Column 200: Sovereignty in the Age of Oil

Column 200: Sovereignty in the Age of Oil

The series began on May 26, 2017 as Oil and gas – The New Economic Horizon and was expected to run for twenty-five weeks. As the research deepened, it became Road to First Oil – Every Man, Woman and Child Must Become Oil-Minded, borrowing the Daily Chronicle exhortation brought to my attention by historian Dr. Nigel Westmaas. Twenty-five columns became fifty, then one hundred, and this is number 200. I can feel cramp setting in.