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170. Paper Prepared by the National Security Council Staff

velopment which can make a significant contribution to world oil supply and exert a restraining force on oil prices. Within a decade, Mexico will be at the forefront of the world’s oil nations, producing at a level double the projected production of Nigeria, Kuwait and Libya and probably on a par with Iran. Mexico’s announced “potential reserves”—160 billion barrels of oil plus gas equivalent to an additional 60 billion barrels—far exceed those of other nations except Saudi Arabia. These new discoveries substantially alter opportunities for Mexican development and offer the United States an im…

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Source	Foreign Relations of the United States
Collection	International records
Kind	Document
Publisher	US Department of State, Office of the Historian
Date	1978-11-22
Type	diplomatic document (FRUS)
Details	Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969–1976, Volume XXXVII, Energy Crisis, 1974–1980
Found at	https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1969-76v37/d170
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Record ID	`frus:frus1969-76v37/d170`

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170. Paper Prepared by the National Security Council Staff. Foreign Relations of the United States, 1978. Vero Archive, record frus:frus1969-76v37/d170.