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EUROPEAN OIL CARTEL OPERATIONS IN AREAS OF MILITARY CONFLICT

The history of the last century of the Middle East was determined primarily by the actions of states pursuing the agenda of a European Oil Cartel, or collective monopoly, which sought to manage the seizure of mineral extracts from target countries under the political umbrella of anti-Ottoman-Nazism, and later anti-Communist, ideologies. Perhaps less well known is the historical gap between the stated conflict goals of the First World War, and its later political realization. So even before Austria attacked Serbia ostensibly because of a terrorist incident by a young Bosnian, leading to World War with Germany and its Ottoman Turk ally, European financial interests had already begun preparations for seizure of geoeconomic interests in areas under Ottoman Turk protection. Moreover the oil cartel attended political conferences during and after the war for allocation of geographic control by states, and for negotiation of financial percentages and admission within the collective monopoly, cartel, consortium:

“In 1912, the Turkish Petroleum Company (TPC) was formed to seek a concession from the Ottoman Empire to explore for Iraqi oil. The owners were a group of big European oil companies and the purpose of the company was to avoid rivalry among the partners and to outflank other concession seekers. The brain behind the creation was the Armenian-born businessman Calouste Gulbenkian, and the largest single shareholder was the British government-controlled Anglo-Persian Oil Company, [Later becoming BP Plc])which by 1914 held 50% of the shares. Another important shareholder was Royal Dutch/Shell…In 1929 the TPC was renamed the Iraq Petroleum Company (IPC)….

Following the defeat, and break-up of the Ottoman Empire after the war, shareholding in TPC became a major issue at the San Remo conference in 1920 (where the future of the non-Turkish areas of the Ottoman Empire was finally decided), as the war had demonstrated to the big powers the importance of having their own sources of oil. One of the original partners had been a German oil company, and the French had seized those shares as enemy property and demanded entrance into TPC through those. And both the Italian and United States governments demanded that their oil companies should be partners as well. After prolonged and sharp diplomatic exchanges, US oil companies were permitted to buy into the TPC, but it would take several years until the negotiations were completed

During the 1940s and 1950s, the company also obtained concessions to explore for oil in Dubai and other Gulf states. It retained its monopoly of exploration and development in Iraq until 1961, when the revolutionary government of General Qassem nationalized 99.5 % of its concession areas in Iraq,”

Part and parcel of the Cartel allocation of territory within the Turkish dominions was the establishment of client Arab states primarily under the indirect control of the British Colonial office in India, which itself had close contact with the Cartel operations in Iraq and Dubai. For example, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and its leader and founder directly, were British agents and mercenaries:

Ibn Saud did not, however, immediately make war against Ibn Rashid, despite a steady supply of weapons and cash (£5,000 Sterling per month) from the British. He argued that the payment he received was insufficient to adequately wage war against an enemy as powerful as Ibn Rashid. In 1920, however, Ibn Saud finally marched again against the Rashidis, extinguishing their dominion in 1922. The defeat of the Rashidis doubled the territory of the Ibn Saud, and he was able to negotiate a new treaty with the British at Uqair in 1922, in which Britain recognized many of his territorial gains while in exchange Ibn Saud agreed not to attempt to expand his state's borders into British protectorates on the Gulf coast and in Iraq. British subsidies continued until 1924.

All of this might appear to be a simple history lesson, if it were not the fact that the TPC-IPC collective monopoly, cartel, continues to exist today, if not in name, but instead in its preserved functionality which was the allocation of interests to European Oil companies (actually to the hidden owners of those companies), and to maintain market stability for profit stability, while allowing expansion into new areas of geographic interest. So in 2008, we see that “To the Victors goes the Spoils”, with the announcement of US troop withdrawals coinciding with the assignment of permanent control over Iraqi oil fields to the cartel:

Four major western oil companies, Exxon, Mobil, Shell, BP and Total, are about to sign US-brokered no-bid contracts with the US-installed Baghdad regime to begin exploiting Iraq’s oil fields. Saddam Hussein had kicked these firms out three decades ago when he nationalized Iraq’s foreign-owned oil industry for the benefit of Iraq’s national development. The Baghdad regime is turning back the clock

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Interestingly, the same oil companies that used to exploit Iraq when it was a British colony are now returning. As former US Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan recently admitted, the Iraq war was all about oil. VP Dick Cheney stated in 2003 that the invasion of Iraq was about oil, and for the sake of Israel.

Meanwhile, according to Pakistani and Indian sources, Afghanistan just signed a major deal to launch a long-planned, 1680 km long pipeline project expected to cost $ 8 billion. If completed, the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India pipeline (TAPI) will export gas and, later, oil from the Caspian Basin to Pakistan’s coast where tankers will transport it to the west.

The Cartel is alive. It lives and breathes but goes unnoticed by its media. For more information and data on the cartel operations, collective coordinated capitalism, called cartelism, and the operation of the BP-Shell in the areas of the current Georgia-Russia conflict, and sadly, in the Sudan’s Darfur conflict, consult the references in the data almanac.

(pdf) DATA ALMANAC EUROPEAN OIL CARTEL OPERATIONS CASPIAN, SUDAN, IRAQ

DATA ALMANAC EUROPEAN OIL CARTEL OPERATIONS CASPIAN, SUDAN, IRAQ