decision Makers, and Oil -- Chapter One Ahmed Zaki Yamani: Good Start, Difficult Ending -- Chapter Two Hisham Nazer: Shifting Interests and Looking Nationally -- Chapter Three Saddam Hussein and Sheikh Ali al-Sabah: Invasion of a Nation -- Chapter Four Luis Giusti, the Jakarta Agreement, and Its Aftermath -- Chapter Five Prince Saud al-Faisal: An Interim Energy Leader -- Chapter Six Hugo Chavez: The Rise of a Man and the Decline of a Nation -- Chapter Seven King Abdullah, George W. Bush, and Gordon Brown: The Shadows of 2008 -- Chapter Eight Barack Obama, Donald Trump, and Joe Biden: A Revolving U.S. Energy Policy -- Chapter Nine Ali Al-Naimi: The Road to Doha -- Chapter Ten Vladimir Putin: Placing Russia on the Global Oil Map -- Chapter Eleven Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman: The Forty-Five Day Oil Shock -- Conclusion Thoughts About the Future -- NOTES -- INDEX