Syriana
Clooney, George Damon, Matt Gaghan, Stephen
Syriana - UK Warmer Bros Entertainment 2005 - 2videdisc(128min)
Syriana is a 2005 American political thriller film written and directed by Stephen Gaghan. U.S. energy giant Connex Oil is losing control of key oil fields in a Persian Gulf Kingdom ruled by the Al-Subaai family. The Emirate's foreign minister, Prince Nasir, has granted natural gas drilling rights to a Chinese company, greatly upsetting the U.S. oil industry and the U.S. government. To compensate for its decreased production capacity, Connex initiates a shady merger with Killen, a smaller oil company that recently won the drilling rights to Kazakhstan's Tengiz Field. If Connex-Killen were a country, it would rank as the world's twenty-third largest economy, and antitrust regulators at the DOJ have concerns. A Washington, D.C.-based law firm headed by Dean Whiting is hired to smooth the way for the merger. Bennett Holiday is assigned to promote the impression of due diligence to the DOJ, deflecting any allegations of corruption.
Political thriller film- American, oil and money, America and China, traders and spies, the Gulf States and Texas, reform and revenge, bribery and betrayal, Chinese company, antitrust regulation
791.4372 / SY-
Syriana - UK Warmer Bros Entertainment 2005 - 2videdisc(128min)
Syriana is a 2005 American political thriller film written and directed by Stephen Gaghan. U.S. energy giant Connex Oil is losing control of key oil fields in a Persian Gulf Kingdom ruled by the Al-Subaai family. The Emirate's foreign minister, Prince Nasir, has granted natural gas drilling rights to a Chinese company, greatly upsetting the U.S. oil industry and the U.S. government. To compensate for its decreased production capacity, Connex initiates a shady merger with Killen, a smaller oil company that recently won the drilling rights to Kazakhstan's Tengiz Field. If Connex-Killen were a country, it would rank as the world's twenty-third largest economy, and antitrust regulators at the DOJ have concerns. A Washington, D.C.-based law firm headed by Dean Whiting is hired to smooth the way for the merger. Bennett Holiday is assigned to promote the impression of due diligence to the DOJ, deflecting any allegations of corruption.
Political thriller film- American, oil and money, America and China, traders and spies, the Gulf States and Texas, reform and revenge, bribery and betrayal, Chinese company, antitrust regulation
791.4372 / SY-