Why was OPEC formed? Who were the Seven Sisters that ruled the world? How were oil prices determined in the past? And How are they determined now? Will oil and gas prices decrease more anytime soon? 

For answers to these questions, I spoke with Ms. Jacqueline L. Weaver, a Professor of Law at the University of Houston Law Center. Her teaching and research interests cover oil and gas law, energy law and policy, international petroleum, and environmental and natural resources law. She has lectured on topics in international petroleum transactions in Africa, Kazakhstan, Lisbon, China and Bangkok.

She is a co-author of Smith and Weaver, The Texas Law of Oil and Gas, and a national casebook titled Energy, Economics and the Environment; as well as another casebook titled International Petroleum Transactions and the treatise International Petroleum Exploration & Exploitation Agreement. She has written articles on offshore safety after the Macondo disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, energy markets, sustainable development in the international petroleum industry, comparative unitization laws, energy policy, and traditional oil and gas law topics.

She worked as an economist in the Corporate Planning Department of Exxon Co. USA before joining the University of Houston Law Center.

To learn more about Professor Weaver, you can visit her academic homepage.

In addition, below is a link to another interesting episode:

S1E26: Is Green Energy Truly Green?, Prof. KK DuVivier

I hope you enjoy these episodes.

Adel

Host of the History Behind News podcast

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