The importance of energy to the functioning of any economy has meant that energy industries are amongst the most regulated of industries. What might appear to be purely private decisions are made within a complex and evolving web of government regulations. Petropolitics: Petroleum Development,...

1. Introduction. State of the Art -- 2. Territorial diffusion of gas in Latin Europe before electricity competition -- 3. Gas regulation in Latin Europe -- 4. Gas municipalizations in Latin Europe -- 5. Gas in Latin Europe -- 6. Gas in Paris and Rome up to the advent of electricity -- 7. Gas...