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8/1/2016<br />

Exxon Business Ambition Collided with Climate Change Under a Distant Sea | InsideClimate News<br />

After Exxon got the rights to develop the Natuna gas field, company<br />

researchers determined that the project site was contaminated with<br />

much more carbon dioxide than normal. This picture is from one of<br />

the company's documents exploring how to address the carbon<br />

dioxide issue.<br />

30m<br />

Mixed<br />

Layer<br />

In 1980, as Exxon Corp. set out to develop one of the<br />

world's largest deposits of natural gas, it found itself<br />

facing an unfamiliar risk: the project would emit<br />

immense amounts of carbon dioxide, adding to the<br />

looming threat of climate change.<br />

The problem cropped up shortly after Exxon signed<br />

a contract with the Indonesian state oil company to<br />

exploit the Natuna gas field in the South China Seabig<br />

enough to supply the blossoming markets of<br />

Japan, Taiwan and Korea with liquefied natural gas<br />

into the 21st century.<br />

engagement with the<br />

emerging science of<br />

climate change. The story<br />

spans four decades, and is<br />

based on primary sources<br />

including internal company<br />

files dating back to the late<br />

1970s, interviews with<br />

former company<br />

employees, and other<br />

evidence, much of which is<br />

being published here for<br />

the first time.<br />

It describes how Exxon<br />

conducted cutting-edge<br />

climate research decades<br />

ago and then, without<br />

revealing all that it had<br />

learned, worked at the<br />

forefront of climate denial,<br />

manufacturing doubt<br />

about the scientific<br />

consensus that its own<br />

scientists had confirmed.<br />

Find the entire project<br />

here.<br />

Assessing the environmental impacts, Exxon<br />

Research and Engineering quickly identified<br />

Natuna's greenhouse gas problem. The reservoir<br />

was contaminated with much more carbon dioxide<br />

than normal. It would have to be disposed of<br />

somehow—and simply venting it into the air could<br />

have serious consequences, Exxon's experts<br />

warned.<br />

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How We Got<br />

The Exxon Story<br />

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Exxon's dawning realization that carbon dioxide and<br />

the greenhouse effect posed a danger to the world<br />

collided with the company's fossil fuel ambitions.<br />

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https://insideclimatenews.org/news/08102015/Exxons-Business-Ambition-Collided-with-Climate-Change-Under-a-Distant-Sea 2/11

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