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Jablonski began as the oil editor at the ''[[Journal of Commerce]]'', where she made her mark with a 1948 interview in [[Caracas]] with [[Juan Pablo Pérez Alfonso]], then the [[Venezuela]]n oil minister, which cleverly synthesized the developing nations' viewpoint, in those days rarely heard in the Western hemisphere.<ref>{{Cite web|last1=Ivanovich|first1=David|last2=Bureau|first2=Copyright 2008 Houston Chronicle Washington|date=2008-08-26|title=Moneymakers: Book about oil writer details unusual life|url=https://www.chron.com/business/energy/article/Moneymakers-Book-about-oil-writer-details-1770355.php|access-date=2020-08-26|website=Houston Chronicle}}</ref> She moved to ''[[Petroleum Week]]'' journal in 1954 and cemented her reputation, speaking on equal terms with oil ministers and company chairmen. A rare woman in a man's world, she was known throughout the oil industry simply as "Wanda".<ref name=":1">{{Cite journal|last=Slavin|first=Barbara|date=2009-03-10|title=Queen of the Oil Club: The Intrepid Wanda Jablonski and the Power of Information (review)|url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/258435|journal=The Middle East Journal|language=en|volume=63|issue=1|pages=152–153|issn=1940-3461}}</ref>
She is credited with arranging the 1959 Cairo meeting where [[Abdullah Tariki]], [[Juan Pablo Pérez Alfonso]], and other oil ministers of Middle East signed the "Gentleman’s Agreement," a precursor of [[Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries]] (OPEC), the international organization whose mission is to coordinate the policies of the oil-producing countries.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-01-17|title=Revisiting OPEC's Democratic Roots in the Age of Climate Emergency|url=https://www.e-ir.info/2020/01/17/revisiting-opecs-democratic-roots-in-the-age-of-climate-emergency/|access-date=2020-08-26|website=E-International Relations|language=en-US}}</ref> In 1960, Jablonski reported to oil company executives that there was a marked hostility toward the West and a growing outcry against "absentee landlordism" in the Middle East.<ref name=":2">{{Cite book|last=Yergin|first=Daniel|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=C6pGQvVqNAoC&q=%22absentee+landlordism%22+in+the+Middle+East+jablonski&pg=PT534|title=The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power|date=2012-09-11|publisher=Simon and Schuster|isbn=978-1-4711-0475-6|language=en}}</ref> "From offices in London, New York, and Pittsburgh, top executives of oil companies were controlling destinies of Middle East oil-producing states."<ref name=":2" />{{rp|503}} Ignoring her warning, in August 1960, the major oil companies unilaterally reduced the prices that were used to calculate how much revenue the producing countries received. As a direct result, in September 1960, representatives from oil-producing countries met and formed OPEC.<ref name=":2" />
She then founded ''[[Petroleum Intelligence Weekly]]'' in 1961, the journal which came to be known as "the bible of the oil industry", and ran it until 1988.<ref name=":1" />
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