Introduction
Today’s lead Operator/Contractor for Guyana’s oil and gas operations, ExxonMobil, has an unenviable history as both a 1] exemplar zombie corporation and 2] strong proponent of corporate information warfare against climate policies and programmes targeted at a 2050s transition. Over this and the next column I shall review both verdicts and Guyana’s entanglement, starting with the latter listed item and the World Benchmarking Alliance, WBA’s verdicts.
ExxonMobil
The WBA has selected ExxonMobil for benchmarking because it is one of the 2000 most influential private businesses shaping and determining whether there is going to be a successful global climate transition. The corporation’s primary businesses – Upstream, Product Solutions and Low Carbon Solutions – provide products that are essential to modern life, including energy, chemicals, lubricants. Further, it holds industry-leading resources as an integrated fuels, lubricants and chemical company.