Oil is the world‘s biggest and most pervasive business, the greatest of the great industries that arose in the last decades of the nineteenth century.These words of Daniel Yergin in his book, The Prize (1991), which chronicles the development of the world‘s oil industry, highlight the...

Oil is the world's biggest and most pervasive business, the greatest of the great industries that arose in the last decades of the 19th century. The words of Daniel Yergin in his book, "The Prize" (1991), which chronicles the development of the world's oil industry, highlight the importance of...