Posts on ‘March 8th, 2007’

Source: mad.co.uk | Author: Melinda Varley | Published: 08 March 2007 13:45 Fuel supplier Royal Dutch Shell is launching a new global marketing campaign created by MediaCom and JWT. The aim of the campaign uses a series of long-format films to highlight the culture of innovation at Shell and aims to position the fuel company [...]

  2-8 March 2007   Russia and China are pursuing overtly nationalist policies in their grabbing of oil and mineral assets. An as we explain, Western firms – and shareholders – are losing out. By In a blaze of publicity over Christmas, the Russian government effectively expropriated from Shell and its Japanese partners a majority [...]

By Stephen Voss March 8 (Bloomberg) — Royal Dutch Shell Plc, Europe’s largest oil company, will maintain its links with the biggest Dutch bank by naming ABN Amro Holding NV’s chief executive officer as a Shell director when a former ABN banker retires from Shell’s board. Shell intends to elect ABN Amro’s Rijkman Groenink as [...]

Claudia Cattaneo Calgary Bureau Chief, Financial Post Published: Thursday, March 08, 2007 CALGARY – Value Creation Inc., a closely held oilsands company, yesterday unveiled a new integrated oilsands project in northern Alberta it says can beat the two major obstacles facing the business — high costs and high greenhouse-gas emissions. While other developers are delaying [...]

SELF-EXPLANATORY EMAIL SENT TO SHELL INTERNATIONAL GENERAL COUNSEL, KEITH RUDDOCK ON 08 March 2007 Copied to Shell CEO Jeroen van der Veer, Malcolm Brinded (Executive Director Shell EP),  Jorma Ollila (SHELL Chairman), Richard Wiseman (General Counsel),  Michiel Brandjes(Company Secretary Royal Dutch Shell Plc) and Kieron McFadyen (Head of Shell HSE) Subject: Shell Fatalities Dear Mr [...]

(Interfax News Agency Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge) MOSCOW. (Interfax) – Russian Federal Ecological, Technological and Nuclear Oversight Service (Rostekhnadzor) Director Konstantin Pulikovsky has approved an expert review on the safety of a new oil platform for the Sakhalin-2 project, the service said in a statement.

By  Hashem Kalantari         TEHRAN: French energy major Total SA (TOT) has until the end of March to decide on its investment in the upstream development of phase 11 of the South Pars gas field in the Persian Gulf, an Iranian Oil Ministry official said Wednesday. Akbar Torkan, managing director of the state-owned Pars Oil and [...]

By KRISTEN HAYS Exxon Mobil Corp. aims to start more than 20 new global projects in the next three years and increase exploration and production spending this year to cover higher costs of finding oil and natural gas, top executives of the world’s largest oil company told analysts Wednesday in New York. Exxon Mobil CEO [...]

By Trisha Huang March 8 (Bloomberg) — Shanghai Secco Petrochemical Co., half owned by BP Plc, may expand its capacity to produce ethylene 28 percent by 2009, a company spokeswoman said. Shanghai Secco may boost its ethylene capacity to as much as 1.15 million tons a year from 900,000 metric tons today, said Angela Qian, [...]

2007-03-07 | MMS Allows Contentious Oil and Gas Exploratory Activities to Move Forward Without Public Review (Ed. Note: With apologies for late posting.) Fairbanks, Alaska – Today (20 Feb.) the Minerals Management Service (MMS) announced that they will allow Shell Oil to conduct potentially damaging exploratory oil and gas activities in the Beaufort Sea without [...]

Company Pegs Capital Spending at $20 Billion By GRAINNE MCCARTHY March 7, 2007 6:36 p.m. NEW YORK — A hefty speculative premium in the price of oil — driven by concerns over the reliability of global supply — still remains, Exxon Mobil Corp.’s chief executive said. The company, meanwhile, plans to spend $20 billion annually [...]

By Fiona Harvey,Environment Correspondent Published: March 8 2007 02:00 | Last updated: March 8 2007 02:00 Gordon Brown is backing plans for a global conference on greenhouse gas emissions trading in London inan attempt to capitaliseon the UK’s lead in the field. The chancellor’s commitment emerged yesterday as business leaders met Mr Brown at 11 [...]

Edited by Simon Goodley Last Updated: 2:17am GMT 08/03/2007 Trouble for Shell, forced into a massive U-turn on its plans to race F1 cars around the City, part of an ad campaign scuppered by the City of London and the rozzers. “We’re looking for another city,” fumes an insider, who confirms that the ad will [...]