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    Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power

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      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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