Chapter
Oil companies and governments in latin america 1890—1927
2 Retrenchment and concentration 1928-41
Achnacarry and the slump 1928—34
The oil-importing countries
Diplomatic pressures in the 1930s
Corporate stability and economic nationalism 1928—41
3 The making of the post-war oil world 1942-55
The oil companies, washington and venezuela 1941—8
Other latin american countries
State oil companies and US policy
The USA and the companies in post-war latin america
4 The major companies in retreat 1955—70
Consequences within latin america
The position of washington
The expansion of state enterprise in latin america 1955—70
5 The oil market revolution and its consequences for Latin America 1971-9
Latin america's oil exporters
Other latin american producing countries
Oil consumption and the downstream sector
International diplomacy and latin american oil and gas
6 Latin America in the twentieth-century oil system
Part II: The major expropriations *
7 Politics and the concession contract
8 Argentina: YPF, Yrigoyen and the 1935 oil law
The argentine oil commission 1907—22
The private oil companies 1907-28
The developing situation 1926—30
The domestic market and the Salt a question
The continuity of argentine policy
9 Some nationalisations of the 1930s: Chile, Uruguay, Bolivia
10 Cardenas and the Mexican oil nationalisation
The constitution and its consequences
The position of the companies
The emergence of cardenas
Moves towards confrontation
Cardenas and the companies
11 The formation of Petrobras
Oil and national security 1930-41
Oil and economic development 1941—8
Oil and political advantage 1948-53
Oil policy and oil nationalism in brazil
12 The nationalisation of the IPC in Peru
The IPC in Peru: from exporter to supplier of the domestic market
Political developments 1959—63
The act of talara and after
The IPC and peruvian nationalism
13 The nationalisation of Gulf Oil in Bolivia 1969
The barrientos regime 1964-9
Siles, ovando and the nationalisation
Gulf oil and the bolivian state
14 Oil politics in ecuador 1972—6
Expansion and renegotiation 1969—73
Ecuador under siege 1974—5
1976: the consortium splits
15 The nationalisation of oil in venezuela
The betancourt government 1958—63
The leoni administration 1963—8
Caldera, the crisis and OPEC 1969-73
The nationalisation 1974-5
16 Oil companies and governments in twentieth-century latin america
Part III: The state oil companies
17 Pemex in mexican politics 1938-79
Pemex in formation 1938-50
The bermiidez years 1950-8
Progress and problems 1958—73
Reyes Heroles returned to this theme in 1968:
The transformation of pemex 1973—9
18 The development of petrobras: oil company to conglomerate?
Petrobras 1954-61: the enterprise matures
Politics and crisis 1961—4
Consolidation and expansion 1964—73
Petrobras and its critics 1974-79
19 YPF 1932—79: public enterprise or bureaucracy?
The frondizi period 1958-62
Illia and the cancellation of the contracts 1963—6
Ongania and after: 1966-79
20 Petroperu 1968—80: achievements and hard lessons
The early politics of petroperii 1969-71
Exploration of the selva 1970-4
Petroperu in crisis 1975-9
Occidental petroleum and the private sector
21 YPFB and the development of oil in Bolivia
The emergence of YPFB 1936-52
The rise and decline of YPFB 1952-69
Expansion and its aftermath 1969-78
22 Petroven: the birth of a giant
Petroven's economic activity 1976—80
Petroven and the foreign companies
Political organisation of petroven
23 State oil companies in latin america
Technology, pricing and investment
24 Concluding reflections