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When we think of oil, the part of the world that comes to mind first may be the Middle East. But (36) development takes place worldwide.
Nigeria, for example, is the largest oil producer in Africa and the eleventh largest producer in the world. Russia is the world’s second largest (37) of oil and the top (38) of natural gas.
In 1960, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela (39) the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries. Its (40) may have reached a high point during the oil crisis (41) to the 1973 Arab-Israeli war. Arab oil producers (42) the United States, Western Europe and Japan because of their support for Israel. Since then, new discoveries and increased production in areas including countries of the former Soviet Union have provided more oil. Today OPEC has twelve members. The newest is Angola, which joined in 2007.
High oil prices have brought new attention to OPEC. Its members produce about forty percent of the world’s oil. But two of the world’s top three oil exporters, Russia and Norway, are not OPEC members.
National oil companies are (43) to control about eighty percent of the world’s oil supply. (44) .
President Hugo Chavez has moved to nationalize oil operations in Venezuela. And (45) held by Yukos. Yukos was Russia’s largest private company, (46) .