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Record W7128467954 · doi:10.64903/1480-6800-28.1.78

The Historical Roots of Oil Price Monopoly and Its Exploration in the Arabian Gulf

2025· article· W7128467954 on OpenAlexvenueaboutno aff
Ali Maajal Khalaf, Ali Najah Mohammed Hussein, H. H. Jasim, Abdulsattar Jaeger Abd Khalaf

Bibliographic record

VenueArab world geographer · 2025
Typearticle
Language
FieldEconomics, Econometrics and Finance
TopicNatural Resources and Economic Development
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMonopolyCornerstoneMonopolistic competitionSecrecyOil pricePetroleum industryOil supplyQuarter (Canadian coin)

Abstract

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This research study is grounded in historic perspective, aimed at scrutinizing the oil agreements that international oil companies, operated in the Arabian Gulf exploited to serve their interests. One of the most important objectives is to reveal the secrecy of the agreements and the parties involved, which serve their monopolistic interests without concern for the rights of those countries and their peoples. The Achnacarry Agreement, signed in Scotland in September 1928, is one of the most significant oil agreements that remained secret for nearly 25 years, earning the title of “the Oil Constitution.” Interestingly, such agreement remained hidden from the public for a quarter of a century. This led to dangerous oil policies under which global oil extraction, production, distribution, marketing, and pricing were monopolized, at the expense of the wealth of nations and their governments. Arguably the Achnacarry Agreement eventually became a cornerstone of oil monopolies for many years ahead, allowing for the expansion of its base by the inclusion of over 15 international companies.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.683
Threshold uncertainty score0.918

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.002
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.020
GPT teacher head0.216
Teacher spread0.196 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2025
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