A Comparative History of National Oil Companies

Contents: Alain Beltran: A Comparative History of National Oil Companies. Introduction - Anne-Thérèse Michel: The Sources of Oil History. Total Group's Historical Archives - André Philippon: The French Example. The 1928s Laws. Longevity and Effectiveness of the Approach to Creating and Maintaining a National Oil Industry in a Consumer Country - Appearances and Realities - Douglas A. Yates: Life Stories and Family Histories of the French Oil Industry. The Rise and Fall of the Corps des Mines - Mohamed Sassi: The Merger between CFP and Desmarais Frères in 1965. Toward Formation of Total Group - Samir Saul: SN REPAL, CFP and «Oil-Paid-in-Francs» - Pier Angelo Toninelli: Energy Supply and Economic Development in Italy. The Role of the State-owned Companies - Gabriel Tortella: Oil Policies in 20th-Century Spain - Khaoua Nadji: The SONATRACH Oil Company (Algeria). Development Lever or Instrument of Power? - Martin Chick: Oil, National Security and Fuel Policy in France and the United Kingdom, 1945-1972 - René Walther: Pechelbronn from 1918 to 1962, or Constitution of a National Oil Company Based on a Local Deposit - Christophe Briand: Société Nationale des Pétroles d'Aquitaine. An Industrial Strategy between National Interests and Local Expectations (from 1951 to the end of the 1960s) - Daniele Pozzi: The Natural Gas Industry in Italy since Autarky until Eni's Hegemony (1935-1965) - Mogens Rüdiger: The Danish Oil and Natural Gas Company, 1972-2000 - Morgan Le Dez: Normandy: A Centre for Oil Companies Setting up Shop (1919-1939) - Uri Bialer: Delek: the Formative Period of Israel's National Oil Company - Armelle Demagny: France and the Project for a Community Oil Policy, from the Signature of the Treaty of Rome to the First Oil Shock - Carlo J. Morelli: The Anglo-Iranian Oil Company 1945-1954. Government Business Relationships in Conflict?

The Editor: Alain Beltran is a research director at the National Centre for Scientific Research in a unit common to the Panthéon-Sorbonne and Paris-Sorbonne Universities. He has specialized in history of energy and of raw materials, of major companies, of innovation, and of public research. He has also published works on Électricité de France, Suez et Gaz de France, Elf-Aquitaine, SNCF, Veolia, etc. With Total Company's help, he arranges colloquia dealing with the history of oil (the third one will be in 2010) and coordinates work on the history of hydrocarbons in France and in the countries formerly under French influence.