Detailed Notes on State-Run Oil Companies: A Chat with Dr. Mark Thurber of Stanford University

On this edition of our show, we speak by phone with Dr. Mark Thurber of Stanford University, who will give a lecture this evening (Monday the 28th) at 7pm in the Tyrrell Hall Auditorium on the University of Tulsa campus. His address is presented as part of the TU Collins College of Business Energy Lecture Series; Dr. Thurber will be discussing state-run oil companies, which actually control most of the world's oil production. A well-respected expert whose scholarship has focused on the role of state-owned firms in the most crucial energy markets around the globe, Dr. Thurber is also the editor of "Oil and Governance: State-Owned Enterprises and the World Energy Supply." You can learn more about his upcoming talk here at TU at this link.