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Authors: Steve Coll
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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, 649
n
–50
n
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, 644
n
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