Tue Aug 28, 2012 9:59pm GMT * Company hampered by logistics * Needs to make progress soon to beat Arctic ice * Working toward first Chukchi drilling in two decades By Yereth Rosen ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Aug 28 (Reuters) – Royal Dutch Shell is seeking permission to extend its Arctic drilling season as it struggles with [...]
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Tar Sands – World’s Dirtiest Oil?
GUEST ARTICLE BY A REGULAR CONTRIBUTOR, A FORMER EMPLOYEE OF SHELL OIL CO I read your article about the concern over the management of Royal Dutch Shell’s tailings ponds that result from the open-pit mining of heavy tar deposits in Alberta. There are many lessons for the Canadian and Provincial governments to be learned [...]
Shell ramps up Qatari gas-to-diesel money machine
Tue Aug 28, 2012 8:38am EDT * Pearl GTL ramping up to full production * Plant is world’s biggest gas-to-liquids facility * Project development cost Shell $18-19 billion * High oil price, free gas input make it a money-spinner By Andrew Callus and Peg Mackey STAVANGER/LONDON, Aug 28 (Reuters) – – A Qatari project that [...]
NICE Shell Fizzback
NICE Fizzback Voice of the Customer Solution is Helping Shell UK Retail Increase Customer Satisfaction and Loyalty Across its Business RA’ANANA, Israel, August 28, 2012 — /PRNewswire/ – NICE Systems (NASDAQ: NICE) today announced that the retail division of Shell UK Oil Products (Shell), Royal Dutch Shell plc’s largest global group of energy and petrochemical [...]
The Shell Show, a tragicomedy in an unlimited number of parts
FROM OUR AUGUST 2004 SHELL NEWS ARCHIVE The Daily Telegraph: The landslide bringing down Shell grandees The SEC and FSA reports, however, go back to the previous regime, when Sir Mark Moody-Stuart was chairman.”: Even Shell fell for the “group bonding” mumbo-jumbo, and he was videoed stumbling blindfold around head office during one such session, [...]
Arctic sea ice hits record low, scientists say
By Juliet Eilperin, Monday, August 27, 5:28 PM NASA Goddard Space Flight Center – This visualization shows the extent of Arctic sea ice on Aug. 26, the day the sea ice dipped to its smallest extent ever recorded in more than three decades of satellite measurements. The line on the image shows the average minimum extent from [...]
Shell Seeks to Extend ’12 Oil-Drilling Time in U.S. Chukchi Sea
By Katarzyna Klimasinska on August 27, 2012 Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSA) is seeking additional drilling time in the Chukchi Sea off Alaska as delays have cost the company about two months of exploration this year. Shell has spent $4.5 billion to obtain drilling rights, purchase equipment and procure permits from various federal agencies in [...]
Federal scientists still wary of Shell’s Jackpine oilsands expansion
Documents reveal concerns ahead of fall public hearings into northern Alberta mine expansion The Canadian Press: Posted: Aug 27, 2012 12:18 PM ET A demonstration tailings pond in Shell’s Muskeg River oilsands mine in northern Alberta. The company’s ability to store the byproducts of oilsands extraction in a manner that doesn’t harm the environment is [...]
Shell seeks more time to drill exploratory well in Chukchi Sea
Shell says the Arctic Challenger will likely complete renovations in Bellingham, Wash., this week and set sail for Alaska (Handout photo / August 26, 2012) By Kim Murphy: August 26, 2012, 4:24 p.m. GIRDWOOD, Alaska — With its bid to launch offshore drilling in the Arctic Ocean running up against a deadline to protect against [...]
Report claims Shell paid warlords and militants not to attack its pipelines in the Niger Delta
By Rob Davies: PUBLISHED: 21:53, 26 August 2012 | UPDATED: 21:54, 26 August 2012 Shell paid warlords and militants not to attack its pipelines in the Niger Delta, contributing to armed violence in the troubled region, according to a new report. According to evidence obtained from leaked US Embassy cables and interviews with local people, [...]
Exclusive: Iraq pipeline delays threaten Shell’s Majnoon
Published: Sunday, 26 Aug 2012 | 9:40 AM ET BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Delays in Iraq’s pipeline construction threaten to stall production at Royal Dutch Shell’s <RDSa.L> Majnoon oilfield for at least three months, forcing the field to miss a 2012 target of 175,000 barrels per day, oil ministry documents showed.Wary of losses, Shell has asked [...]
Nigeria hits Shell with $1.5bn bill
Daily Telegraph: Nigeria hits Shell with $1.5bn bill “Shell and Nigeria’s state oil company would ultimately be forced to increase environmental spending in the country.” By James Moore (Filed: 26/08/2004) Shell faced fresh regulatory difficulties yesterday as the Nigerian Senate called on it to pay $1.5 billion (£840m) in compensation to pollution-hit communities living near [...]
Federal scientists still concerned over Shell’s Jackpine oilsands expansion
By Bob Weber, The Canadian Press | August 26, 2012 EDMONTON – Regulatory documents indicate federal scientists still have significant concerns over Shell’s proposed Jackpine oilsands mine expansion even as the project heads into public hearings. Five years after Shell Canada first proposed the 100,000-barrel-a-day project, it has been finally scheduled to go before a joint federal-provincial [...]
Nigeria: Shell’s Oily Friendship With Human Rights Abusers
The leak of documents from Shell reveal its deep financial ties to human rights abusers. Shell spent at least $383 million on security in Nigeria between 2007 and 2009, or a substantial 40% of the company’s billion-dollar global security spending, according to internal financial data leaked to oil watchdog Platform. Shell’s leaked data is analysed in a [...]
Why Libya’s ‘sweet’ crude oil is not enough to tempt BP or Shell
Libya is now producing 1.5m barrels of high-quality oil a day. But with exploration by BP and Shell so far disappointing, British involvement in the country remains slow Terry Macalister: The Observer, Sunday 26 August 2012 A decade ago Libya was at the centre of dramatic stories alleging cloak-and-dagger diplomacy between then-BP boss Lord Browne, [...]
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