Private Empire: Exxonmobil And American Power
“and the Navy Solve This Problem?” Around 9 p.m. on October 3, 2006, seven ExxonMobil contract workers—four Scotsmen, a Romanian, a Malaysian, and an Indonesian—sat drinking in Nancy’s Bar, a bush-hut pub inside the oil corporation’s walled compound in Eket, Nigeria, in Akwa Ibom State, on the eastern side of the Niger River Delta. The compound sat on a rise beside the wide, muddy Qua River in downtown Eket, a tumbledown town of market stalls, flophouses, water-streaked concrete buildings, and ...shacks with rusting corrugated metal roofs. Billboards, cell phone towers, palm trees, and church steeples protruded into the low skyline. Motorcycles and scooters poured out smoky exhaust as they swarmed like schools of fish through streets flanked by open drains. The stenciled names of small contracting businesses and places of worship (sometimes colocated) suggested the striving ambition of a faith-influenced oil hamlet: “Divine Hands Ventures,” “Mount Zion Lighthouse,” and “Success World.”MoreLess
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