Oil Wars

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In 1998, I was welcome to the BP Christmas celebration. It was held in the British Museum in the room where the Elgin Marbles are displayed. Champagne streamed and tasty canapés were served. I didn’t know anyone so I worked up determination and went up to a man with a BP sign on his lapel. I presented myself and clarified that I didn’t know why I had been welcomed. He ended up being the Managing Director, Chris Gibson-Smith, and he clarified that I had been welcomed on the grounds that BP has decided to turn into a human rights company. That was the source of this book. It was when BP was coming under open analysis for its conduct in Colombia, as were Shell in theNiger Delta and Exxon in Aceh. As one of the oil officials we between saw clarified, oil organizations are progressively investigating oilfields unstable pieces of the world; they are confronting what he depicted as the’social likeness remote ocean boring’. I and my partner Yahia Said decided that, as social researchers, it is our assignment to examine and analyze the ‘social likeness remote ocean penetrating’ and to work out what it might mean to be really a ‘human rights company’.Our thought was to consolidate my work on ‘new wars’ with the work of those researchers who had built up the idea of a petro-state, and therefore we moved toward Terry Karl and requested that her join our group.