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Big Ditch for Oil. The Meaning of the Suez Crisis
Kimche, Jon | August 25, 1956 issue

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For by 1956 the Suez Canal had become as much of the Middle Eastern oil complex feeding Western Europe as were Kuweit, Iraq, Babrein, Qatar and, to a lesser extent, Saudi Arabia--the countries producing the oil. Through the canal passed more oil than the total combined output of Kuweit and Iraq, the two largest suppliers of Western Europe. The basic consideration therefore in any discussion on the general dependence of Western Europe on the Suez Canal is that this cannot be isolated from the general dependence on Middle East oil.

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OIL shale reserves; SUEZ Canal (Egypt); MIDDLE East; SAUDI Arabia; IRAQ; EUROPE, Western
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