Oh mighty fonts of DU knowledge:

[Kali]

Can somebody please quickly give me the names of a couple UAE oil buying gas company CEOs?

Somebody just sent ONE OF THOSE e-mails showing some Sheikh's overblown palace (a tad worse than graceland) and the comment about what $2.75 a gallon is buying. I want to throw back a question about where are the photos of fill-in-the-blank, CEO of fill-in-the-blank's pad?

[lyonn]

1. No idea Kali, but, I really like your heading!

[Kali]

6. hee hee better than google and with just the right (left)

political edge! DU's computer forum is the BEST!

[flamin lib]

2. How about Exxon's retireing CEO getting a $400+ retirement

package on top of the $millions he received as compensation plus stock options while he was "working"?

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=1841989

[Ghost Dog]

4. ExxonMobil is certainly there:

http://agonist.org/20060327/uae_exxonmobil_gains_access_to_field

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Stratfor - U.S. oil company ExxonMobil and subsidiaries signed partnership agreements on March 27 with United Arab Emirates (UAE) oil companies Supreme Petroleum Council (SPC) and Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) for access to the offshore Upper Zakum oil field near the UAE capital of Abu Dhabi. The deal provides ExxonMobil with a 24.64 percent stake in Zakum field, and ExxonMobil Abu Dhabi Offshore Petroleum Company Limited acquires 28 percent of ADNOC's 88 percent equity stake in the oil field. The agreements project an increase in ExxonMobil production to 750,000 barrels per day.

[notadmblnd]

3. Dave O’Reilly, Chairman and CEO of Chevron Corporation

Lee Raymond, Chairman and CEO of ExxonMobil Corporation. there's two for you

[Kali]

5. Thanks!

And a slight update - one of the other recipients reply-alled with the snopes correction you cand get the story here: http://www.snopes.com/photos/architecture/nahyan.asp

[Ghost Dog]

7. As far as I can see, Chevron produces in Kuwait, Qatar and Saudi,

but only distributes in UAE: http://www.chevron.com/operations/middle_east/map.asp

[Jack Rabbit]

8. If all you need is a familiar name, use Lee Raymond

Lee Raymond is retired, but is about as universal a villain as any oil company CEO has ever been.

[Emit]

9. Thomas Kean?

Are these the kinds of connections you're seeking?

Thomas Kean, Former Gov. of New Jersey Director, Chairman of the 9/11 Commission, director of the oil giant Amerada Hess: http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2002-12-16-kean_x.htm

See also: http://911review.org/Sept11Wiki/Kean,Tom.shtml

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Who did President Bush originally appoint to head the 9/11 Commission? None other than original Trilateral Commission member, Henry Kissinger. Kissinger accepted the appointment but resigned a month later amid accusations of "conflict of interest." Bush replaced Kissinger with Thomas Kean, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a director of the oil giant Amerada Hess, and who had business ties to Saudi Arabia and the GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council that was founded by Saudi Arabia in 1981; United Arab Emarites -- Dubai -- are members; Other members of the GCC include Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman and Qatar. -- compiled from elsewhere at the link, Emit)

The U.S./UAE Free Trade Agreement started by Zoellick in 2004 is due to be completed in March or April, 2006. This lucrative FTA is in jeopardy if the DP World takeover of U.S. ports does not proceed as planned. This may adequately explain the President's immediate and vehement support of the DP World deal -- to reject the UAE could easily kill the FTA and thus cost billions to global corporations.

http://www.augustreview.com/index.php?module=pagesetter&func=viewpub&tid=4&pid=12

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Related links: http://www.nationsencyclopedia.com/Asia-and-Oceania/United-Arab-Emirates-ENERGY-AND-POWER.html

http://www.referenceforbusiness.com/biography/F-L/Hess-John-B-1954.html