Preface.

Acknowledgments.

PART ONE: FROM BEDOUIN TO BOURGEOISIE.

1. The Birth of a Nation.

2. The History of Major Saudi Arabian Oil Discoveries.

3. Saudi Arabia’s Road to Oil Market Dominance.

4. The Veil of Secrecy over Saudi Oil Reserves and Production.

PART TWO: THE EBBING OF THE SAUDI OIL BOUNTY.

5. Saudi Aramco.

6. Oil Is Not Just Another Commodity.

PART THREE: GIANTS AT THE TIPPING POINT.

7. Ghawar, the King of Oilfields.

8. The Second-Tier Oilfields.

9. The Best of the Rest.

10. Coming Up Empty in New Exploration.

11. Turning to Natural Gas.

PART FOUR: TWILIGHT IN THE DESERT.

12. Saudi Oil Reserves Claims in Doubt.

13. Facing the Inevitable.

14. Reading Between the Lines of the Latest News from Aramco.

15 Aramco Invokes “Fuzzy Logic” to Manage the Future of Saudi Oil.

16 In Search of Crisper Truths among the Confident Saudi Claims.

17 Aftermath.

Appendix A: Methodology.

Appendix B: Supporting Technical Data.

Appendix C: The 1974 and 1979 Senate Hearings.

Notes.

Bibliography.

Index.