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by Steve Coll


  Rio Earth Summit of 1992, 80–81

  Rockefeller, John D., 19, 35–36, 51, 318, 624

  Rodriguez, Carlos, 424–25

  Roosevelt, Franklin D., 540

  Rosneft, 256–57, 262, 278

  ExxonMobil’s deal with, 621

  Rouse, James, xiii, 69, 72–73, 301–2

  Rove, Karl, 406, 487–88

  Roy, J. Stapleton, 104

  Royal, Ron, xiii, 358–62, 364, 366, 368, 522

  Royal Dutch Shell, 36–37, 40, 51, 54, 62, 85, 111, 223, 320, 322–23, 326, 340, 418, 467, 539, 541, 550, 568, 575, 590, 591, 595, 597, 608

  accounting scandal of, 188–89

  floating drill invented by, 604–5

  liquid natural gas industry and, 198, 578, 581

  Nigeria operations of, 454–55, 457, 463, 465

  Raymond on, 223

  Voluntary Principles signed by, 106

  Rumsfeld, Donald, 228, 231, 235, 239, 471

  Russia, 18, 161, 196, 203, 249, 419, 421, 452, 558, 559, 617, 618, 621–22, 642n

  G. W. Bush’s visit to, 258

  natural gas reserves of, 249, 251, 252–53

  oil and gas economy of, 251

  Sakhalin project of, 255–59

  U.S. oil relationship with, 252–54, 258–59, 266–68, 418

  Rwanda, 280, 360

  Sahel region, 172

  Sakhalin Island project, 255–59, 276–77

  Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat, 174

  Salazar, Ken, 607, 623

  Salter, Gretchen Lee, 485

  Samuelson, Victor, 26

  Sanders, James F., xiii, 388–90, 392–93

  Sandline International, 284

  Sankey, Paul, 324

  Saro-Wiwa, Ken, 462

  Saud Al-Faisal, Prince of Saudi Arabia, xv, 203–6, 207–8, 209

  Saudi Arabia, 44, 52, 59–60, 70, 167, 169, 193, 195, 197, 209, 222, 237, 238, 276, 286, 291, 413, 419, 420, 425, 436, 439, 453, 510, 543, 544, 558, 566, 573, 580, 618, 641n

  Abdullah’s natural gas initiative and, 201–4, 207, 208

  Al Qaeda and, 205

  natural gas reserves of, 202–3, 249

  9/11 and, 204–5, 230

  Sunni-Shia divide in, 205

  terrorist attacks in, 206–7

  Saudi Aramco, 53–54, 201–3, 207–8, 231

  Sawyer, Diane, 554–55

  Schanberger, David, 374

  Scherer, Bill, 406

  Schlumberger, 52, 180, 262, 373–74, 567, 573

  Schroeder, Gerhard, 278

  Schumer, Charles, 76, 340

  Schwartz, Nelson D., 316

  Schwarzenegger, Arnold, 486

  Science, 185, 311

  Scowcroft, Brent, 247

  Seale, Arthur, 27–28

  Seale, Jackie Szarko, 27–28

  sea otters, 130–31

  Sechin, Igor, 270, 278

  Securities Act of 1933, 189

  Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), 51, 54, 198, 326, 564, 574, 597

  Royal Dutch Shell scandal and, 188–89

  Rule 4–10 of, 55, 57, 189

  tar sands rule of, 55–56, 189, 191, 192

  year-end pricing rule of, 191

  Securities Exchange Act of 1934, 189

  Seider, Mitchell, 649n–50n

  Senate, U.S., 80–81, 142, 185, 496, 550, 552, 554, 555

  Banking Committee of, 509

  ethanol issue in, 446

  Senate, U.S. (cont.)

  ExxonMobil-Equatorial Guinea relationship hearings in, 298–300

  ExxonMobil’s lobbyist for, 73, 342, 445

  Feith’s testimony to, 227–28

  Foreign Relations Committee of, 227–28

  oil industry hearings in, 320–22

  Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of, 298–99

  phthalates bill in, 489

  toys bill in, 492

  see also Congress, U.S.

  Senegal, 155

  September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks of, 149, 172, 173, 174, 204, 230, 240, 246, 252, 400, 436, 438, 470, 543

  Sessions, William, 26, 27

  Shafiq, Tariq, 230, 237

  Shahristani, Hussain Al-, xv, 560–61, 563–64, 568, 571

  Shapiro, Charles, 411

  Shelby, Richard, 508–9

  Shell, see Royal Dutch Shell

  Shihab, Alwi, 111–12

  Short, Jeffrey, xv, 125–34, 135–36

  Shurtleff, Len, 138–39

  Sibneft, 261

  Sieminski, Adam, 324

  Sierra Club, 606

  Sierra Leone, 284–85

  Sikkel, Mark, 343

  siloviki (security men), 270–71, 275

  Silvertip pipeline, 620

  Simmons, Matthew, 420

  Simon, David, 223

  Simon, Stephen, 493

  Simpson, Bob, 576–79, 581–83, 588, 589

  Sims, David, 600

  Singapore, 100, 108, 217, 439, 522, 525

  Singh, Manmohan, 257

  Sinopec, 425

  Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, 588

  Skinner, Samuel, 13–15

  Smith, Anton, xiv, 508–10, 512–14, 515, 521, 525, 531–32

  Smith, Jordan, 460

  Smith, Paul, 451–52, 459–61

  Smith, Paula, 460–61

  Snodgrass, Michael, 474–75

  Snow, John, 278

  Snyder, Julie, 383

  Snyder, Stephen, xvi, 382–93, 621

  Society of Petroleum Evaluation Engineers, 590

  Sociological Forum, 312

  Socolow, Robert, 311

  Solidarity, 183

  Somalia, 172, 280, 360, 369, 473

  Sonangol, 53

  Soros, George, 523

  Soubiane, Ahmat Hassaballah, 168

  Soublin, Michel, 262

  Souter, David, 314

  South Africa, 150, 173, 282, 286, 288–89, 293

  Soviet Union, 17, 51, 58, 237, 255

  demise of, 17, 18, 160–61, 252, 253

  Spain, 137, 140, 141–42, 150, 513, 530

  Equatorial Guinea coup and, 282, 285, 290–91

  Sparrows Offshore, 452, 458

  Spears, Jim, 521

  Spellings, Jamie, 343

  Spirit of Glacier Bay, 122

  Sprow, Frank, xiii, 83, 177–80, 343, 379

  Standard & Poor, 625

  Standard Oil, 19, 21, 41, 54, 59, 70, 193, 217, 231, 339, 393, 465, 496, 500, 624

  breakup of, 35–36

  of California, 36

  of Indiana, 60

  of New Jersey, 36, 61

  of New York, 36

  of Ohio, 35

  Stanford University, 180, 337, 444, 447, 449

  Stanley, Albert “Jack,” 461–62

  Staples, George, 149–51, 644n

  State Department, U.S., 72, 105, 111, 112, 113, 143, 232, 233, 323, 362, 401, 459, 460, 504, 509, 549, 561, 563, 565, 568, 569–70, 622

  Chad and, 154, 354

  Diplomatic Security Bureau of, 460

  Equatorial Guinea and, 144, 145, 146–49, 151, 283, 295–97, 299, 510–13, 518–19

  John Doe lawsuit and, 402–3

  Nigeria policy and, 470

  State Security Services, Nigerian, 456, 460–61, 466

  Statoil, 255, 414, 415, 425

  Steptoe & Johnson, 429–30, 432

  Stern, Nicholas, 619

  Stevens, Ted, 320

  Stewart, David P., 401

  Stinson, Mike, 565–66

  Storto family, 372–75

  Stuewer, Sherri, xiv, 343, 345, 493, 551–53

  Stupak, Bart, 616

  Sudan, 155, 172, 242, 351, 356–57, 360, 363, 364–65, 369, 519

  Darfur region of, 242, 356–57, 362, 363, 370, 519

  Suez Crisis, 2

  Suharto, Mohammed, 102, 103, 118

  Sukarnoputri, Megawati, 118, 396

  Sumatra, 94, 102, 402

  Summers, Lawrence, 168–69

  Sununu, John, 13, 14–
15

  Supreme Court, U.S., 35

  Citizens United decision of, 624

  Exxon Valdez decision of, 314, 385

  John Doe lawsuit and, 406–7

  Supreme Petroleum Council, 322

  Sustaining Development in Mineral Economies: The Resource Curse Thesis (Auty), 166

  Sweden, 117, 118, 119

  Swiger, Andrew, 298–300, 493

  Syafie, Abdul, 118

  Syncrude, 544–45, 548

  Syria, 234, 246, 415

  Szydlowski, Norm, 566

  Taft, William H.,, IV, 401–2

  Taiwan, 243, 244

  Taliban, 470–71

  Tamlyn, Lucy, 364, 366

  Tang, Ignacio Milam, 524

  Tarbell, Ida, 35

  tar sands, 55–56, 189, 421, 544–48

  Tenet, George, 173

  Tenneco Energy, 262

  terrorism, 172–74, 205, 293, 401

  terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, 149, 172, 173, 174, 204, 230, 240, 246, 252, 400, 436, 438, 470, 543

  Texaco, 61

  Thailand, 244, 439

  Thani, Hamid Bin Khalifa Al-, 195

  Thatcher, Margaret, 286

  Thatcher, Mark, 286

  Threshold Cash Flow Formula, 425–26

  Thunder Horse oil field, 611

  Tillerson, Bobby Joe, 333

  Tillerson, Renda House, 334–35

  Tillerson, Rex W., xiv, 164, 210, 211–12, 245–46, 247, 256–57, 258, 265, 269, 341, 368, 380, 393, 414, 417, 418, 422, 437, 463, 487, 493, 495, 505, 523, 538–39, 541–42, 548, 555–56, 558, 573, 580, 581, 586, 588, 609, 614–16, 622–23, 624

  alternate energy issue and, 442–43, 447, 450

  background of, 332–34

  Browner’s meeting with, 542–43

  career of, 334–35

  climate change issue and, 335–38, 347, 534–35, 536–37, 543, 596

  at Clinton Global Initiative, 554–55

  on Deepwater Horizon, 613–14

  energy independence issue and, 439, 440–41

  energy policy and, 501–4

  executive leadership of, 595–99

  Jones Award of, 599–600

  medals program of, 335

  Nigeria issues and, 464–66, 469, 476

  offshore drilling issue and, 542–43

  Putin’s meeting with, 621–22

  Raymond’s legacy and, 338–39

  Rosneft deal and, 621

  succession contest and, 209–12, 314–18, 331–32

  Venezuela issues and, 423–25, 427

  XTO merger and, 579, 582–83, 588–91, 592–93, 594

  Tizard, Steve, 384

  T.N.I. (Indoensian National Army) (Tentara Nasional Indonesia), 118

  ExxonMobil’s relations with, 101, 107, 108–11

  human rights abuses of, 102–5, 107, 118, 220, 395, 397–98

  John Doe lawsuit and, 120, 399–401

  political power of, 107

  TNK-BP, 274–75

  tobacco industry, 85, 133, 134–35, 336–37

  Total, 61, 172, 198, 255, 261, 322, 414, 415, 418, 425

  Townsend, Peter, 48

  Toyota, 180

  Tragedy of Great Power Politics, The (Mearsheimer), 244–45

  Trans-Alaska Pipeline System, 3, 126

  Transocean, 602, 613

  Treasury Department, U.S., 62, 168–69

  Triple Option, 286

  UBS, 268, 326

  Ukraine, 267, 268, 517–18

  unconventional gas, 577–78, 580–82, 584–87, 590–93, 617

  Union of Concerned Scientists, 336

  Union Oil Company, 120

  Union Oil Platform A-21, 605

  United Arab Emirates, 195, 222, 291, 322–24, 510, 558

  United Front for Change (Front Uni Pour le Changement), 357, 363

  United Kingdom, see Great Britain

  United Nations, 66, 81, 105, 356, 370, 512, 519, 564, 574

  Convention on Human Rights of, 111

  Development Programme of, 155

  Framework Convention on Climate Change of, 80–81

  Human Development Index of, 367, 461

  I.P.C.C. of, 79, 81, 88, 635n

  Oil-for-Food Programme of, 561

  United States, 18–19, 21, 29, 51, 58, 59, 68, 70, 83, 310, 448, 455, 464, 468

  Aceh war role of, 112–14

  Canada’s oil relationship with, 544, 548

  Chad and, 158–59, 170, 174–75

  daily oil consumption in, 308

  Equatorial Guinea attempted coup and, 290, 291–93

  Equatorial Guinea’s relationship with, 141–49, 151, 152, 514–16, 529

  global oil prices and, 419–20

  Iraq War aims of, 228–29

  natural gas market in, 200–201

  natural gas reserves of, 581, 583, 585

  Nigerian oil security and, 469–75

  oil dependency of, 303–4, 421–22, 435–37, 478, 618–19

  Russia’s oil relationship with, 252–54, 258–59

  Standard & Poor’s downgrading of, 625

  strategic petroleum reserves of, 229, 237, 245, 440

  Suharto regime and, 102

  trade deficit of, 618

  2008 election in, see election of 2008

  United States Climate Action Partnership, 539–40

  United States Energy Information Agency, 199

  United States Geological Survey, 130, 413, 421, 621

  United States Steel, 19

  Upper Zakum oil field, 322–24

  U.S. Agency for International Development (U.S.A.I.D.), 518

  U.S. Catholic Conference, 169

  U.S. Climate Task Force, 537, 554

  U.S.-Russia Business Council, 265

  Vail, Peter, 185

  Venezuela, 20, 52, 59–60, 62, 166, 222, 245, 408, 421, 422, 440, 452–53, 544, 545, 547, 618

  bond issue and, 426–29

  cash waterfall agreement and, 426–34

  ExxonMobil interests in, 409–13, 415–16

  ExxonMobil’s asset seizure scheme and, 430–34

  ExxonMobil’s damage claim against, 425–26

  ExxonMobil’s pullout from, 422–26

  global oil prices and, 419–20

  oil industry nationalized in, 412–13

  oil industry of, 410–13

  oil quality of, 413

  resource curse and, 461

  resource nationalism and, 410, 417

  royalty rate dispute and, 415–17

  Vennerberg, Vaughn, 589

 

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