Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power (100 page)

premerger holdings of,
65

proposed BP merger with, 58–59

see also
ExxonMobil

Mobil Oil Indonesia, 99

Mobil Police, 465–66

Monks, Robert, 40–41

Moore’s Law, 441

Morel, Brian, 600

Morgan, Robert, 565

Morse, Edward L., 60

Mossad, 516–17

Moto, Severo, 282, 285, 286, 289

Mouawad, Jad, 501

Mugabe, Robert, 361

Mulva, James J., 50

Murphy, Kevin, 405

Naimi, Ali Al-, xv, 203, 208–9

National Academy of Sciences, 78, 79, 84, 444

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (N.A.S.A.), 78, 80

National Economics Council, 239, 303

National Energy Program, 238

National Environmental Trust, 85

National Human Rights Commission, Indonesian, 103, 104

National Intelligence Council, 162, 174

National Marine Fisheries Service, 123

National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (N.O.A.A.), 122–25, 129–32, 321

National Petroleum Council, 200

National Research Council, 78

National Security Council, 72, 113, 146, 147, 160, 231, 237–39, 267, 295, 303, 305, 438, 511, 515, 543

National Security Presidential Directive 50, 468

National Transportation Safety Board, 7

natural gas, 161, 443

advantages of, 196–97

“associated,” 207

domestic boom in, 577–78, 583, 590

ExxonMobil’s shift to, 195–96, 582–83, 586–87, 589–90

flaring practice and, 580

hydraulic fracturing technique for, 580, 584

liquefied, 197, 580–81, 586

Mobil and, 197–98

Nigeria’s reserves of, 453

predicted shortfall of, 582, 585–86

Qatar’s deposits of, 195–96

Russian reserves of, 251, 252–53

technological innovation and, 583–84, 585

unconventional (shale), 577, 580, 581, 582, 583–87, 590

U.S. market and, 200–201

U.S. reserves of, 581, 583, 585

see also
alternate energy

Natural Resources Defense Council, 484, 539, 552, 606

Nature Conservancy, 606

Nauman, Scott, 304

Navy, U.S., 243–45, 247, 468, 514, 516

Nelson, Dan, 301–4, 323, 338, 340–42, 343, 438, 443–44, 445, 488–89, 506, 507, 538, 548

Nelson, George, 8

Nelson, Ralph Daniel, xiii, 205–6, 207

neoconservatives, 147, 302

Netherlands, 94, 166, 253, 455

New Field Development, 158

Newman, Connie, 469

New York Stock Exchange, 272

New York Times,
95, 344, 501

Nickles, Don, 73

Niger Delta Development Commission, 454–55

Nigeria, 59, 95, 106, 111, 139, 141, 149, 150, 155, 159, 222, 282, 293, 303, 342, 419, 440, 450, 451–77, 496–97, 504, 516, 528, 580, 608, 614, 622

barge kidnapping incident in, 457–59

bunkering racket in, 463

Bush (G. W.) administration and, 468–69

corruption and violence in, 453–55, 461, 463–64, 476–77, 528–29

Eket kidnapping in, 452–54, 459–61, 464, 529

ExxonMobil operations in, 452–55, 464–65, 467, 596

insurgency groups in, 455–58, 463

Mobil operations in, 465–67

natural gas reserves of, 453

navy of, 471–72, 473, 475, 476

piracy and kidnapping in, 469–70, 473, 475–77

resource curse and, 461

U.S. and oil security in, 469–75

Nigerian Ijaw Martyrs, 456

Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (N.N.P.C.), 453–54

Nixon, Richard, 90, 437, 605

Norland, Donald, 168

North American Free Trade Agreement, 546

Northup, Anne, 496

Norway, 66, 523

Noto, Lou, 58–59, 60, 61, 64–66, 95–96, 104, 198, 202–3

Nouri, Mahamat, 357

Nowak, Manfred, 512

Nudelman, Janet, 491

Nugua, Francisco, 515

Obama, Barack, xiv, 497, 505–6, 507, 508, 513, 538, 548, 549, 550–51, 607, 622, 623

on cap-and-trade, 540–41

Chad visit of, 368–70

Déby’s meeting with, 368–70, 647
n

energy and climate policy of, 497–500, 503, 505, 540–41, 542, 543–44, 545–48

offshore drilling issue and, 607–8

stimulus bill of, 540

2008 election and, 497–500, 531

Obama administration, 513, 531–32, 535, 548, 551, 574, 622–23

Obasanjo, Olusegun, 454, 464

Oberdorfer, Louis F., xiv, 400–401, 402–3, 406–7

Obiang, Gabriel, 287–88, 525–26

Obiang, Teodorin, 525, 526–28, 622

Obiang, Teodoro Nguema, xiv, 140–41, 150–51, 164, 297, 298, 299, 356, 509, 510, 512–13, 528, 529–30, 622

arms purchases and, 517–18

attempted coup and, 282–84, 286–87, 289, 291

Gamble’s meeting with, 296–97

Israel relations and, 516–17

Powell’s meeting with, 294–95

Rice’s meeting with, 518–20

Riggs Bank and, 144, 152–53, 287–88

succession question and, 525–26

U.S. relations and, 141–49, 151, 152, 283, 291, 294

Occidental Petroleum, 342, 548–49

Oceaneering International, 451

offshore drilling, 542–43

accident response plans and, 616

blowout preventer and, 607

deaths and injuries and, 607

ExxonMobil and, 608–9

federal regulation of, 606–7

in Gulf of Mexico, 604–5, 611

leasing and, 607

Obama and, 607–8

Oil Spill Response Plan and, 608–9

politics and, 605–6

Santa Barbara blowout and, 605

2008 election and, 607

see also
Deepwater Horizon
disaster

oil:

biomass origin of, 126–27

poisonous effects of, 126, 128–31

Oil and Energy Working Group, 232

Oil & Gas Journal,
251, 544

Oil Drum, The,
593

oil embargoes, 3, 29, 52, 80, 95, 237, 544

oil industry, 4, 17, 18, 191, 192

climate change debate and, 84–89, 310–11

climate policy and, 540–41

oil security and, 237–40

peak oil and, 420–21, 617

reserve replacement problem in, 54–57, 188–93

resource nationalism and, 51–55

retail gas stations and, 316–17

R.O.C.E. performance measures in, 49–50

Royal Dutch Shell scandal and, 188–89

Senate hearings on, 320–22

state-owned companies and, 53–54

2000 election and, 68–69

see also
alternate energy

Oil Ministry, Iraqi, 233, 559, 563–64, 571–72, 574

Oil Spill Response Plan, 608–9

Okah, Henry, 463

Old Field Development, 158

Olo, Juan, 142, 638
n

O’Melveny & Myers, 131

One Hundred Years of Solitude
(García Márquez), 601

O’Neill, Paul, 89, 91, 254–55

Open Russia Foundation, 266

Open Society program, 523

Operations Integrity Management System (O.I.M.S.), 32–33, 39, 41, 94, 164, 189–90, 223, 398, 405

Opinion Leader Dialogue, 343

O’Reilly, David J., 270, 320, 370

Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, 569

Organization of African Unity, 150

Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (O.P.E.C.), 52, 59, 204, 222, 233, 238

O.S.D.-Policy, 280

O’Sullivan, Meghan, 568, 570–71

Owei, Comrade, 456

Oxfam, 167, 169

Ozone Action, 181

Pacala, Stephen, 311

PACER (computer system), 381

Pacific Gas & Electric, 625

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, 90

Page, David S., 132–35

Panic Room
(film), 475

Panjaitan, Luhut, 114–15

Papua New Guinea, 461