Desert Storm, Operation, 228
D’Esposito, Steve, 26
Det Norske Veritas, 607
Deutsche Bank, 324, 574
Devon Energy, 591
Dingell, John, xiv, 76, 340–41, 488–92, 506, 551
DINP (diisononyl phthalate), 482–84, 486, 487, 489–92, 493
di Tiro, Hasan, xv, 96–97, 116, 117, 118, 119, 394
D.N.O., 568–69, 570
Dobriansky, Paula, 91
Dodson, J. R., 288
Dodson Aviation, Inc., 288
Doe v. Unocal, 120
Dogs of War, The (Forsyth), 283
Dolan, Michael, 493
Dole, Elizabeth, 537
Domenici, Pete, 321–22
Doral Inc., 96
Dow Chemical, 539
downstream, as term, 49
Dubai, 562, 567
Duma, Russian, 264, 266, 271, 275
DuPont, 61, 317
Durão Barroso, José, 285
Durbin, Dick, 76
Dutch disease, 166
du Toit, Nick, 286, 289, 644n
Earth in the Balance (Gore), 535
East Timor, 104–5
Economic Club, 556
Ecuador, 578
Edmonds, James, 90
Edson, Gary, 90
EECO 3000 (leak detector system), 387, 389
EG Justice, 532
election of 2008, 497–500, 505–7, 531, 542, 550–51, 607, 650n
Electra oil field, 333
Elf Acquitaine, 61, 171–72
Enco, 36
Energy Department, U.S., 255, 274, 342–43, 437, 444, 543, 549, 560, 581
Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007, 546
Energy Information Administration, 200, 242, 650n
Energy Policy Act of 2005, 446
ENI, 425
Environmental Conservation Department, Alaska, 5, 10
Environmental Defense Fund, 552, 606
Environmental Protection Agency, 12, 15, 90, 91, 380–81
Environment Department, Maryland, 386
enzyme P450, 130
Equatorial Guinea, 18, 137–53, 192, 356, 360, 440, 453, 504, 608, 622, 644n
Al Qaeda and, 149
arms purchase of, 517–18
Bush (G. W.) administration and, 143, 145–46, 147–49, 296, 514–15, 518, 520, 531, 532
E.I.T.I. membership proposal and, 523–25
ExxonMobil operations in, 139, 140, 164, 512, 514, 520–24
Fang clan of, 526
G. W. Bush and, 294–96
human rights issue in, 142–43, 145, 146–48, 150–51, 152–53, 296–97, 511–13, 516, 521, 529, 531–33
Israel’s relations with, 516–17
Leahy murder in, 138–39
Macías regime of, 137–38
Mobil’s relations with, 139–40, 142
Nigerian raid on, 529–30
Obama administration and, 531–32
Obiang coup in, 140–41
Obiang-Powell meeting and, 294–95
Obiang-Rice meeting and, 518–20
oil deposits of, 141–42
Riggs Bank and, 144–45, 152–53, 290, 294, 295, 509
Smith’s posting to, 508–10
Spain and, 285, 290–91
State Department and, 145, 146–49, 151, 283, 295–97, 299, 510–13, 518–19
succession issue of, 525–28
2004 coup attempt in, 286–94, 514
U.S. embassy in, 146, 147, 149
U.S. military aid to, 147–48
U.S. security relations with, 514–16, 529
Whalen-Wales meeting and, 286–90
Zafiro oil field of, 521
Erdimi, Tom, 168
Erdos, Al, 138–39
Ernst & Young, 383
Essien, Nduese, 457, 466–67
Esso, 36, 223–24, 231
Esso Exploration & Production Chad, Inc., 157
Esso Inter-America, 46
ethanol, 498
as alternate energy, 445–48
congressional mandate for, 446–48
Ethiopia, 172
Etukakban, Samingo, 457
European Chemicals Bureau, 484
European Command, U.S., 174, 470, 471, 474, 515
European Union, 308, 479, 484, 486
Evans, Don, xiv, 90, 252, 254, 258, 271
Putin’s conversations with, 250–51, 268, 277–79
Eve (rap star), 527
Executive Outcomes, 284
Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (E.I.T.I.), 504, 522–25, 526
Exxon Chemical Company, 213–14, 478–81, 486
see also chemical industry
Exxon Corporation, 1, 9
Aviation Services department of, 42–43, 44
corporate management culture of, 37–41
as corporate state, 19–21
and demise of Soviet Union, 18–19
employee ranking system of, 39, 41
energy policy and, 21–22
Exxon Valdez cleanup operations and, 14–16, 17
Global Security department of, 30, 42, 43
Exxon Corporation (cont.)
Irving campus of, 34–35
Mobil buyout and, 60–66
in move to Texas, 34–35
O.I.M.S. of, 32–33, 39, 41
as political actor, 19–21
premerger holdings of, 65
Rawl’s cost-cutting at, 6–7, 11, 49
Raymond Rule and, 30
recruitment by, 37, 39–40
religious tradition of, 36–37
Reso kidnapping and culture of, 25–29
resource nationalism and, 51–55
R.O.C.E. metric of, 49–50
Rockefeller style and, 36–37
safety management regime of, 30–33
share buybacks and, 62–64
Exxon Enterprises, 80
ExxonMobil:
accident safety policy of, 378–79
Aceh war and, 98–102, 106, 107–11, 112–14, 116–17, 118, 143, 398–99
biofuels investment of, 549
Biomedical Science division of, 480–81
BP’s rivalry with, 223–24
British operations of, 223–24
cash deposits of, 587–88
contracts policy of, 417–18
employee political donations and, 493–94
energy education campaign of, 303–5, 307, 309–10
first annual meeting of, 88–89
first-year earnings of, 66
forecasts practice of, 304–11, 442, 645n
formation evaluation group of, 158
geologists employed by, 157
geopolitical vulnerability of, 450
Global Security department of, 107–11, 207, 352, 353, 465, 466, 469, 475, 558
government access and, 68, 72
issues management program of, 214–15
John Doe lawsuit and, 400–404
key vote system of, 341
lobbying by, 71–77, 84, 87, 183, 246, 301–3, 339–43, 481, 496, 534–35, 542–43, 547, 548, 551
Management Committee of, 79, 161, 163, 190, 200, 207, 209, 214, 298, 306, 331, 334, 419, 421–22, 424, 439, 442, 450, 550, 586, 587
Moscow office of, 255
1988 profits of, 159
oil spill response plan of, 608, 609–10
oil supply disruptions and, 245–46
O.I.M.S. of, 94, 164
P.A.C. of, 340–41, 488, 494–96
public affairs department of, 213–15, 320, 331–32, 398–99
public reputation of, 217–20, 316–17, 331–32, 496–97, 549–50
record profits of, 496–97
recruitment by, 218
reserves accounting of, 189–92, 325–26
reserves replacement problem of, 199–200, 247, 249, 258, 332, 422, 564–65, 573, 596–98, 615, 617
resource nationalism and, 94
retail gas system of, 371–74, 380
risk management plan
of, 614
R.O.C.E. metric of, 49–50, 595
Safety and Health division of, 178–79
safety policy of, 614–15
salaries at, 218
sanction issue and, 246
size and reach of, 66
succession question and, 209–12, 314–18
taxation issue and, 74–75
Tony the Tiger logo of, 216
2005 profits of, 318–19
2010 profits of, 595
2011 profits of, 625
and value of Mobil holdings, 194–95
Washington politics as categorized by, 75–76
women and, 218
see also Mobil Oil
Exxon Shipping Company, 5, 7
Exxon Valdez disaster, 1–18, 28–30, 47, 61, 225, 315, 385, 387, 610–11, 615
culpability in, 7, 15, 16–17
damage to wildlife in, 7–8
dispersants debate in, 9–10, 14, 16
Exxon-Coast Guard conflict in, 14–15
Exxon’s safety record after, 603–4
Freedom of Information Act requests and, 131, 133–34, 135–36
Hazelwood and, 1–6
oil leak in, 5–7
overlapping authorities and, 10–13
punitive damages in, 312–14
Raymond’s assessment of, 9–10, 11–13
scientific surveys of, 122–25, 128–33
settlement in, 124
ship aground in, 3–4
Eyiboh, Esseme, 466–67, 651n
Ezell, Randy, 601–2
Fahd, King of Saudi Arabia, 201
Faisal (student activist), 119, 120
F.A.R.F. (Armed Forces for a Federal Republic), 167
Fariello, Theresa, xiii, 342–43, 507, 548–50
Farmer, Mike, 107–10, 405
Federal Bureau of Investigation (F.B.I.), 26–27, 28
Feinstein, Dianne, 486
Feith, Douglas, xiv, 227, 231, 234, 241, 242, 243, 245
global vision on oil, 237–40, 246
Senate testimony of, 227–28
Field of Dreams (film), 525
Fifteenth World Petroleum Congress, 81
Finance Ministry, Iraqi, 564
financial crisis of 2008, 540, 541, 578
Finestone, Paul, 528
Finestone Insurance Agency, 528
Finkel, Louis, 343
Flannery, Brian, xiii, 79, 84, 183, 555
Flatt, Shawn, 424
Fleytas, Andrea, 602–3
Fluor Corporation, 235
Foley, Thomas, 232–33
Foltz, William, 171
Ford, Gerald, 237
Ford Motor Company, 85, 539
Foreign Agricultural Service, 154
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (F.C.P.A.), 109, 142, 298–99
Foreign Office, British, 459
Forsythe, Rosemarie, xiii, 160–62, 163, 255, 419, 442, 463
Fortune, 33, 316, 645n
fracking. See hydraulic fracturing
France, 19, 141, 155, 261, 297, 357, 455, 512, 513, 620
Franco, Francisco, 137, 285
Franklin, Rob, 574, 575
Franks, Tommy, 227–28
Frazer, Jendayi, 468, 469
Free Aceh Movement, see G.A.M.
FreedomCAR and Fuel Partnership, 437, 444
Freedom House, 344
Freedom of Information Act, 131, 133–34, 135–36, 183, 459
Freeman, Bennett, 223, 504–7, 538
Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold, 102
Freudenberg, William, 312–13
Friedberg, Aaron, 243–44
Friedman, Thomas, 240
Front Uni Pour le Changement (United Front for Change), 357, 363
Fryszman, Agnieszka, 405–7
Fuller, Lawrence, 60
Future 500, 537
Future of Iraq Project, 232
“Future Policy Issues Concerning the Ministry of Oil” (Carroll), 236
Gabon, 141, 150
Gaddafi, Muammar, 97, 159, 531
Galante, Edward G., xiii, 210, 211–12, 314, 315–17, 332, 338
Galbraith, John Kenneth, 570
Galbraith, Peter, 570
G.A.M. (Free Aceh Movement) (Gerakan Aceh Merdeka), 102–3, 105, 111, 112, 143, 394–95, 401
in Banda-Aceh meeting, 115–17, 118
extortion campaign of, 93, 97–98
ExxonMobil and, 98–102, 110–11, 113–14, 119, 398–99
Gelbard’s diplomacy and, 99–102, 114, 115–20
Gamble, Mel, 173, 292–93, 294, 296–97
Gandhi, Mohandas, 182
Ganesan, Arvind, 106, 221–22, 405
Garba, Salibou, 160, 174–75
García Márquez, Gabriel, 137, 601
Garka, Boukinebe, 356
Garvin, Clifton C., Jr., 7, 47, 62, 76, 203–4, 634n
Gary, Ian, 167
gasoline, 216–17, 497
chemical elements in, 381–82
growing consumption of, 379–80
historic high prices of, 419–20
Hurricane Katrina and, 319
oil dependency and, 618–19
retail, 371–74
taxing, 345
U.S. consumption of, 650n
Gas Research Institute, 584, 585
Gas Technology Institute, 585
Gazprom, 53, 278
Geithner, Timothy, 169
Gelbard, Robert, xiv, 101–2, 113, 119
Aceh diplomacy of, 99–102, 114, 115–20
General Electric, 40, 74, 180, 318, 624–25
General Motors, 19, 40, 85, 318
General Services Administration, 288
Geological Operations, 158
Germany, 19, 253, 278, 587
Ghadhban, Thamir, xv, 233–36
Ghana, 472
Gheit, Fadel, 57
Gibson, Charles, 502
Gilbarco Veeder-Root, 374
Gillan, Joseph A., 73
Gilman, Howard, 551–52
Gilman, Mark, 191, 324, 325, 326, 591–92
Global Climate and Energy Project, 180–81
Global Climate Coalition, 85
Global Systems Model, 337
global warming, 77, 79, 81–83, 90, 91, 134, 180, 224, 226, 324, 345, 347–48, 440, 446, 498, 535, 596, 610, 619, 620, 621
G. W. Bush on, 89, 90
see also climate change
Global Witness, 169
Gold, Russell, 587