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COURT DOCUMENTS
Baker v. Exxon, No. 04.35182. United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, CV. 89-0095-HRH.
Carey Brothers Construction v. Teodoro Nguema Obiang, Los Angeles County Superior Court, West District, SC-075147.
David Fitzpatrick v. Kenneth P. Cohen, 10-CV-00054-GZS, United States District Court, District of Maine.
Dragan Deletic v. Sweetwater Management, Inc., Los Angeles County Superior Court, West District, SC-104745.
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. ExxonMobil Corporation, 30-6-cv-1732-K, United States District Court, Northern District of Texas.
Exxon Corp. v. Breezevale Ltd., 05-98-02050-CV, Court of Appeals of Texas, Fifth District, Dallas.
ExxonMobil Corp. v. United States of America, 3-00-cv-00815 M, United States District Court, Northern District of Texas.
ExxonMobil Corp. v. United States of America, 302-cv-0210 D, United States District Court, Northern District of Texas.
Frontera Resources Azerbaijan Corp. v. State Oil Company of the Azerbaijan Republic, 06 Civ. 1125 (RJH), United States District Court, Southern District of New York.
In Re Exxon Valdez Oil Spill, United States District Court, District of Alaska, A-89-095 (Civil Consolidated).
Jeff Alban et al. v. ExxonMobil Corp., 03-C-06-0101932OT, Baltimore County Circuit Court, Maryland.
John Doe I et al. v. ExxonMobil Corporation et al., 01-cv-01357, United States District Court for the District of Columbia.
Larry Bowoto et al. v. Chevron Corp. et al., C 99-02506 SI, United States District Court, Northern District of California.
Lily Panayotti v. Sweetwater Management, Inc., Los Angeles County Superior Court, West District, SC-099588.
Mobil Cerro Negro, Ltd. v. PDVSA Cerro Negro, S.A., 07-CV-11590, United States District Court, Southern District of New York.
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Pacific National Construction, Inc. v. Teodoro Nguema Obiang, Los Angeles County Superior Court, West District, SC-083725.
State of Alaska v. Exxon Corporation, and United States of America v. Exxon Corporation, A91-082 CIV and A91-083 CIV.
Suellen Everett Lundquist v. Sweetwater Management, Inc., Los Angeles County Superior Court, West District, SC-097988.
United States of America v. Arthur D. Seale, United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit, 20 F.3d 1279.
United States of America v. Irene J. Seale, United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit, 20 F.3d 1279.
United States of America v. Jason Edward Steph, United States District Court, Southern District of Texas, H-07-307.
Veronique Guillem v. Sweetwater Management, Inc., Los Angeles County Superior Court, West District, SC-104747.
Walter B. Meyer et al. v. Teodoro Nguema Obiang, Los Angeles County Superior Court, West District, SC-073545.
Willie J. Garry v. ExxonMobil Corp. et al., 03-0791 I/3, United States District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana.
Index
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Abacha, Sani, 461–62
Abakar, Abdelkarim, 359
Abayak company, 142
ABC, 502
Abdullah Bin Abdul-Aziz, King of Saudi Arabia, xv, 207, 209, 543
natural gas initiative of, 201–4, 207, 208
Abdullah, Zaini, 117
Abraham, Spencer, 90, 252, 321
Abu Dhabi, 62
Upper Zakum oil field of, 322–24
Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, 322
Abu Jack (Zackaria Ahmad), xv, 93, 96–99, 114, 118
Aceh war, 93–121, 221
atrocities and human rights violations in, 101–5, 107, 110–11, 114, 118, 120, 396–98, 400
Banda-Aceh meeting in, 115–17, 118
Bush (G. W.) administration and, 395–96, 400
di Tiro and, 96–97
ExxonMobil and, 98–102, 106, 107–11, 112–14, 116–17, 118, 143, 398–99
Gelbard’s diplomacy in, 99–102, 114, 115–20
John Doe lawsuit and, 120, 399–406, 621
Mobil and, 93–98, 102–3, 105, 106, 107, 143
peace accord in, 394–95
rebel extortion campaign in, 93, 97–98
T.N.I.-ExxonMobil relationship in, 107, 108–11
T.N.I.’s political power and, 107
U.S. role in, 112–14
acid rain, 536, 619
Afghanistan, 281, 293
Africa Command, U.S., 471, 473–74, 476
Africa Global, 145–46, 147
“African Oil: A Priority for U.S. National Security and African Development” (symposium), 174
Africa Partnership Station, 472, 516
Airlie Center conference, 343–47
Ait-Laoussine, Nordine, 573
Akpabio, Godswill, 465, 467
Alaska, 2–3, 6, 7, 10, 11–12, 32, 68, 70, 123, 124
BP pipeline disaster in, 612
natural gas deposits in, 201, 580
offshore drilling in, 605
Albers, Mark, 493
Alger Electric, 374, 376
Algeria, 52, 172, 197, 222, 293
Alien Tort Claims Act, 119, 401–2, 403
Allbritton, Joseph, 152
Allexson, Kevin, 620
Al Qaeda, 149, 172, 173, 174, 205, 207, 297, 400, 470
alternate energy, 436–50, 505, 535, 634n
battery technology and, 448–49
Bush (G. W.) administration and, 436–37
energy independence and, 439–41
alternate energy (cont.)
ethanol as, 445–48
ExxonMobil and, 437–38, 549
hybrid cars and, 449–50
hydrogen as, 437, 444–45
resource curse cycle and, 440
technological revolution and, 441–42, 444
Tillerson and, 442–43, 447, 450
2030 Outlook Review and, 442–43
U.S. oil dependency and, 435–37
Alvarez, Bernardo, 424
Alyeska Emergency Center, 632n
Alyeska Pipeline Service, 10–11
Amerada Hess, 142, 146, 147, 149, 283, 291, 294, 297, 299
see also Hess Corporation
American Chemical Council, 479, 491
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, 68, 184, 270, 302, 536
Global Climate Science Team of, 85–86, 87
oil scale of, 413
American International Group, Inc., 528
American Petroleum Institute (A.P.I.), 60, 72, 73, 84, 85–86, 413, 488, 505, 537, 547
Amnesty International, 504
Amoco, 60, 64, 265, 578, 611
Amundson, Neal, 79
Anderson, Benedict, 524
Angelos, Peter G., 384, 620–21
Angola, 18, 139, 149, 150, 222, 282, 284, 286, 293, 360, 453, 471, 516, 521, 608
Annapolis Center for Science-Based Public Policy, 86–87
Arab Spring, 162
ARCO Juneau, 3
Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, 70
Argentina, 26
Armed Forces for a Federal Republic (F.A.R.F.), 167
Armey, Richard, 538
Arms and the African (Foltz), 171
Association for the Conservation of Energy, 309
Atkiss, Tony, 213
Atlantic Richfield, 3, 36, 487, 611
Atlas Shrugged (Rand), 334
Attah, Victor, xiv, 452, 458–60, 465, 466
Attiyah, Abdullah Bin Hamad Al-, 198
Auke Bay Laboratories, 123–25, 128–29
Australia, 51, 94, 224, 589, 619
Austria, 17
Auty, Richard M., 166
Avatar (film), 528
Azerbaijan, 18, 168, 222, 232, 565
Aznar, José María, 285, 290–91, 293
Baddin, Neal, 527–28
Baharuddin (torture victim), 397–98
Bahrain, 195
Bailey, David P., 547
Baldwin, Maurice W., Jr., 387–88, 393
Baltimore Sun, 384
Bandar Bin Sultan, Prince of Saudi Arabia, 202
Bank of New York, 427, 429–30, 431
Barbour, Haley, 91
Barbour Griffith & Rogers, 291–92
Barclays Capital, 588, 589, 591, 597
Barnett Shale, 577–78, 584
Baron, Valerie, 490
Barron’s, 577
Barrymore, Drew, 208
Barton, Joe, xiv, 487–94, 496
Barzani, Masoud, 570
Bashir, Omar Al-, 242, 356–57, 358
Batts, Deborah, 433–34
BearingPoint, Inc., 565
Beautiful Vision, Inc., 526
Bechtel Corporation, 96, 97
Beggar of Hope, The (Le Mendiant de l’Espoir) (Haggar), 171
Bellachey, Brenda, 130
Benchmark Capital, 591
Bennett, Jack, 62
Bennett, John, 139, 146
Benson, Sally, 444
benzene, 381, 386
Berezovsky, Boris, 271
Berlin Wall, 17, 19
Bingaman, Jeff, 321
Bingel, Kelly, 551
Bin Laden, Osama, 172, 400
Bin Nayef, Mohammed, 207
Black, Hugo, 401
Black, Ronnie, 43
Blair, Tony, 106, 220, 224, 240, 285, 290, 523, 611
Blankfein, Lloyd, 554
Bodkin, Jim, 130
Bodman, Samuel, 143, 248, 323, 545, 560, 563
Boeing Corporation, 153
Booth, John Wilkes, 542
Borico, Miguel, 292
Bowdoin College, 132
Bowen, Russell, xiii, 375–76, 378
Boxer, Barbara, 320, 486
Boyce, Ralph “Skip,” 113, 117
Boy Scouts of America, 333, 335, 541
Brazil, 18, 446, 448
Breakingviews, 591
Breast Cancer Fund, 483, 485–86, 491
Bremer, Paul, 231, 232, 236
Bridgeland, John, 90
Brill, Ken, 91–92
Bristol-Myers, 80, 91
British Petroleum (BP), 2–3, 10, 16–17, 31, 36–37, 40, 51, 52, 57, 62, 64, 70, 85, 107, 161, 198, 218, 255, 259, 261, 264, 274, 320, 322, 326, 340, 342, 414, 415, 418, 421, 423, 425, 457, 546, 549, 550, 568, 575, 578, 595, 608, 609, 613, 615, 616
Browne’s tenure at, 610–12
climate change issue and, 224–26
ExxonMobil’s rivalry with, 224
liquefied natural gas industry and, 581
logo of, 224
political neutrality of, 226
poor safety culture of, 612, 614
proposed Mobil merger with, 58–59
proposed XTO merger and, 581–82
solar investment of, 224–25
Texas City disaster and, 612
Voluntary Principles and, 404–5
see also Deepwater Horizon disaster
Brookings Institution, 344, 537, 553
Brooklyn, 3
