Entity page · built from email

OPEC

Government entities

Assembled from 25 messages that mention OPEC across eight Enron mailboxes, Aug 2000 – Dec 2001. Every line below was read out of correspondence, and every line opens the message it came from.

OPEC is the oil cartel whose production and price decisions Enron tracked as a driver of energy markets and of political blame for US prices.

What the brain knew on
Jul 1999Jul 2000Jul 2001Jun 2002

Drag it, or use the arrow keys for one step at a time and Home and End for the ends. Durable facts accumulate; the ones that were only true for a while appear, then expire with a reason attached.

What we know

The consolidated view, as it stood on the selected date.

Contents

Sections in the order they mattered to the company. The counts follow the date you have selected.

Two kinds of fact

A brain that only keeps what is permanently true is a reference book, and it would have been no use to anyone at Enron in November 2001. A brain that keeps everything is the inbox again. The distinction that matters is not true versus false. It is durable versus current. A current fact carries what would end it. Sometimes the message gives a date and the page shows it; more often it gives only the condition, and the page says that instead of inventing a date the mail never stated.

25messages across eight mailboxes name it
21of those are cited as a source somewhere on this page
21facts still worth knowing to someone who was not there
23were worth knowing at one point, and the brain records what makes them expire