"All, without any exception, are in decline--some in terminal decline, " says Mehdi Varzi, a prerevolutionary NIOC official who now runs the consulting firm Varzi Energy in London.
FORBES: Running Dry
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Indeed, as a student of France's troubled history and an observer of its politics for over half a century, I suspect France is entering a prerevolutionary phase and that a major convulsion is just over the horizon.