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By creating huge national oil companies to manage that resource, oil chicagoculture producing governments would eventually discover how complicated and expensive effectively managing that resource really is. Only one of OPEC's big state-owned oil companies chicagoculture is involved extensively in exploration and production outside their home countries (Algeria's Sonatrach is heavily involved in liquefied natural gas projects across the Americas). All of them need the technological expertise chicagoculture of the majors, whether it's Qatar Petroleum's joint venture with ExxonMobil to expand the RasGas and QatarGas liquefied natural gas terminals, Aramco's joint venture with Sinopec and Rosneft to develop natural gas in the Empty Quarter, or Shell and ChevronTexaco's extensive involvement in developing the tar sands deposits of Venezuela's Orinoco Belt. The great emotional issue for most oil producing states is upstream investment – the actual poking of holes in the ground. This resource is considered a hard-fought national patrimony in the way many people in this country view the Panama Canal – very emotive and not terribly rational.
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