Daniel Yergin wrote The Prize, which was published over 20 years ago and won a Pulitzer Prize. It is one of the best books you will ever read and is worth the time for its 800+ pages and endnotes. Yergin wrote an interesting Op Ed published recently by the WSJ and it is worth your time to read it too.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904060604576572552998674340.html?mod=ITP_review_0
Interesting stuff.....Thanks for posting it!