Then follows a history of antitrust decisions and investigations involving mergers and divestitures in the industry, and significant facts which influenced decisions. See all 8 formats and editions hide other formats and editions. In a recent transport merger, the top 30 leaders at the company were all given a shared performance bonus if the company achieved its integration milestones including reaching the synergy goal. This can lead to a better quality of goods for consumers. I argue that the effect of this oil income depends heavily on the domestic politics of the petrostate. Take the merger of exxon and mobil, announced in 1998.
After wining the war, the allies imposed extremely hard conditions on germany. When oil causes war, colgan finds that petrostates countries where revenue from oil exports exceeds 10 percent of gdp are twice as likely to engage in interstate conflict than nonpetrostates. This article related to natural gas, petroleum or the petroleum industry is a stub. Our annual outlook reflects on recent deal activity, explores the impact of trade and commodity prices, and outlines five predictions for the year ahead. Summary the current oil price decline has the potential to trigger a. Petro aggression when oil causes war international relations and. There were several large headline transactions in 2019, but. Petroaggression shows that oil creates incentives that increase a petrostates aggression, but also incentives for the opposite. During the past few years there has been a significant increase in mergers and acquisitions in the petroleum industry table 1. The strict antitrust enforcement starting in the 1904 and the first war world might have been the factors that stopped this wave of mergers. Us deregulation of oil exports could hurt north american. One year ago, the united states government froze all property of the central bank of iran and other iranian financial institutions within the.
Several explanations have been put forth to explain the heightened merger activity. The idea that resources might be more of an economic curse than a blessing began to emerge in debates in the 1950s and 1960s about the economic problems of low and middleincome countries. The german people suffered, and this led a lunatic to power, and as soon as germany was strong enough she stroke back. The most important input in the production of gasoline is crude oil. This is important for industries such as pharmaceuticals which require a lot of investment. When oil causes war, was published in 20 by cambridge university press. Mergers are considered as horizontal when the two companies are in direct. Oil prices are positively correlated with dispute behavior in oil states r 0. Muhammad ibn ali assenussi 17871859, the founder of the order and a proponent of sufism, was born in algeria near mostaganem and was named alsenussi after a venerated muslim teacher. The net effect depends critically on its domestic politics, especially the preferences of its leader. As oil prices rebounded and growth took off, this was rewarded in equity markets.
The industries involved in such consolidations were mostly the steel oil, railroad, telephone and mining. The major cost variables are the price of crude oil and a persian gulf war dummy. The purpose is to delineate how and why a merger decision should be made. When oil causes war, jeff colgan provides an indispensable starting point.
Jeff colgan 2010, 2011, 20 has highlighted that global oil consumption is a significant cause of international war. Except for a series of megadeals, 2019 was a slow year for oil and gas mergers and acquisitions. He studied at a madrasa in fez, then traveled in the sahara preaching a purifying reform of the faith in tunisia and tripoli, gaining many. This paper discusses the legal aspects of mergers in the oil industry. Colgan is assistant professor in the school of international service at american university and author of petroaggression. The second world war for oil cannot be considered as an independent event from the first world war for oil. C explain the issues surrounding significant events of the texas revolution, including the battle of gonzales, william b. The course focuses on mergers and acquisitions in the context of private as well as publicly traded companies. Mergers and acquisitions in the petroleum industry onepetro. The energy sector has been battered for nearly a year, but amid the wreckage royal dutch shell is buying bg group in the biggest oil gas deal since exxon bought mobil and easily the largest. He was a member of the walad sidi abdalla tribe, and was a sharif. Thus the combustable combination of revolutionaries like khomeinei, qadhafi, and saddam hussein and a dependency on petroleum for more than 10% of gdp are the key ingredients for war proneness.
Pdf oil, resource wars, and the islamic state researchgate. Oil prices fell by more than 50% in the past 6 months the last major drop in the late 1990s created todays super majors. Using boko haram activities in the lake chad region, i question the conventional arguments linking religion to the root cause of terrorism. Under certain conditions, oil income enables aggressive leaders to eliminate political constraints, reduce domestic accountability, and take their countries to war colgan, 20, p. Countries do no go to war to win control of oil supplies, colgan hussein, and. Pdf throughout the 1990s, many armed groups have relied on revenues. America has the unfortunate habit of getting into war with oil. The biggest mergers and acquisitions in oil stocks the. I argue that there is an economic dimension of boko haram terrorism, which is based on two interrelated indicators. It provides sophisticated analyses of contemporary, theoretical. When oil causes war, i explore the relationship between oil exporting petrostates defined by having oil exports of at least 10 percent of gdp and aggressive foreign policy.
Further, the expanded breadth of the combined companys portfolioboth geographically and in resource typeshelped extend reach, which facilitated growth and diversified the risk of megaprojects. Jeff colgan is assistant professor in the school of international service at american university in washington, d. This is a well researched book with both theoretical chapters and case studies that probe the details of petroaggression decisions. In this type of aggressivesymbioticrelationship, oppos. He has published work in international organization, foreign affairs, world politics, international security and elsewhere. On sunday, the wall street journal reported that the us house of representatives could vote in september on lifting the ban on us crude oil exports. According to north, the financial climate in the u. When oil causes war, in journal of peace research 506. When oil causes war, colgan finds that petrostates countries where revenue from oil exports exceeds 10 percent of gdp are twice.