“Oil remains fundamentally a government business. While many regions of the world offer great oil opportunities, the Middle East with two thirds of the world's oil and the lowest cost, is still where the prize ultimately lies, even though companies are anxious for greater access there, progress continues to be slow.”

— Dick Cheney

Speech delivered at the London Institute of Petroleum http://web.archive.org/web/20000414054656/http://www.petroleum.co.uk/speeches.htm, 1999
1990s

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