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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