PART I: FROM BEDOUIN TO BOURGEOISIE. Chapter 1: The Birth of a Nation: A Century of Extraordinary Change and Economic Challenges. Chapter 2: The History of Major Saudi Arabian Oil Discoveries. Chapter 3: Saudi Arabia's Road To Oil Market Dominance. Chapter 4: The Veil of Secrecy Over Saudi Oil Reserves & Production. PART II: THE END OF THE SAUDI OIL BOUNTY. Chapter 5: Saudi Aramco: A Company that Produces More Oil than Any Country. Chapter 6: Oil Is Not Just Another Commodity: A Primer on the Science of Producing Oil and Gas. PART III: A FIELD-BY-FIELD ASSESSMENT OF 12 SAUDI OILFIELDS. Chapter 7: Giants At The Tipping Point - An Assessment of 12 Saudi Oilfields. Chapter 8: The Second-Tier Oilfields: Abqaiq, Safaniya, and Berri. Chapter 9: The Best of the Rest: The Lower-Production Oilfields. Chapter 10: Coming Up Empty in New Exploration. Chapter 11: Turning to Natural Gas. PART IV: TWILIGHT IN THE DESERT. Chapter 12: Saudi Oil Reserves Claims in Doubt. Chapter 13: Facing the Inevitable: The Dimming Future of Saudi Arabia's Oil Industry. Chapter 14: Reading Between the Lines of the Latest News from Saudi Aramco: All Is Not Well in the Oilfields of Saudi Arabia. Chapter 15: Entering the Realm of "Fuzzy Logic" to Manage the Future of Saudi Oil. Chapter 16: Conclusion: In Search of Crisper Answers to Saudi Arabia's Confident Claims. Aftermath. Appendix A: Methodology: Obtaining Accurate and Reliable Information on Saudi Oil Fields from the Society of Petroleum Engineers. Appendix B: Technical Graphs and Tables. Appendix C: Recently released 1974 U.S. Senate hearings. Endnotes: Sources , Bibliographical References, and Index
