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Authors: Steve Coll

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Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power (101 page)

Paradox of Plenty: Oil Booms and Petro-States, The
(Karl), 166

Patrinos, Aristides, 90–91

Paul, Ron, 508

P.D.V.S.A. (Petróleos de Venezuela), 412–13, 415, 422, 423, 426–27, 428, 429, 430–31, 433

Pelosi, Nancy, 342, 549

Perez, Joe, 423

Peterson, Justin, 537

Petrobras, 53

PetroChina, 595

Petrofina, 61

Petroleum Intelligence Weekly,
319

PETRONAS, 159, 172, 368, 369–70

Philippines, 457

Phillips, Jeanne, 569

phthalates, 481–87, 489–91

pink salmon, 127–29

Pinochet, Augusto, 287

Pizzurro, Joseph, xv, 432–33

Plunkett, Hobert E., 425–26

Podesta, John, 539

politburo, Chinese, 243

Polkey, Steven, 378–79

Powell, Colin, xiv, 89, 90, 112, 146, 147, 240, 277, 401, 514, 520

Obiang’s meeting with, 294–95

precautionary principle, 480, 484–85

President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, 569

PricewaterhouseCoopers, 263

Prince William Sound, 3, 7

commercial fisheries in, 127–29

scientific surveys of, 122–25, 128–33

see also
Exxon Valdez
disaster

production sharing agreements (P.S.A.), 256, 257, 259

Pryor, Stephen, 493

P. T. Pertamina, 102

Public Interest Research Group, 484, 487

Public Interest Watch, 188

Putin, Vladimir, xv, 249, 254, 257, 258–59, 260–61, 275, 276, 418

Evans’s conversations with, 250–51, 268, 277–79

G. W. Bush and, 250–51, 252

Khodorkovsky’s conflict with, 261, 263–65

New York visit of, 271–72

proposed U.S.-Russia oil partnership and, 267–68

Raymond’s meetings with, 272–74

siloviki (security men) of, 270–71

Tillerson’s meeting with, 621–22

Qatar, 18, 62, 202, 206, 222, 276, 498, 542, 564, 580, 581, 617

Al-Thanis family of, 195

ExxonMobil and, 198–99

Mobil’s natural gas partnership with, 198

natural gas of, 195, 197–200

North field of, 194–99

Qatar Petroleum, 198

Rahman, Nordin Abdul, 116

Rainbow Warrior,
26

Rainforest Action Network, 536

Ramos, Maria, 186–87

Randall, Jack, 577–79, 581–82, 583

Randol, Arthur G., III “Randy,” 84, 91, 183

Rawl, Lawrence G., 6–7, 9, 11, 14–15, 26, 27, 47, 49, 62, 209, 611

Raymond, Charlene, 9, 43–44, 45, 68, 314, 326–27

Raymond, Lee R., xiii, 12, 16, 18, 19, 21, 35, 37, 73, 93, 96, 104, 106, 107, 120, 143, 158, 161, 162, 171, 172, 180–81, 191, 192–93, 194–95, 220, 223, 224, 226, 251, 254, 255, 275, 278, 301, 340, 341, 354, 417, 418, 437, 442, 446, 464, 488, 504, 523, 562, 575, 580, 581, 583, 591, 594, 596, 598, 599, 609, 611, 622, 624

Beijing address of, 81–83

Chad policy and, 163, 165–66

Cheney’s friendship with, 67–70, 71, 239–40, 247–48, 276

C.I.M.S. created by, 190

climate change skepticism of, 77, 79–83, 84, 88–89, 181, 182, 183, 184–85, 187, 217, 309, 311, 337–38, 506, 535, 583

educating Washington campaign and, 303–5

Exxon career of, 46, 48–49

Exxon Valdez
incident and, 9–13, 14, 15–16, 33

forecasts practice and, 306–7, 309

Greenspan’s friendship with, 200–201

on Iraqi oil, 246–47, 248

Khodorkovsky’s meetings with, 268–70

leadership of, 50–51

lifestyle of, 42–46

lobbying policy of, 74–77

management philosophy of, 29–30, 32, 38, 40–41

mental qualities of, 47–48

Mobil merger and, 134, 139, 587, 594–95

Naimi’s meeting with, 208–9

nicknames of, 45, 47

physical appearance of, 46–47

postmerger restructuring and, 216–17

professional reputation of, 44–45

Putin’s meetings with, 272–74

Qatar natural gas deal and, 198–99

Reso kidnapping incident and, 26–27

retirement of, 324, 326–27, 344, 489

Saudi natural gas initiative and, 202, 203–9

Senate testimony of, 320–22

Sprow’s assessment of, 178–79

succession question and, 209–12, 314–18

Voluntary Principles regime and, 404–5

working style of, 45–46

Reagan, Ronald, 68, 238, 605

Reagan administration, 159, 182, 237, 548

Reid, Harry, 549

Reilly, William K., 15

Renewable Fuels Association, 446

Republican National Committee, 91

Republican Party, U.S., 302, 340, 504

ExxonMobil contributions to, 495–96

Reso, Patricia, 25, 27

Reso, Sidney J., 25–29, 30, 32

resource curse thesis, 166–67, 240, 360, 440, 461

resource nationalism, 51, 52–57, 70, 139, 199, 410, 417, 547, 558, 615

Exxon-Mobil merger and, 60–66

Royal Dutch Shell scandal and, 188–89

share buybacks and, 63–64

Response Group, The, 608–9

return on capital employed (R.O.C.E.), 49–50, 595–96

Reuters, 591

Rice, Condoleezza, 146, 240, 252, 365–66

Obiang’s meeting with, 518–20

Rice, Jeep, 131, 133

Riggs Bank, 144–45, 152–53, 286–87, 290, 294, 295, 298, 509, 638
n

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, 642
n

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, 641
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