Posts on ‘February 12th, 2007’

Shell Imperial Grand Challenge Programme to address energy challenge – News Release  Monday 12 February 2007 Discovering ways to produce cleaner fossil fuels will be the focus of a new multi-million pound joint research programme between Imperial College London and Royal Dutch Shell plc, to be launched on Thursday 15 February. The Shell Imperial Grand [...]

RBC, 12.02.2007, Moscow 15:28:54.Russia will assist in supplying liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the Sakhalin-2 project, Russian Industry and Energy Minister Viktor Khristenko said during a meeting with the Japanese Ambassador to Russia Yasuo Saito. According to Khristenko, Russia plans to meet the deadlines specified in the contracts. Meanwhile, Saito pointed out that joint projects [...]

By SCOTT BAUER / Associated Press Writer MADISON, Wis. — Gov. Jim Doyle will propose taxing big oil companies more than $270 million over the next two years to help pay for the state’s transportation needs. Doyle said the assessment will equate to $1.50 per barrel of oil sold in the state, and the companies [...]

BY CALUDIA CATTANEOCalgary Bureau Chief Financial Post ccattano@nationalpost.com CALGARY • Russian President Vladimir Putin’s tightening grip over his country’s oil sector is good news for Canadian energy companies looking to invest there, said a top official with the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. First vice-president Varel Freeman said the Russians are making their rules [...]

By Upstream staff BG Group has signed a deal with Nigeria LNG (NLNG) to buy liquefied natural gas for shipment to the US, the UK company said today. BG Group has agreed a 20-year deal to take 2.25 million tonnes a year of LNG from NLNG’s planned Train 7 project in Finima, Bonny Island. Deliveries [...]

By Upstream staff Oil companies in Port Harcourt, the main city in Nigeria’s oil-producing Niger Delta, have reinforced security for their staff following a wave of kidnappings and attacks, industry sources said today. Two security experts working for oil majors said companies had enforced a lockdown, meaning that staff were not able to leave their [...]

Bby Ray – WSM (personal capacity) Monday, Feb 12 2007, 1:34pm The Cork branch of the Workers’ Solidarity Movement Thuesday 28 Feb held a public meeting in the Quality Hotel, Shandon, Cork, which was attended by about twenty people. There was a high number of familiar faces from the Shell to Sea campaign, and a [...]

Monday, 12 February 2007 11:48 The Shell oil company has taken the first step to secure planning permission from An Bord Pleanála for a controversial gas pipeline through north Mayo. Shell has sought what are termed ‘pre-application discussions’ under the new Strategic Infrastructure Act to clarify procedures for lodging an application. The Act came into [...]

Published: Monday, 12 February, 2007, 09:17 AM Doha Time Business Reporter QATARGAS is celebrating 10 years of its existence by bringing to Doha all its customers worldwide which helped the state’s first LNG producer to clock 10mn tonnes a year production figure, exceeding the target. The formal celebrations will be kicked off this evening with [...]

(All at sea: the big oil companies fear that the Government’s assessments of oil and gas reserves are too optimistic) By Roland Gribben Last Updated: 11:34pm GMT 11/02/2007 Optimistic Government assessments about North Sea oil and gas prospects will be tempered by industry reservations in a survey due out today.   Oil companies are concerned the [...]

They’re pushing other energy sources, more effective ways of producing gas The Associated Press HOUSTON – With dwindling oil supplies, pollution concerns and the ever-present threat of high gas prices, talk of new and better ways to fuel our cars, heat and cool our homes, and power our factories has never been greater. What’s more, [...]

EXTRACT: A possible option is for BHP Petroleum and Woodside to merge into a separate listed structure. Woodside’s biggest shareholder, Royal Dutch/Shell Group, could throw in more assets to maintain its 34 per cent stake of the bigger group, and BHP would be the biggest shareholder, with a 50 per cent stake of the new [...]

HOUSTON (Reuters) – Shell Oil Co. said on Sunday operations were back to normal at its 156,000-barrel-per-day San Francisco Bay area refinery in Martinez, California, after emergency flaring on Friday. The refinery carried out an emergency depressurization of equipment at the refinery on Friday night, according to a notice filed with the California Office of [...]

Canada’s oil companies are preparing themselves for possible tax increases and environmental controls from a Conservative government under pressure to enforce tougher policies on the industry, according to a letter obtained by the Toronto Globe and Mail. In a letter to Indian Affairs Minister Jim Prentice, Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers chairwoman Kathleen Sendell addressed [...]