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Baku supplied half the world's oil, making Azerbaijan's fields a prize Nazi Germany craved, a WWII lesson on energy and
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From a 1761 pearling town to a sovereign wealth fund managing $697 billion, Abu Dhabi's 1958 oil discovery transformed i
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Unlike most petrostates, Norway turned oil into a $1.3T sovereign wealth fund worth $245,000 per resident while preservi