Posts under ‘Alternative Fuels’

UK fraud authorities are “urgently reviewing” whether to launch an investigation into companies that may have rigged the oil market and driven up petrol costs for millions of drivers. By Rowena Mason and Christopher Hope: 7:06PM BST 16 May 2013 The Serious Fraud Office said it is considering an inquiry, after European Commission officials raided [...]

By 2023, a Changed World in Energy By CLIFFORD KRAUSS: A version of this article appeared in print on April 25, 2013, on page F1 of the New York edition HOUSTON IF you could close your eyes for just a moment like Rip Van Winkle, and blink them open in 2023, you might see a [...]

By John Donovan Printed below is a deluded article written by a Shell exploration manager – Roland Spuij (prat on the right) – who apparently is totally ignorant of Shell’s track record of giving a higher priority to production and profits than to the safety of its offshore workers. Either that, or he is trying [...]

March 4, 2013 Oil and gas companies including BP and Shell will likely see declines in cash flows and credit downgrades if world leaders implement policies to limit GHG emissions, according to a study by Carbon Tracker and Standard & Poor’s. What A Carbon-Constrained Future Could Mean For Oil Companies’ Creditworthiness looks at how BP [...]

By Eduard Gismatullin & Sally Bakewell – Feb 28, 2013 12:01 AM GMT Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSA) says solar power, a business it abandoned four years ago, may expand into the world’s biggest source of energy in the next half century. The proposition that photovoltaic panels will be the main power source by 2070 [...]

By Wael Mahdi – Dec 11, 2012 8:00 AM GMT Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSA) invested $26 million in GlassPoint Solar Inc. to help it secure contracts in Kuwait, Bahrain, and Oman to extract dense crude using steam produced from a solar plant, the California-based company said in a statement. GlassPoint runs a 7-megawatt, four-acre [...]

Wed Dec 5, 2012 11:11am EST Dec 5 (Reuters) – Brazil’s antitrust regulator approved a joint venture between the sugar, ethanol and fuel distribution assets of milling group Cosan SA and Royal Dutch Shell Plc on Wednesday. The two companies originally announced the multi-billion dollar union of their Brazilian assets in 2010, later dubbing the [...]

Ahead of the Government’s gas strategy, Shell chief executive Peter Voser reveals why it is the fuel of the future and how he is riding the shale revolution. Peter Voser believes Shell is creating value out of the whole of the production and supply chain and that its exposure to gas growth is the jewel [...]

Earlier this year, Raizen, a biofuels company set up by Shell and COSAN scrapped controversial plans to source sugarcane from land stolen from the Guarani after a sustained campaign by the Indians and Survival. A Guarani man in front of sugarcane crops, grown where the tribe’s forests once stood. © Survival A US food giant [...]

Royal Dutch Shell has attacked the “ridiculous” impact of European energy policy, warning that governments are erasing the environmental benefits from expensive renewables by allowing coal use to increase. Europe is burning more coal, while demand for gas – which emits much less CO2 than coal – is declining Photo: GETTY IMAGES By Emily Gosden: 6:03PM [...]

Engineering begins on Iogen-based cellulosic plant in Brazil By Susanne Retka Schill | October 17, 2012 Ottawa-based Iogen Energy Corp. announced an initial investment by Raízen Group to develop a commercial cellulosic ethanol project in Brazil. Raízen, a joint venture between Royal Dutch Shell and Cosan SA is the world’s largest producer of sugarcane ethanol. [...]

A REGULAR CONTRIBUTOR SUGGESTS THAT THESE MAINLY SHELL RELATED ARTICLES MAY BE OF INTEREST TO SOME OF OUR READERS. LINKS PROVIDED. Shell and Stop & Shop Help Greater Boston Customers Save on Fuel Shell mulls bid in Iraq oil auction [National, The (United Arab … Pennsylvania’s Shell deal is bipartisan effort Vegetable oil fuel ‘David’ [...]

Jim Lane | September 5, 2012 Codexis, Shell redefine relationship; Codexis gains global rights; will lay off 133 staff; adopts anti-takeover measures; what does it mean for Shell, Raizen, Iogen, Codexis and Dyadic? What does it say about strategic investors in advanced biofuels? In California, Codexis announced that Shell has granted Codexis a royalty-bearing, non-exclusive [...]

The oil company opens a station in Newport Beach where hydrogen will be available at no charge, but only 200 cars statewide can take advantage of it. By Jerry Hirsch, Los Angeles TimesAugust 1, 2012, 4:45 p.m. Shell has opened a new station in Newport Beach where drivers fill up at no charge. That’s right: [...]

VARIETY OF LINKS SUPPLIED BY A REGULAR CONTRIBUTOR John, Some more links to a variety of information that may be of interest to your readers: Shell Fails To Get Its Arctic Oil Spill Barge Certified By The Coast Guard Shell Oil | ThinkProgress Who is getting bought off by big oil? [PDF] DEEP DRILLING, DEEP [...]