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League of Arab States First Petroleum Congress, Cairo, April 1959: Arab Petroleum Guide WITH General Secretariat Invitation to the Dinner at the Hunting Club, Al Raqi on 22 April 1959
Salman, Engineer Mohamed; El Sayed Abd El Khalek Hassouna; Farouk El-Bakary; Aramco; Kuwait Oil Company; et al
Language: English
Published by League of Arab States, Cairo, 1959
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Add to basketSoft cover. Condition: Good. Two items: Guide in original b/w printed wraps 21x28cm. 80, 84pp English and Arabic texts with many b/w photos, drawings, maps, and related adverts throughout. Laid in is an invitation card issued by the Congress' General Secretariat printed in Arabic with logo, 175x117mm, inviting Nabil Al-Zahairy t…o the Dinner hosted at the Hunting Club, Al Raqi, at 8PM on 22 April 1959. Guide good, creased, with tears and minor loss to the spine; invitation card good with centre-fold. The Arab League's Petroleum Affairs Department established the Arab Petroleum Congress as its forum to unify Arab oil policy. Iraqi engineer Mohammed Salman headed the Department, and was Secretary General of the Congress. The First Congress hosted in Cairo during 16-23 April 1959, involved Arab officials, Iran and Venezuela. In addition to valuable technical outputs, it laid the foundations for OPEC through the now famous meetings at Maadi Yacht Club attended by oil ministers Abdullah Tariki of Saudi Arabia, Juan Pablo Perez Alfonzo of Venezuela, the influential journalist Wanda Jablonski, among others. This keynote work, prepared by a Committee led by Farouk El-Bakary, opens with statements by Salman and Arab League Secretary General Abdel Khalek Hassouna, calling for a unified policy to maximise oil's benefits by developing local industry, and reducing dependence on crude oil revenues alone (pp4-5). It lists Congress and Exhibition staff, authorities and companies by country, for Iraq, Saudi Arabia, UAR, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain and Yemen. The rest includes national petroleum sector profiles of varying focus and length. Iraq's for example is limited to state administration, while Saudi's describes Aramco's activities, staff, training, primary schools, scholarships, home loans, medical programme etc. And Kuwait's describes the history, activities and prospects of the Kuwait Oil Company, with profiles of the American Independent Oil Company and Arabian Oil Company. Other contributors include Phillips, Aero Service Corporation, C. Deilmann Bergbau, Deutz, and others promoting their services. A map shows Arabian oilfields. Photos include portraits of Salman and Hassouna, company personnel, activities and installations. This would have been issued to delegates, and is very rare with Worldcat locating only 4 to the American University in Cairo, Harvard, Stanford, and Exxon Mobil (OCLC 81152248).
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Congress Directory - League of Arab States Second Petroleum Congress, Beirut, October 1960
Salman, Engineer Mohamed; Sayed Addardiri Ahmed Ismail; HE Suleiman Elali; et al
Published by League of Arab States, Beirut, 1960
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Add to basketSoft cover. Condition: Fair. A compilation of proceedings, keynote speeches, resolutions and participant list from the Second Congress. Original b/w printed wraps 22x29cm. 64pp English and 55pp Arabic text. Fair, tanned and creased with loss to lower corners of first few leaves (not affecting text) and tears with a little loss t…o spine. Extremely rare, with Worldcat recording 2 locations (UC Berkeley; University of California); not recorded on Library Hub. The Arab League hosted the First Congress in Cairo in 1959 as means to unify oil policy among its members in the wake of unilateral price cuts by the oil companies in February 1959 made without consulting the producing countries. This Congress called for oil producing countries to receive a greater share of oil company profits, the establishment of national oil companies, policy development, experience sharing, pricing, and expanded refining capacity. In informal meetings, it also led to the creation of OPEC led by Saudi and Venezuelan oil ministers Tariki and Alfonzo through the Maadi Pact. Their meeting had been facilitated by journalist Wanda Jablonski. In spite of her warnings about growing hostility towards the West, the oil companies again cut the price of Middle East crude in August 1960 ahead of the Second Congress, without consultation. This led Tariki, Alfonzo, and the Iraqi PM Abd al-Karim Qasim to call the Baghdad Conference in September, at which Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela planned their response. Building on the Maadi Pact, they formed OPEC to unify policy, challenge companies on price, reverse the price cut, regulate production to stabilise prices, and remain united should oil companies target any one of them with sanctions. Echoing this, among the resolutions of this Second Congress were the upholding of Arab country demands to improve the terms of the oil concessions; disavowal of the right of oil companies to reduce prices without consultation; and promotion of locally produced technical, economic and legal studies. This document includes key recommendations from the First Congress, details on the organisation and proceedings of the Second Congress, its Resolutions, and statements by senior organising officials including Mohamed Salman (Congress Secretary General), HE Suleiman Elali (Congress Chair), Sayed Addadiri Ahmed Ismail (Acting Secretary General of the Arab League), and Lebanon's Acting Prime Minister, and Minister of National Economy. The Directory includes the names and addresses of participants from Arab countries (Algeria, Bahrain, Indonesia, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, UAR, Yemen), the Arab League, other oil producers (Indonesia, Turkey, Venezuela), and other countries and enterprises. The delegations included government officials and senior and technical oil company staff.
