The expansion of capital, oil scarcity and the contradiction of space -- Contradictions of capitalist accumulation: inter-capitalist competition, the production of raw material and the contradiction of space -- Imperialism and the geographical contradictions of monopoly capital -- Oil in the development and decline of the Soviet Union -- Geographical contradictions of state and capital in the development of Russian oil: competition for Russia, competition with Russia -- Geographical contradictions of Iranian oil: capital versus the law.