The Economist reported on August 4, 1990, that Iraq's invasion of Kuwait gave Iraq control of twenty percent of the world's known oil reserves, allowing Iraq to rival Saudi Arabia as OPEC's 'swing' producer.

Authors

• Person: Douglas Kellner Organization: UCLA
  The Persian Gulf TV War by Douglas Kellner (http://www.gseis.ucla ...

Sources

• The Persian Gulf TV War by Douglas Kellner (http://www.gseis.ucla ... pages.gseis.ucla.edu Douglas Kellner · UCLA via serper

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• Saudi Arabia location
• Iraq entity
• Kuwait entity
• OPEC entity