接着读一下史蒂夫·科尔（Steve Coll）的《私有帝国：埃克森美孚与美国权力》（Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power），你就能对过去约120年来的石油与美国历史有一个精彩且极具说服力的全面了解。
Follow that up with Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power by Steve Coll and you've got a fascinating and compelling look at the last ~120 years of oil and American history.
The book "Private Empire" by Steve Coll is excellent on this. Unbearably frustrating at points, because it seems that Exxon were well aware of the issue and there were some suggestions rolling around that would have made them…
…required to export gas. (OT: if anyone in Silicon Valley thinks theirs is the only industry ripe with crazy schemes, insane pivots and huge disruptions, read up on energy. The Prize by Daniel Yergin, Private Empire by Steve Coll and The Frackers by Gregory Zuckerman are the places to start)
…fossil fuel czar, Igor Sechin, Exxon's role in building the technologically advanced Sakhalin natural gas project and its LNG export system, etc. For anyone interested in that history, Steve Coll's "Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power" has a whole chapter on it: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13372977-private-empire See also stories like this (2011) > "Where BP had planned to swap stock, Exxon,…
…happened. This Ukraine war is just more of the same (plus, a new Cold War is good for military procurement budgets). Of course, energy geopolitics isn't the only issue, but anyone who has read Steve Coll's "Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power", or Daniel Yergin's "The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power" will recognize it's often the central reason for international conflicts. As far as the clearly…
…atrocious 'Western values' records but which are compliant with US corporate interests. Equatorial Guinea was one such example, with dictator Obiang and his ExxonMobil contract. Steve Coll mentions this in "Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power" (2012): > "Fortunately for Obiang, coup-prone African governments rolling in oil but lacking in arms and intelligence to defend their bounty had a discrete alternative…
接着读一下史蒂夫·科尔（Steve Coll）的《私有帝国：埃克森美孚与美国权力》（Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power），你就能对过去约120年来的石油与美国历史有一个精彩且极具说服力的全面了解。
Follow that up with Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power by Steve Coll and you've got a fascinating and compelling look at the last ~120 years of oil and American history.
史蒂夫·科尔写的《私有帝国》（Private Empire）这本书在这方面写得太绝了。读到某些地方会让人无比抓狂，因为看起来埃克森对这个问题心知肚明，当时也有不少提议本来能让他们……
The book "Private Empire" by Steve Coll is excellent on this. Unbearably frustrating at points, because it seems that Exxon were well aware of the issue and there were some suggestions rolling around that would have made them…
……出口天然气所需的（题外话：要是硅谷有人觉得自己这个行业才是唯一充满了疯狂方案、离谱pivot和巨型颠覆的地方，去读读能源行业吧。丹尼尔·耶金的《奖赏》、史蒂夫·科尔的《私有帝国》和格雷戈里·祖克曼的《页岩革命》，是绝佳的入门读物）。
…required to export gas. (OT: if anyone in Silicon Valley thinks theirs is the only industry ripe with crazy schemes, insane pivots and huge disruptions, read up on energy. The Prize by Daniel Yergin, Private Empire by Steve Coll and The Frackers by Gregory Zuckerman are the places to start)
……化石燃料沙皇伊戈尔·谢钦（Igor Sechin）、埃克森在建设技术先进的萨哈林天然气项目及其LNG出口系统中的角色等等。如果有人对这段历史感兴趣，史蒂夫·科尔的《私有帝国：埃克森美孚与美国权力》有一整章都在讲这个：https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13372977-private-empire 还可以看看像这样的报道（2011年）> “在BP原本计划进行换股的地方，埃克森……
…fossil fuel czar, Igor Sechin, Exxon's role in building the technologically advanced Sakhalin natural gas project and its LNG export system, etc. For anyone interested in that history, Steve Coll's "Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power" has a whole chapter on it: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13372977-private-empire See also stories like this (2011) > "Where BP had planned to swap stock, Exxon,…
……发生了。这次俄乌战争不过是重蹈覆辙罢了（而且，打一场新冷战对军购预算很有利）。当然，能源地缘政治并不是唯一的问题，但读过史蒂夫·科尔的《私有帝国：埃克森美孚与美国权力》或者丹尼尔·耶金的《奖赏：石油、金钱与权力的大博弈》的人都会明白，它往往是国际冲突的核心导火索。至于那些明摆着的……
…happened. This Ukraine war is just more of the same (plus, a new Cold War is good for military procurement budgets). Of course, energy geopolitics isn't the only issue, but anyone who has read Steve Coll's "Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power", or Daniel Yergin's "The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power" will recognize it's often the central reason for international conflicts. As far as the clearly…
……在‘西方价值观’上的记录烂透了，但对美国公司的利益却言听计从。赤道几内亚就是这样一个例子，独裁者奥比昂及其与埃克森美孚的合同。史蒂夫·科尔在《私有帝国：埃克森美孚与美国权力》（2012）中提到过这点：> “对奥比昂来说幸运的是，那些政变频发、富得流油却缺乏武器和情报来守住这笔横财的非洲政权，有了一个心照不宣的替代选择……
…atrocious 'Western values' records but which are compliant with US corporate interests. Equatorial Guinea was one such example, with dictator Obiang and his ExxonMobil contract. Steve Coll mentions this in "Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power" (2012): > "Fortunately for Obiang, coup-prone African governments rolling in oil but lacking in arms and intelligence to defend their bounty had a discrete alternative…