This paper forcuses on the Caucasus and Central Asian region as an oil producer of considerable geo-strategic importance. Looking first at the region's history and the strategic role that oil has played since the nineteenth century, the paper goes on to identify the major locations of the region's oil and the factors affecting oil development, exploitation and export.

Adelphi Paper 300. "Prospects for oil exploitation and export in the Caspian basin."- cover page.

Introduction--I. This History of Oil in the Region--II. Oil Exploitation and Export--III. The Major Prospects--IV. Export Options--V. Prospects for the Region--Conclusion.