An oil clique is a social clique or a network of powerful individuals and institutions that are involved in the petroleum industry. Important examples include China's oil clique[1][2][3][4][5][6] and Texas' oil clique.[7]

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  1. ^ Linda Yueh (7 July 2011). Enterprising China: Business, Economic, and Legal Developments Since 1979. Oxford University Press. pp. 156–. ISBN 978-0-19-920583-7.
  2. ^ Tadahisa Ando (1981). China's primary energy production in the 1980s: potentials and constraints. East-West Resource Systems Institute, East-West Center.
  3. ^ Xuanli Liao (2006). Chinese Foreign Policy Think Tanks and China's Policy Towards Japan. Chinese University Press. pp. 353–. ISBN 978-962-996-266-1.
  4. ^ Grace Ng (2012-11-14). "Beginning of the end of China's 'oil clique'". The Straits Times.
  5. ^ Jeremy Page; Brian Spegele; Wayne Ma (2013-09-05). "Powerful Oil Clique at Center of Chinese Probes". Wall Street Journal.
  6. ^ William Tsang (2013-10-04). "The Fall of the 'Oil Clique' (石油幫涉貪落馬 習李應反腐改革並進)". MingPao.
  7. ^ David L. Shambaugh (1993). Beautiful Imperialist: China Perceives America, 1972–1990. Princeton University Press. pp. 179–. ISBN 978-0-691-02486-8.