By Anna Holligan BBC News, The Netherlands As earthquakes become more intense and more frequent in the north of the Netherlands, there is mounting pressure on the government to reduce the amount of gas being extracted there. It is a curse for thousands of inhabitants having to cope with the effects of living amid the [...]
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Shell May Export U.S. LNG or Turn Gas to Motor Fuel, Chemicals
By Robert Tuttle – May 16, 2013 5:00 AM GMT+0100 Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSA) may export U.S. natural gas in liquid form, convert it into chemicals or build a gas-to-liquids plant to produce fuel, said the company’s country chairman for Dubai and the northern emirates. Shell is considering the possibilities, and “it is too [...]
SELECTION OF SHELL RELATED ARTICLE LINKS 15 MAY 2013
SELECTION OF SHELL RELATED ARTICLE LINKS KINDLY SUPPLIED BY A REGULAR CONTRIBUTOR IEA forecasts US to account for a third of new oil supplies: Financial Times-The outlook will influence businesses as diverse as major oil companies, including ExxonMobil and Royal Dutch Shell, big commodities traders … Oxford University won’t take funding from tobacco companies. But …: The Guardian-… on research at Manchester University partly to [...]
Noble Corp says Royal Dutch Shell Plc in talks to renew Arctic rig contract
By Reuters | 18 Apr, 2013, 08.41PM IST Noble Corp, owner of the world’s third-largest offshore drilling fleet, said on Thursday Royal Dutch Shell Plc was in talks to extend its contract to use the Noble Discoverer beyond February 2014, underlining its long-term plans for the offshore Arctic. The Discoverer is undergoing repairs in South [...]
Shell has spent $4.5 BILLION on Arctic exploration without completing a well
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 [...]
Nigerian Oil Thieves Return to Decimate Output
By Elisha Bala-Gbogbo on March 05, 2013 Nigeria’s oil thieves are back in action, sabotaging pipelines to rob Africa’s biggest crude producer of more than a 10th of its daily production. In the first two months of this year alone, Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSA) and other oil companies have declared three force majeures, a [...]
Selection of links to Shell related articles: 21 February 2013
Selection of links to Shell related articles kindly supplied by a regular contributor ExxonMobil Witness in Trial Says MTBE Raised Cancer Risk: Bloomberg: Shell Oil Co., Sunoco Inc., ConocoPhillips (COP), Irving Oil Ltd., Vitol SA and Hess Corp. settled before the trial began. The New Hampshire … Five reasons the Keystone XL pipeline is bad [...]
Dutch gas field to keep producing as earth tremor risk is studied
Several politicians… have called for an urgent review of gas extraction in Groningen province following earth tremors in recent weeks of up to 3.2 magnitude, which caused cracks in some buildings. The huge gas field near Slochteren in the north of the country has recoverable gas reserves of around 2.7 trillion cubic metres and is [...]
SHELL EP PRODUCTION FORECAST & TRAGIC WORLD EVENTS
“I found the emails interesting and indicative of the deception Shell management was clearly engaged in. They were trying to exploit the events of 9/11 to their benefit. What these emails could have done at the time they were written is cause Shell’s stock to drop significantly.“ By John Donovan I stumbled across some intriguing [...]
Selection of Shell related article links 17 Jan 2013
Selection of Shell related article links kindly supplied by a regular contributor As one ship enough to tow Shell oil drilling rig in Gulf of Alaska?: Anchorage Daily News-Jan 14, 2013: Mass was so irritated by Shell’s assertions that he wrote a lengthy post disputing them on his weather blog. “Shell Oil made a misguided [...]
Esso and Shell face allegations of ‘predatory pricing’ over fuel cost
The Office of Fair Trading is studying allegations by independent petrol station owners that oil giants Shell and Esso have engaged in “predatory pricing”. By Emily Gosden: 10:30PM GMT 12 Jan 2013 The RMI Petroleum Retailers Association (PRA), representing the independent retailers who run 60pc of UK forecourts, made the claim as it called for [...]
Development challenge of Kazakhstan’s giant oilfield
Kashagan – a giant offshore oil field in the Caspian Sea – The project is better known (in Shell circles) as “Cash all gone” 7 December 2012 By Rayhan Demytrie BBC News, Kashagan oil field, Kazakhstan t has cost $46bn (£28.8bn) to develop Kazakhstan’s most ambitious project, Kashagan – a giant offshore oil field in [...]
Nigeria Bill Risks Output in Top African Oil Country, Shell Says
By Elisha Bala-Gbogbo on November 30, 2012 Nigerian plans to change the way its oil industry is regulated and funded risk cutting investment and production in Africa’s top producer, Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSA) said. “Production will be down about 40 percent by 2020 without new investment,” Mutiu Sunmonu, Shell’s chairman for Nigeria, said in [...]
Shell sees big output boost from Chesapeake acreage buy
Ernest Scheyder and Joshua Schneyer Reuters: 10:46 a.m. CST, November 29, 2012 NEW YORK (Reuters) – Royal Dutch Shell expects “years and years” of production from oil and natural gas acreage it recently bought from Chesapeake Energy Corp and plans to add more drilling rigs, the head of Shell’s Americas operations said on Thursday. Shell [...]
The Inuit sitting on billions of barrels of oil
By May Abdalla BBC World Service, Point Hope, Alaska: 29 November 2012 After a decade of legal wrangling and spending $4.5bn (£2.8bn), this year Shell Oil was given permission to begin exploratory drilling off the coast of Alaska. But many in the local Inuit community are concerned it could have a devastating impact on one [...]
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