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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