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<blockquote data-quote="Jabari Lamar" data-source="post: 263092" data-attributes="member: 2208">Right, and that&#039;s why on Dallas they had &quot;the cartel&quot; which was an unofficial alliance of the biggest independent oil companies who, when needed, would collaborate on various deals that, by themselves, they wouldn&#039;t have had the resources to compete with the majors.I believe Westar was meant to be separate from the Seven Sisters. IIRC there was a scene in one of the later seasons when Bobby wanted to sell Ewing Oil and get out of the oil business altogether, and he was meeting with Harv Smithfield about potential buyers, and Harv first mentioned that Westar had made an offer, but Bobby didn&#039;t really want to sell to them because of their history with McKay, and then Harv said the Seven Sisters had made an offer too (I guess they would&#039;ve bought it collectively?) but on the condition that Bobby remain as President and Bobby didn&#039;t wan to do that either. And that&#039;s when he ended up selling it to Genie instead.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jabari Lamar, post: 263092, member: 2208"] Right, and that's why on Dallas they had "the cartel" which was an unofficial alliance of the biggest independent oil companies who, when needed, would collaborate on various deals that, by themselves, they wouldn't have had the resources to compete with the majors. I believe Westar was meant to be separate from the Seven Sisters. IIRC there was a scene in one of the later seasons when Bobby wanted to sell Ewing Oil and get out of the oil business altogether, and he was meeting with Harv Smithfield about potential buyers, and Harv first mentioned that Westar had made an offer, but Bobby didn't really want to sell to them because of their history with McKay, and then Harv said the Seven Sisters had made an offer too (I guess they would've bought it collectively?) but on the condition that Bobby remain as President and Bobby didn't wan to do that either. And that's when he ended up selling it to Genie instead. [/QUOTE]

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