Posts under ‘New York Times’

 “One of the few blots on Mr. Voser’s record would be Shell’s high-profile exploration effort in Alaska, which has been plagued by accidents and other problems. Those difficulties have led Shell to suspend drilling until at least 2014.” “…candidates to replace the chief executive…”: “A third possibility is Marvin Odum, 54, an American, who runs [...]

A version of this op-ed appeared in print on April 29, 2013, on page A21 of the New York edition By ARNON GRUNBERG EXTRACTS ON April 30, 1980, Queen Juliana of the Netherlands was succeeded by her daughter Beatrix. That day was marked by violent rioting in Amsterdam. My parents, German Jews who fled to [...]

By BENJAMIN ALTER and EDWARD FISHMAN A version of this op-ed appeared in print on April 28, 2013, on page SR5 of the New York edition JUST as the world was writing off America as a declining power, the country now finds itself on the cusp of realizing one of its longstanding goals: energy independence. [...]

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 [...]

Graphic from The Guardian Article: Unloveable Shell: the Goddess of Oil By THE EDITORIAL BOARD A version of this editorial appeared in print on April 18, 2013, on page A26 of the New York edition The Supreme Court’s conservatives dealt a major blow Wednesday to the ability of American federal courts to hold violators of [...]

To Reinvigorate Production, Alaska Grants a Tax Break to Oil Companies By CLIFFORD KRAUSS: A version of this article appeared in print on April 16, 2013, on page B3 of the New York edition Hoping to reverse two decades of declining oil production in Alaska, the State Legislature in Juneau has granted oil companies an [...]

 Not Shell, but Chevron using similar legal tactics…. By CLIFFORD KRAUSS: April 12, 2013 HOUSTON — An environmental case that has pitted Chevron against Ecuadorean Amazon villagers for two decades has taken another bizarre twist, with an American consulting firm now recanting research favorable to the villagers’ claims of pollution in remote tracts of jungle. [...]

Mr. Salazar also escaped without serious harm from a second serious miscalculation — allowing the Shell Oil Company to begin exploring for oil and gas off the North Slope of Alaska before it had the equipment, personnel or management skill to handle the challenges of working in the Arctic environment. Though Shell had repeated accidents [...]

FROM OUR 2005 SHELL NEWS ARCHIVE:“Motiva, a joint supply venture between Shell and Saudi Refining…”: “…pleaded no contest to state charges of criminally negligent homicide…”: “The company… has paid more than $60 million to settle lawsuits”: “It is still the subject of a federal lawsuit…” Judge Fines Motiva $10M in Tank Explosion By THE ASSOCIATED [...]

WASHINGTON — The Shell Oil Company must provide a detailed plan addressing numerous safety and operational issues that plagued its efforts to extract oil beneath the Arctic Ocean last year if it wants to resume drilling off the coast of Alaska, the Interior Department said Thursday. By JOHN M. BRODER: A version of this article [...]

By JOHN M. BRODER: February 27, 2013 WASHINGTON — After a series of costly and embarrassing accidents in its efforts to drill exploratory wells off the north coast of Alaska last year, Royal Dutch Shell announced on Wednesday that it would not return to the Arctic in 2013. The company’s two drill ships suffered serious [...]

A BP cleanup crew removing oil from a beach in May 2010 in Port Fourchon, La., after the Deepwater Horizon disaster. Photo Credit: John Moore/Getty Images By BARRY MEIER and CLIFFORD KRAUSS: A version of this article appeared in print on February 24, 2013, on page A17 of the New York edition With a major [...]

Cleanup crews on Pensacola Beach in 2010. A federal court in Louisiana is preparing to hear lawsuits related to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill: Photo Credit: Michael Spooneybarger/Associated Press By CLIFFORD KRAUSS: A version of this article appeared in print on February 20, 2013, on page B1 of the New York edition HOUSTON — Unless [...]

In another blow to its Alaskan Arctic drilling program, Royal Dutch Shell said on Monday that it had decided to tow its two drill vessels there to Asian ports for major repairs, jeopardizing its plans to begin drilling for oil in the icy northern seas next summer. Shell executives said the Kulluk had sustained damage to [...]

A deep-water drilling rig in the South China Sea operated by the China National Offshore Oil Corporation, or Cnooc. Photo Credit Jin Liangkuai/Xinhua, via Associated Press By KATE GALBRAITH: A version of this article appeared in print on February 7, 2013, in The International Herald Tribune. AUSTIN, Tex. — The oceans deep are a repository [...]