1980s: The Seven Sisters

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IN 1980s the seven sisters (shell,exxon mobil and all) were set aside and new seven sister replaced those companies. What was the raeson behind this shift?

Old seven sisters:
1. Anglo persian oil company (United Kingdom)
2. Gulf Oil (United states).
3. Royal dutch shell (Netherlands/United kingdom).
4. Standard oil of California (United states).
5. Standard oil of New Jersey (United states)
6. Standard oil company of New York (United states)
7. Texaco (United states).

New seven sisters:
1. Saudi Aramco (Saudi Arabia)
2. China national petroleum corporation. (China)
3. Gazprom (Russia)
4. National Iranian oil company (Iran)
5. Petrobras (Brazil)
6. PDVSA (Venezuela)
7. Petronas. (Malaysia)

The old seven sisters satated above portarayed immense power as they acted as a key player as no government could be formed until it provoded protection to the seven sisters and worked according to their
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Iranians were not allowed the access to accounts but the royalties paid were enough to satisfy iranian monarch or at least the shah and bought his silence.
The seven sisters ruled over middle east or its oil.

Roosevelt met king of Arabia and came into a verbal contract with him for opening the way in arabia for u.s oil companies in 1936. In 1936 arabia sold its oil rights to Americans.
Aramco was founded which was a consortium combined of exon, chevron, mobill and texico.

But the aramco cannot make any laws and have to follow the laws made by the consortium companies

What was good for seven sisters was good for america.

In 1951 the first revolt against british petroleum

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