Posts on ‘July 23rd, 2006’

EXPERT REPLY TO A LETTER PUBLISHED RECENTLY BY UPSTREAM PROGRESS WITH SAFETY- FACT OR FICTION! In reply to the letter from Bjorn Edlund, Upstream 23rd June, 2006 The Platform Safety Management Review (PSMR) was actually commissioned because Shell had experienced a number of serious incidents and the internal audit process was raising increasing numbers of [...]

THIS IS A REPLY BY AN EXPERT TO A RECENT LETTER PUBLISHED BY UPSTREAM  IS THE CURRENT SAFETY CASE REGIME FAILING? In reply to the letter from Ian Whewell, Head of HSE’s Offshore Safety Division (OSD) in Aberdeen, Upstream 14th July 2006 In the above letter Mr. Whewell refutes the statement that there is high [...]

By Upstream staff BILL Campbell developed a real passion for safety issues from an early age by learning the lessons from UK coal-mining disasters as to how best to protect workers against the ever-present threat of an industrial accident in a high-risk business, writes Christopher Hopson. Today, as a seasoned technical professional, he can rightly [...]

The following document has been supplied to us for immediate publication. We will leave it to our readers to speculate as to the identity of the author. It deals with the coments made by Royal Dutch Shell CEO, Jeroen van der Veer, in the leaked email we recently published: http://royaldutchshellplc.com/2006/07/20/shell-insider-letter-suppying-leaked-jeoroen-van-der-veer-brent-scandal-bs-email/ The Response Shell continue through press [...]

By John Donovan One of our readers, who shall remain nameless, has very kindly provided us with a copy of an internal email circulated in May 2003 by Mr Hans Bouman (a then senior manager at Shell) to a Shell colleague. It is of particular interest because it pre-dates the stunning news of the reserves [...]

Author: Thomas Blythe PROVIDENCE, R.I – The pier at the Port of Providence where a fire explosion occurred Tuesday night remains closed even as engineers began the delicate task of removing the remaining fuel from the pipes. Gasoline delivery at some Shell stations was disrupted since they reported that the fuel was completely over. The [...]

By Richard Orange 23 July 2006   Technology tends to be a trump card for those who argue oil and gas scarcity is an illusion. While some worried geologists fear oil production will peak, say, next year, their opponents – most of whom are economists – argue higher prices will spur new technologies that will [...]

EXTRACT: Earlier this year, rival Shell relaxed rules on its retirement age to extend the tenure of Rob Routs, one of its directors, to 62. THE ARTICLE By Rupert Steiner 23 July 2006 A RIFT has developed within the board of BP, the world’s second-largest oil company, over the future of chief executive Lord Browne. [...]

EXTRACT: This week BP and rival Shell could report record quarterly profits of about $6 billion each. The bumper figures come just as diesel is expected to hit £1 a litre for the first time tomorrow. THE ARTICLE July 23, 2006 By Tracey Boles   A LEADING shareholder in BP is calling for the company [...]

EXTRACT: Rosneft and BP are already partners on Sakhalin 5, an exploration block off the Russian island above Japan which could prove as big as the giant Sakhalin 2 project being developed by Shell. THE ARTICLE July 23, 2006 After the biggest float ever in the industry, the chief executive of the Russian oil giant [...]

July 23, 2006    YOU suggest Mayo will lose out if the current difficulties with the Corrib gas pipeline are unresolved (Editorial, last week). While I agree that aspects of the protest have unfortunately been hijacked, I find it difficult to embrace the supposed benefits suggested by Shell and echoed by yourselves and our own [...]

July 23, 2006 Extract from “News in Brief”  THE oil companies BP and Shell are expected to announce record profits this week as forecourt prices for petrol and diesel soar because of turmoil in the Middle East. The two firms’ earnings are forecast to be about £3.2 billion each for the three months to the [...]

EXTRACT: Precedents have been set recently. In May arch-rival Royal Dutch Shell relaxed its retirement age for one executive director and many believe a similar decision will allow Jeroen van der Veer, the company’s 58-year-old chief executive, to stay on beyond 60. THE ARTICLE By Sylvia Pfeifer, Deputy City Editor (Filed: 23/07/2006) City fears mount [...]

EXTRACT: If he has a final message for Western investors concerned about putting their money into Russia, given the demise of Yukos, it is, of course, a positive one. He reels off recent examples of Western oil companies that have committed hard cash to Russia, from BP, Royal Dutch Shell and America’s ConocoPhillips to Asian [...]