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Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power

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by Steve Coll

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  “Liquefied Natural Gas: Understanding the Basic Facts.” Department of Energy, August 2005.

  Malik, Rajiv. “Three Days in N’djamena,” Foreign Service Journal, May 2008.

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  “More Fight—Less Fuel.” Report of the Defense Science Board Task Force on Department of Defense Energy Strategy, February 2008.

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  “Nigeria: Petroleum, Pollution and Poverty in the Niger Delta.” Amnesty International, 2009.

  Oreskes, Naomi. “Behind the Ivory Tower: The Scientific Consensus on Climate Change.” Science, December 2004.

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  Patria, Nezar. “Islam and Nationalism in the Free Aceh Movement, 1976–2005.” master’s thesis, International History Department, London School of Economics, London.

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  “Political Interference with Climate Change Science Under the Bush Administration.” House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, December 2007.

  “Responsible Actions: A Plan for Alberta’s Oil Sands.” Government of Alberta Treasury Board, February 2009.

  Schierow, Linda-Jo, and Margaret Mikyung Lee. “Phthalates in Plastics and Possible Human Health Effects.” Congressional Research Service Report for Congress, updated July 29, 2008.

  Shurtleff, Len. “A Foreign Service Murder.” Foreign Service Journal, October 2007.

  Skjærseth, Jon Birger. “ExxonMobil: Tiger or Turtle on Social Responsibility?” The Fridtjof Nansen Institute, Lysaker, Norway, July 2003.

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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.

  Mobil Cerro Negro, Ltd. v. Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A., Claim No. 2008, Folio 61, High Court of Justice, Queen’s Bench Division, Commercial Court, Great Britain.

  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

  The page numbers in this index refer to the printed version of this book. To find the corresponding locations in the text of this digital version, please use the “search” function on your e-reader. Note that not all terms may be searchable.

  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

 

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