Brown Bag Lunch & Lecture / Documentary Video: "Secrets of the Seven Sisters"

Throughout modern history, since the discovery of oil, world leaders have sought to control the balance of power. "Seven Sisters" was a common term for the seven multinational oil companies of the "Consortium for Iran" cartel, which dominated the global petroleum industry from the mid-1940s to the mid-1970s. Alluding to the seven mythological Pleiades sisters fathered by the titan Atlas, the business usage was popularized in the 1950s. ”The Secrets of the Seven Sisters” is a 48-minute documentary video that reveals a much deeper understanding for the cause of past and ongoing wars in the middle east. Preceding the 1973 oil crisis, the Seven Sisters controlled around 85 percent of the world's petroleum reserves. Since then, industry dominance has shifted to the OPEC cartel and state-owned oil and gas companies in emerging-market economies.