The Historical Roots of Oil Price Monopoly and Its Exploration in the Arabian Gulf
Bibliographic record
Abstract
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 machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.009 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.000 |
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.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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".