Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power (99 page)

Interior Ministry, Saudi, 207

Internal Revenue Service, 188

International Committee of the Red Cross, 111

International Labor Rights Forum, 119

International Monetary Fund (I.M.F.), 259, 358

International Peace Operations Association, 281

International Space Station, 252

Internet, 441–42

I.P.T., 374

Iran, 2, 52, 54, 161, 196, 197, 203, 205, 222, 245, 246, 247, 249, 415, 419, 421, 436, 440, 511–12, 519, 520, 567, 618

Iranian Revolution of 1979, 29, 52, 95, 239, 242

Iraq, 52, 54, 197, 203, 205, 222, 228, 281, 293, 360, 419, 436, 440, 641
n

Kurdish oil industry in, 567–69, 622–23

oil reserves of, 230, 248, 249, 558

Rumaila oil field of, 571

Sunni-Shia rift in, 559, 622

West Qurnah oil field of, 572, 574, 575, 622

Zubair oil field of, 575

Iraq National Oil Company, 231

Iraq Petroleum Company, 231

Iraq War, 227–30, 243, 303, 324, 435, 499

Bush (G. W.) administration and, 228, 231, 236–37, 247–48

ExxonMobil operations in, 561–65, 573–75

Haifa pipeline debate in, 233–35

Hunt-Kurdish oil deal in, 569–71

insurgency in, 236

Iraqi nationalism in, 563

Iraqi oil industry in, 232–37, 248, 559, 562–63, 564–68

oil concessions auction in, 557–60, 571–73

postwar planning in, 232–37

“stealing” Iraqi oil question in, 227–33

Iraq War (
cont.
)

U.S. invasion in, 226, 228

U.S. war aims in, 228–29

Israel, 3, 18, 29, 237, 296, 440, 525, 530

Equatorial Guinea’s relations with, 516–17

Haifa pipeline and, 233–34

Italy, 197–98

Jackson, Lorie, 341, 549, 554

Jacksonville Exxon, 371–79,
377,
488

lawsuits and, 384–93, 620–21

oil leak from, 374–79,
377,
384, 390–91

Jacobs, Emil, 447–48

Jaffe, Amy Myers, 325, 326

Janka, David, 123, 130

Japan, 95, 197, 255, 439, 449, 547

Jefferies Group, Inc., 578

Jeffers, Alan, 494

Jendrzejczyk, Mike, 220–21

Jobs, Steve, 577

John Doe I et al. v. ExxonMobil Corporation et al.,
120, 399–406, 621

Johnson, Donald C., 509

Johnson, Lance, 109

Johnston, J. Bennett, 73

Joint Special Operations Command (JSOP), 173, 174

Joint Task Force, Nigerian, 456

Jordan, 66, 233–34, 558, 562, 567

J.P. Morgan, 49, 335, 588

Justice Department, U.S., 142, 298, 401, 622

Kagan, Robert, 5

Kaharuddin (rebel), 395

Kamarck, Elaine, 537

Kansteiner, Walter, 174, 622

Kareri, Simon, 152–53, 287

Karl, Terry Lynn, 166

Kasim, Ifdhal, 103

Katrina, Hurricane, 319

Kauffmann, Howard, 37

Kazakhstan, 18, 58, 59, 62, 70, 168, 222, 252

Kearl project, 548, 598

Keller, Laura, 481

Kellogg Brown & Root, 461

Kellogg’s company, 216

Kelly, John, 523

Kelso, Dennis, 10, 12

Kemnetz, Frank, 322

Kennedy, John F., 77

Kenya, 66, 172, 173, 369, 531

Kerr, Lauren, 338

Kerry, John, 343, 507, 550

Kheshgi, Haroon, 79

Khodorkovsky, Mikhail, xv, 259–60, 622

arrest of, 274–75, 276, 418

Browne’s meeting with, 264–65

Dart and, 262

political ambition of, 264, 265–66

Putin’s conflict with, 261, 263–65

Raymond’s meetings with, 268–70

U.S.-Russia oil relationship and, 266–67

Yukos negotiations and, 260–65, 268–69, 270–71

Kingston, David, 343, 346

Kittywake II,
122

Kohl, Herb, 340

Koonce, Terry, 255–56

Korea, Republic of (South Korea), 197, 198

Kosovo conflict, 280

Kreindler, Tony, 552–53

Kruger, Richard, 493

Kunkel, James, 5

Kurdish Regional Government, 567–70

Kuwait, 59, 144, 195, 222, 228, 291, 326, 510, 511, 564, 566, 574, 575

Kuwait Petroleum, 53

Kwiatkowski, Karen, 173–74

Kyoto Protocol, 81–84, 85–86, 89, 183, 187, 226, 301, 479, 535

Labor Party, British, 106

Laidlaw, Sam, 566

Lambert, Richard, 63

Lansdale, Edward, 96

Larson, Alan, 146, 147, 148–49

LaSala, Stephen, 493

Latham & Watkins, 431

Lautenberg, Frank, 320

Lavrov, Sergey, 277

Lazard (bank), 428, 431, 433

Leahy, Don, 138–39

Lebedev, Platon, 271

Le Billon, Philippe, 166–67

Le Floch-Prigent, Loik, 171

Lehman Brothers, 540, 588

Leiter, David, 343, 507, 550, 551

Levin, Carl, 299

LeVine, Steve, 192, 634
n

Lewis, William “Buford,” 73, 75, 342, 445

Library of Congress, 266

Libya, 52, 97, 155, 159, 162, 166, 172, 197, 222, 246, 531

Life,
77

Lincoln, Abraham, 541–42

Lincoln, Blanche, 551

Lindeberg, Mandy, xv, 122–25, 131–32, 136

Logo Logistics, 288

Loiero, Andrea, xv, 372, 375–76, 378, 379, 390

Longwell, Harry, 99, 172, 209, 217

Lowe, Leslie, 345–46

Lujan, Manuel, Jr., 15

Lukoil, 266, 271

Lund, Ray, 144–45

Lutz, Peter, 609

Luzzatto, Tamera, 550

Lyons, Virginia, 485

McCain, John, 497–99, 503–4, 505, 607

McCall, Steve, 5

McChrystal, Stanley, 173, 174

McDonald, David, 570

McElroy, Michael B., 446

Mach, Joe, 262

Macías Nguema, Francisco, 137–38, 140, 141

McKee, Rob, 565–67

McKinsey & Company, 263

McMurray Formation, 544

Madec, Andre, 151, 363

Maduekwe, Ojo, 474

Mahmud, Malik, 117, 118

Makovsky, Michael, 233–34

Malaysia, 97, 103, 172

Maliki, Nouri Al-, 558, 574

Manchin, Joe, 552

Mandelson, Peter, 611

Mann, Simon, xiv, 284–86, 288–89, 524–25, 527, 644
n

Marathon Oil, 140, 142, 146, 147, 149, 150, 151, 262, 283, 291, 297, 299, 514, 515, 520, 529

Marbun, B. N., 104

Marcellus Shale, 577

Martyrs Brigade, 456

Massey, J. R., 428, 430–31

Maya, Ruben, 516

Mearsheimer, John, 244–45, 246

Menatep, 260–62

M.E.N.D. (Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta), 456–57, 463–67, 468, 470–71, 473–74, 476, 529

methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE), 381–82, 384–86, 445, 488–89

Metropolitan Club, 613–14

Mexico, 440, 453

Military Professional Resources International (M.P.R.I.), 147–48, 283, 291, 295, 296, 514, 525

Milov, Vladimir, 261, 275

Minerals Management Service (M.M.S.), 606, 608–9

Minyard, Robert, 431

Misamore, Bruce, xv, 262–64, 265, 267, 271, 273–74

Mitchell, George P., 584

Mitchell, Jeanne O., 73, 75, 342, 494

Mitchell Energy, 584

Moats, Simeon, 72, 162, 521–22

Mobil Exploration Nigeria, Inc., 465

Mobil Oil, 36, 40, 161, 203, 325, 413–14, 416

Aceh war and, 93–98, 102–3, 105, 106, 107, 143

Equatorial Guinea oil deals of, 139–40, 142

Exxon’s buyout of, 60–66

liquid natural gas business and, 197–98

Nigeria operations of, 465–67