Oil for Britain: The United Kingdom and the Remaking of the International Oil Industry, 1957-1988

While famous for its liberal policy towards oil and gas production, both before and after the discovery of North Sea oil and gas, the period from 1957-1988 actually saw the UK respond to shifts in power from the major oil companies to the oil-producing states, many of them in OPEC, by building up its competency regarding oil matters.

Jonathan R. Kuiken is an associate professor of History at Wilkes University. He is the author of articles such as ＂Ignoring, countering and undercutting OPEC: Britain, BP, Shell and the shifting global energy order, 1960-1986＂ (2020) and ’La persistence d’empire? Le rôle des compagnies pétrolières britanniques en Afrique postcoloniale’ (2017). He received his doctorate from Boston College in 2013.