This company's vice president for international operations, Sidney Reso, was kidnapped and murdered in 1992.
This company's vice president for international operations, Sidney Reso, was kidnapped and murdered in 1992. In 2001, this company was sued over human rights violations committed by members of the Indonesian military it hired as security personnel in Aceh. This company undermined the World Bank's loans to Chad, which were conditional on using revenues to fight poverty, by paying Idriss Deby enough money to back out of them. Those incidents were related in Steve Coll's book about this company, Private Empire, which also noted how its current CEO, (*) Rex Tillerson, partially reversed his predecessor Lee Raymond's policies on climate change. This company was the subject of a 2008 ruling that stated that punitive damages should not exceed compensatory damages in a maritime case; that ruling was in response to an accident involving its employee Joseph Hazelwood. This company was formed by the merger of the former Standard Oil of New Jersey and Standard Oil of New York. For 10 points, name this company whose Valdez tanker crashed in Alaska in 1989.
This company's vice president for international operations, Sidney Reso, was kidnapped and murdered in 1992.
ExxonMobil [or Esso; prompt on anything involving Exxon or Mobil]