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*January: First emergency Crude Oil Buy-Sell Program allocations. *January 16: Shah leaves Iran on vacation, never to return. Bakhtiar government established by the Shah to preside until unrest subsides. *January 20: Saudi Arabia announces drastic cut in first-quarter production. 9.5 MMBD ceiling imposed. Although actual cuts never reach announced levels, spot prices of Middle East light crudes rise 36 percent. *January 20: One million Iranians march in Tehran in a show of support for the exiled Ayatollah Khomeini, fundamentalist Muslim leader. *February 12: Bakhtiar resigns as prime minister of Iran after losing support of the military. *March 5: Iran resumes petroleum exports. *Spring: Gasoline shortage/world oil glut. *March 26: OPEC makes full 14.5 percent price increase for 1979 effective on April 1. Marker crude raised to $14.56 per barrel. *May: United States Department of Energy (DOE) announces $5 per barrel entitlement to importers of heating oil. Saudi Arabia announces intention to increase direct sales and to sell less through Aramco. Both announcements send prices higher. *June 1: Phased oil price decontrol begins. Involves gradual 28 month increase of "old" oil price ceilings, and slower rate of increase of "new" oil price ceilings. *June 26–28: OPEC raises prices average of 15 percent, effective July 1. *October: Buy-Sell Program sales average more than from October 1979 through March 1980 - highest level since February 1976, due to emergency allocations. *October: Canada eliminates light crude oil exports to U.S. refiners, except for those exports required by operational constraints of pipelines. *November 4: Iran takes western hostages. *November 12: U.S. President Jimmy Carter orders cessation of Iranian imports to U.S. *November 15: Iran cancels all contracts with U.S. oil companies. *December 13: Saudi Arabia raises marker crude price to $24 per barrel. |- | width="30%" align="center" | previous year: 1978 world oil market chronology | width="40%" align="center" | This article is part of the Chronology of world oil market events (1970-2005) | width="30%" align="center" | following year: 1980 world oil market chronology |- 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「1979 world oil market chronology」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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