Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power (103 page)

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, 635
n

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

Venter, J. Craig, 549

Vershbow, Alexander, xiv, 251–54, 259, 267, 275

Verveer, Melanne, 302

Verveer, Phillip, 302

Vierbuchen, Richard, 557–60, 571, 573–74

Vital Voices, 302

Vogler, Gary, 233–34

Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights, 106–7, 220, 223, 404–5, 464, 475, 504

Wachem, Lodewijk van, 45–46

Wahid, Abdurrahman, 100, 112, 118

Wald, Charles, 515

Wales, Greg, 281–86, 289, 644
n

Walker, Lannon, 138

Wall, Marc, xiv, 359–60, 362–66, 368

Waller, Glenn, xiv, 255

Wall Street Journal,
587

Walmart, 20, 311, 326

Walter, Joe, 141–42

Walter International, 142

Walters, Tom, 164

Ward, Mark, 416

Warren, Andrew, 309

Warriors of the Rainbow, 26

Washington Post,
520

Watson, John, 591

Watt, James, 605

Waxman, Henry, 551, 552

Waxman-Markey bill, 552–53

Way to Win, The
(Halperin and Harris), 487

Weekly Standard,
547

Weill, Sandy, 315

Weinberg, Shannon, 491

Weinstein, Martin J., xiv, 400–404, 406

Welch, Jack, 74, 180

Wells, Theodore, Jr., 406–7

WEST Engineering Services, 607

Whelan, Theresa, 280, 293, 472, 474

Wales’s meeting with, 281–86

Whitman, Christine Todd, 90, 91

Wichita Daily Times,
333

Widjojo, Agus, 105

Williams, Anthony, 146

Williams, Mike, 602–3

Willkie Farr & Gallagher, 400, 406

Wilson, Ronald I., xiv, 99, 113, 114–15, 118, 398

Wojnar, Theodore, 493

Wolfensohn, James, 165, 168

Wolfowitz, Paul, xiv, 240

Chad crisis and, 360–66, 367

Woolsey, James, 240

World Bank, 144, 172, 174–76, 307, 368, 417, 418, 519

Chad-Exxon deal and, 163–69, 350, 353–56, 366–67, 369

Wolfowitz-Chad crisis and, 360–66, 367

World Forum, 260–70

World War I, 230, 237, 245

World War II, 245

XTO Energy, Inc., 577–78, 595, 596, 597, 598, 617

ExxonMobil’s merger with, 579, 582–83, 588–94

Yamamoto, Don, 365–66

Yeltsin, Boris, 256, 260

Yemen, 108, 569

Yergin, Daniel, 229

Yoadimnadji, Pascal, 364

Yost, Paul, 13–15

Young, Andrew, 370

Yukos, 260–65, 266–70, 271, 274, 276, 418

Yunus, Muhammad, 554

Yusgiantoro, Purnomo, 115

Zainal, Munawar, 116ed, 332

Zandona, Oliver, 72, 560–61, 563, 564, 568

Zayed, Khalifa bin, 323

Zimbabwe, 289, 360–61, 461, 531

Zoellick, Robe

Zakaria, Farert, 363

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