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Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power

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by Steve Coll


  Goldman Sachs, 554

  Goldthwait, Christopher, xiv, 154–55, 157, 169, 170–71, 175, 359–60, 638n

  Goldwyn, David, 531

  Golubev, Yuri, 269

  Goodwin, Rockefeller, 40

  GoodWorks International, 370

  Google, 20, 551

  Gorbachev, Mikhail, 13, 252, 255, 260

  Gordon, Bart, 343

  Gordon, Douglas, 241–42

  Gore, Al, 68, 89, 181, 337–38, 339, 535–36, 635n

  Gorton, Slade, 15

  Grameen Bank, 554

  Grasso, Richard, 272

  Gravity Magnetics Group, 158

  Great Britain, 51, 58, 61, 85, 197, 200, 220, 231, 244, 261, 282, 286, 293, 455, 619

  ExxonMobil operations in, 224

  Great Depression, 540

  Greco, John, 390

  greenhouse effect, 88, 91, 301, 310, 500, 580, 585, 596

  cap-and-trade debate and, 539, 547

  ExxonMobil’s opposition to regulation of, 180–81, 336, 347–48, 479

  natural process of, 77–78

  Obama’s energy policy and, 543–44, 545–46, 547

  Raymond’s Beijing speech on, 81–84

  Rio Summit and, 80–81

  see also climate change; global warming

  Greenpeace, 26, 34, 85, 181, 336, 536

  ExxonMobil as targeted by, 182–88

  ExxonMobil protest raid of, 186–88

  internal culture of, 182

  oil companies targeted by, 181–82

  Greenspan, Alan, 200–201, 581, 586

  Gref, German, 254, 277

  Grumet, Jason, 498

  GSAAuctions.gov, 288

  Guatemala, 519

  Gulf War of 1991, 228, 229, 511

  Guyer, Jane, 165

  Guzinsky, Vladimir, 271

  Habré, Hissène, 155, 158–59

  Hadley, Stephen, 239, 241, 252

  Hagel, Chuck, 301–2

  Hagen, Pete, 133

  Haggar, Ali Abdel-Rhamane, 171

  Haifa pipeline, 233–35

  Haines, Robert, 72, 108, 113, 220, 342, 403, 563

  Halliburton, 52, 67–68, 70, 145, 162, 235, 244, 373–74, 461–62, 567, 573, 602, 613

  Halperin, Mark, 487

  Hand, Henry, 145–46

  Hansen, James, 78, 80, 90

  Harper, Stephen, 545

  Harris, John F., 487

  Harrison, Otto, xiii, 14–15

  Hart Research Associates, 554

  Harvard Center for Risk Analysis, 481

  Hassett, Kevin, 536

  Hawrami, Ashti, 567

  Hayward, Tony, 612

  Hazelwood, Joseph, Jr., xv, 4–6, 634n

  Health and Human Services Department, U.S., 381

  Heartland Institute, 86, 340, 345

  Heimbold, Charles, 91

  Heintz, Ron, 128

  Henry, Jamie Lee, 334

  Henry, Simon, 590

  Henry Dunant Centre, 115

  Heritage Foundation, 184, 232, 565

  Heritage Mobil stations, 372

  Hess Corporation, 514–15, 520, 529, 571

  see also Amerada Hess

  Hewlett-Packard, 80

  Hickel, Walter, 605

  Hill, Christopher, 558

  Hinchey, Maurice, 500

  Hissène, Mahamat, 358, 367, 370

  History of the Standard Oil Company, The (Tarbell), 35

  Hitchcock, Liz, 487, 491

  Hochstein, Amos, 292, 295, 297

  Houghton, James R., 315

  House of Representatives, Nigerian, 466

  House of Representatives, U.S., 73, 342, 343, 496, 617, 650n

  Energy and Commerce Committee of, 488, 489–90, 494, 551

  Science and Technology Committee of, 343

  toy safety bill in, 486

  Waxman-Markey bill in, 552

  Hoyt, Max, 488

  Hubbard, Allan, 303–4

  Hubble, Henry, 493–94

  human rights, 170, 504, 510

  Aceh war and, 101–5, 107, 110–11, 114, 118, 120, 396–98, 400

  Equatorial Guinea and, 142–43, 145, 146–48, 150–51, 152–53, 296–97, 511–13, 516, 521, 529, 531–33

  ExxonMobil and, 220–23, 404–5, 521

  Human Rights Watch, 106, 152, 220–21, 222, 405, 531–32

  Humble Oil and Refining, 3, 36, 61, 77, 608

  Humphreys, Donald, 493

  Hungary, 17, 587

  Hunt, Hunter L., 569

  Hunt, Ray L., 569–70

  Hunt Oil, 568–71, 622

  Hurricane Katrina, 319

  Hurricane Rita, 319

  Hurtt, Adrienne, 45

  Hushka, Leslie, 481

  Hussein, Saddam, 59, 227, 228, 230, 232, 360, 440, 558, 561, 564, 574

  Hutchison, Kay Bailey, 335

  Hutto, F. Chase,, III, 304–5

  Hutton, Keith, 589

  hydraulic fracturing, 580–81

  hydrocarbons, classes of, 127

  hydrogen, 437, 444–45

  I.B.M., 19, 318

  Ibrahim, Khalil, 357

  Ijaw Patriotic Front, 456

  Immelt, Jeffrey, 180

  Immigration and Customs Enforcement, U.S., 526

  Imperial Oil, 544

  Inconvenient Truth, An (film), 337

  India, 224, 257, 303, 310, 324, 415, 420, 422, 440, 457, 512, 559, 618, 620

  Indonesia, 20, 59, 62, 93–94, 95, 99–100, 102, 104, 107, 112–13, 114–15, 116, 197, 232, 351, 352, 364, 415, 419, 636n

  John Doe lawsuit and, 120, 399–406, 621

  2004 tsunami in, 402–7

  see also Aceh war

  Indonesian National Army, see T.N.I.

  Industry and Trade Ministry, Indonesian, 114

  Ingersol, Scott, 562

  Inhofe, James, 87, 185

  Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (I.P.C.C.), 79, 81, 88, 347, 635n

  Interior Department, U.S., 605–8, 609, 610

  Interior Ministry, Saudi, 207

  Internal Revenue Service, 188

  International Committee of the Red Cross, 111

  International Labor Rights Forum, 119

  International Monetary Fund (I.M.F.), 259, 358

  International Peace Operations Association, 281

  International Space Station, 252

  Internet, 441–42

  I.P.T., 374

  Iran, 2, 52, 54, 161, 196, 197, 203, 205, 222, 245, 246, 247, 249, 415, 419, 421, 436, 440, 511–12, 519, 520, 567, 618

  Iranian Revolution of 1979, 29, 52, 95, 239, 242

  Iraq, 52, 54, 197, 203, 205, 222, 228, 281, 293, 360, 419, 436, 440, 641n

  Kurdish oil industry in, 567–69, 622–23

  oil reserves of, 230, 248, 249, 558

  Rumaila oil field of, 571

  Sunni-Shia rift in, 559, 622

  West Qurnah oil field of, 572, 574, 575, 622

  Zubair oil field of, 575

  Iraq National Oil Company, 231

  Iraq Petroleum Company, 231

  Iraq War, 227–30, 243, 303, 324, 435, 499

  Bush (G. W.) administration and, 228, 231, 236–37, 247–48

  ExxonMobil operations in, 561–65, 573–75

  Haifa pipeline debate in, 233–35

  Hunt-Kurdish oil deal in, 569–71

  insurgency in, 236

  Iraqi nationalism in, 563

  Iraqi oil industry in, 232–37, 248, 559, 562–63, 564–68

  oil concessions auction in, 557–60, 571–73

  postwar planning in, 232–37

  “stealing” Iraqi oil question in, 227–33

  Iraq War (cont.)

  U.S. invasion in, 226, 228

  U.S. war aims in, 228–29

  Israel, 3, 18, 29, 237, 296, 440, 525, 530

  Equatorial Guinea’s relations with, 516–17

  Haifa pipeline and, 233–34

  Italy, 197–98

  Jackson, Lorie, 341, 549, 554

  Jacksonville Exxon, 371�
��79, 377, 488

  lawsuits and, 384–93, 620–21

  oil leak from, 374–79, 377, 384, 390–91

  Jacobs, Emil, 447–48

  Jaffe, Amy Myers, 325, 326

  Janka, David, 123, 130

  Japan, 95, 197, 255, 439, 449, 547

  Jefferies Group, Inc., 578

  Jeffers, Alan, 494

  Jendrzejczyk, Mike, 220–21

  Jobs, Steve, 577

  John Doe I et al. v. ExxonMobil Corporation et al., 120, 399–406, 621

  Johnson, Donald C., 509

  Johnson, Lance, 109

  Johnston, J. Bennett, 73

  Joint Special Operations Command (JSOP), 173, 174

  Joint Task Force, Nigerian, 456

  Jordan, 66, 233–34, 558, 562, 567

  J.P. Morgan, 49, 335, 588

  Justice Department, U.S., 142, 298, 401, 622

  Kagan, Robert, 5

  Kaharuddin (rebel), 395

  Kamarck, Elaine, 537

  Kansteiner, Walter, 174, 622

  Kareri, Simon, 152–53, 287

  Karl, Terry Lynn, 166

  Kasim, Ifdhal, 103

  Katrina, Hurricane, 319

  Kauffmann, Howard, 37

  Kazakhstan, 18, 58, 59, 62, 70, 168, 222, 252

  Kearl project, 548, 598

  Keller, Laura, 481

  Kellogg Brown & Root, 461

  Kellogg’s company, 216

  Kelly, John, 523

  Kelso, Dennis, 10, 12

  Kemnetz, Frank, 322

  Kennedy, John F., 77

  Kenya, 66, 172, 173, 369, 531

  Kerr, Lauren, 338

  Kerry, John, 343, 507, 550

  Kheshgi, Haroon, 79

  Khodorkovsky, Mikhail, xv, 259–60, 622

  arrest of, 274–75, 276, 418

  Browne’s meeting with, 264–65

  Dart and, 262

  political ambition of, 264, 265–66

  Putin’s conflict with, 261, 263–65

  Raymond’s meetings with, 268–70

  U.S.-Russia oil relationship and, 266–67

  Yukos negotiations and, 260–65, 268–69, 270–71

  Kingston, David, 343, 346

  Kittywake II, 122

  Kohl, Herb, 340

  Koonce, Terry, 255–56

  Korea, Republic of (South Korea), 197, 198

  Kosovo conflict, 280

  Kreindler, Tony, 552–53

  Kruger, Richard, 493

  Kunkel, James, 5

  Kurdish Regional Government, 567–70

  Kuwait, 59, 144, 195, 222, 228, 291, 326, 510, 511, 564, 566, 574, 575

  Kuwait Petroleum, 53

  Kwiatkowski, Karen, 173–74

  Kyoto Protocol, 81–84, 85–86, 89, 183, 187, 226, 301, 479, 535

  Labor Party, British, 106

  Laidlaw, Sam, 566

  Lambert, Richard, 63

  Lansdale, Edward, 96

  Larson, Alan, 146, 147, 148–49

  LaSala, Stephen, 493

  Latham & Watkins, 431

  Lautenberg, Frank, 320

  Lavrov, Sergey, 277

  Lazard (bank), 428, 431, 433

  Leahy, Don, 138–39

  Lebedev, Platon, 271

  Le Billon, Philippe, 166–67

  Le Floch-Prigent, Loik, 171

  Lehman Brothers, 540, 588

  Leiter, David, 343, 507, 550, 551

  Levin, Carl, 299

  LeVine, Steve, 192, 634n

  Lewis, William “Buford,” 73, 75, 342, 445

  Library of Congress, 266

  Libya, 52, 97, 155, 159, 162, 166, 172, 197, 222, 246, 531

  Life, 77

  Lincoln, Abraham, 541–42

  Lincoln, Blanche, 551

  Lindeberg, Mandy, xv, 122–25, 131–32, 136

  Logo Logistics, 288

  Loiero, Andrea, xv, 372, 375–76, 378, 379, 390

  Longwell, Harry, 99, 172, 209, 217

  Lowe, Leslie, 345–46

  Lujan, Manuel, Jr., 15

  Lukoil, 266, 271

  Lund, Ray, 144–45

  Lutz, Peter, 609

  Luzzatto, Tamera, 550

  Lyons, Virginia, 485

  McCain, John, 497–99, 503–4, 505, 607

  McCall, Steve, 5

  McChrystal, Stanley, 173, 174

  McDonald, David, 570

  McElroy, Michael B., 446

  Mach, Joe, 262

  Macías Nguema, Francisco, 137–38, 140, 141

  McKee, Rob, 565–67

  McKinsey & Company, 263

  McMurray Formation, 544

  Madec, Andre, 151, 363

  Maduekwe, Ojo, 474

  Mahmud, Malik, 117, 118

  Makovsky, Michael, 233–34

  Malaysia, 97, 103, 172

  Maliki, Nouri Al-, 558, 574

  Manchin, Joe, 552

  Mandelson, Peter, 611

  Mann, Simon, xiv, 284–86, 288–89, 524–25, 527, 644n

  Marathon Oil, 140, 142, 146, 147, 149, 150, 151, 262, 283, 291, 297, 299, 514, 515, 520, 529

  Marbun, B. N., 104

  Marcellus Shale, 577

  Martyrs Brigade, 456

  Massey, J. R., 428, 430–31

  Maya, Ruben, 516

  Mearsheimer, John, 244–45, 246

  Menatep, 260–62

  M.E.N.D. (Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta), 456–57, 463–67, 468, 470–71, 473–74, 476, 529

  methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE), 381–82, 384–86, 445, 488–89

  Metropolitan Club, 613–14

  Mexico, 440, 453

  Military Professional Resources International (M.P.R.I.), 147–48, 283, 291, 295, 296, 514, 525

  Milov, Vladimir, 261, 275

  Minerals Management Service (M.M.S.), 606, 608–9

  Minyard, Robert, 431

  Misamore, Bruce, xv, 262–64, 265, 267, 271, 273–74

  Mitchell, George P., 584

  Mitchell, Jeanne O., 73, 75, 342, 494

  Mitchell Energy, 584

  Moats, Simeon, 72, 162, 521–22

  Mobil Exploration Nigeria, Inc., 465

  Mobil Oil, 36, 40, 161, 203, 325, 413–14, 416

  Aceh war and, 93–98, 102–3, 105, 106, 107, 143

  Equatorial Guinea oil deals of, 139–40, 142

  Exxon’s buyout of, 60–66

  liquid natural gas business and, 197–98

  Nigeria operations of, 465–67

 

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