In 1981, we moved into a contractual relationship with Shell as a result of a presentation I made at Shell-Mex House in The Strand, the then London HQ of Shell UK Limited.
I put forward a proposal for Shell to launch a legal version of a promotional game called Make Money that Shell had abandoned in the 1960‘s out of concern that it was in breach of UK lottery laws.read more
Oil firm Shell is planning to open its first UK electric car charging point next month.
Cars will be able to re-charge at a yet-to-be disclosed location in London. Bosses are trying to adapt as transport and other industries move away from fossil fuels. Demand for electric cars is expected to soar, with about 150m on the roads by 2040.Shell expects to open around 10 electric charging points around London by the end of the year. More will follow depending on customer demand. The firm ultimately wants 20 per cent of its retail fuel margins globally to come from non-diesel or petrol cars. In July Shell boss Ben van Beurden admitted his next car would be electric as he set out the future of the company. FULL ARTICLEread more
The five biggest oil companies — Exxon Mobil Corp., Royal Dutch Shell Plc, Chevron Corp., BP Plc and Total SA — collectively curbed their pollution by an average of 13 percent between 2010 and 2015, the report said. BP cut the most at 25.5 percent. Exxon, the largest emitter among listed companies, pushed it down by 14 percent. FULL ARTICLE
The refinery’s largest crude distillation unit, the 270,000-bpd DU-2, restarted on Sunday morning and was on circulation by midday, the sources said. Other units are being brought up to operating temperature and readied to resume production following the restart of DU-2. Shell spokesman Ray Fisher said the Deer Park refinery was “still in startup. Nothing to add.” Shell began saying on Sept. 8 that the refinery was in startup mode. FULL ARTICLE
Supermajor Royal Dutch Shell has decided to divest its Iraqi oil assets in a move to focus on its future in natural gas. The industry giant is seemingly breaking from its oil heritage to head full speed into the “Golden Age of Gas.” Shell’s decision to leave Iraq’s upstream oil assets is not without risk, however, as the market for natural gas is even more oversupplied than it is for crude oil.
Reuters reported the move first, based on a letter from the Iraqi ministry of oil, followed by a confirmation from Shell. The Dutch heavyweight indicated to the press that its oil asset divestment in Iraq is in line with its strategy to focus more on natural gas and downstream activities.read more
This issue with sewer pipes is the latest development in a decade-long saga for Carousel tract residents. Developers of the 285-home community, which borders Wilmington, secretly buried remains of a former Shell Oil tank farm a few feet beneath the homes in the 1960s. The burial was kept secret until routine testing discovered soil pollution in 2008.
Years of state-led environmental investigations into massive oil contamination at Carson’s Carousel tract neighborhood missed a key problem for residents living amid the mess: the sewer pipes under some homes are literally corroded into dust.
Beyond the high cost of replacing sewer lines, the oil-degraded pipelines could present yet another major health concern for residents across the 50-acre community, a new city-commissioned study has found.read more
Media stories about Royal Dutch Shell plc (NYSE:RDS/A) have trended positive recently, Accern reports. The research group identifies positive and negative press coverage by monitoring more than 20 million blog and news sources. Accern ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative one to one, with scores closest to one being the most favorable. Royal Dutch Shell plc earned a coverage optimism score of 0.27 on Accern’s scale. Accern also gave news coverage about the company an impact score of 46.2619903115752 out of 100, meaning that recent press coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an impact on the company’s share price in the next few days.read more
RIO DE JANEIRO, Sept 15 (Reuters) – Brazil’s Raízen, the world’s largest sugar producer, is trying to cut production costs to remain profitable amid depressed international prices, Chief Executive Luis Henrique Guimarães said on Friday.
Raízen, a 50-50 joint venture between Cosan SA Indústria e Comércio and Royal Dutch Shell Plc, plans to crush up to 63 million tonnes of cane in the current crop season, more than 10 percent of total Brazilian cane output.
(Reporting by Rodrigo Viga Gaier; Writing by Marcelo Teixeira; Editing by Paul Simao)read more
My families falling out with Shell took place over two decades ago.
Some indication of the degree of acrimony can be gauged from the content of posters Shell put on public display on 23 September 1998 at the Shell Centre in London, specifically targeting my father and me. I have never heard of a multinational corporation doing anything like this before or since.
This is what the posters said:
YOU MAY BE HANDED A LEAFLET OUTSIDE SHELL CENTRE BY MR ALFRED DONOVAN, FORMALLY OF A COMPANY CALLED DON MARKETING UK LIMITED. YOU SHOULD BE AWARE THAT JOHN DONOVAN, A DIRECTOR OF DON MARKETING UK LIMITED, MR ALFRED DONOVAN’S SON, HAS ISSUED A WRIT AGAINST SHELL UK CLAIMING THAT HIS COMPANY INVENTED THE SMART LOYALTY CARD PROGRAMME. MR DONOVAN’S ALLEGATIONS HAVE BEEN VERY CAREFULLY INVESTIGATED BY SHELL UK AND DISCUSSED IN DETAIL WITH MR DONOVAN AND HIS SOLICITORS. THE CLAIM IS BEING VIGOROUSLY DEFENDED. AS SOME OF YOU MAY KNOW, MR DONOVAN HAS MADE SOME OFFENSIVE STATEMENTS ABOUT SHELL UK COLLEAGUES. WE REJECT SUCH ALLEGATIONS ABSOLUTELY AND ARE WHOLLY CONFIDENT THAT OUR COLLEAGUES HAVE ACTED IN THIS MATTER AT ALL TIMES IN GOOD FAITH AND IN LINE WITH OUR LONG STANDING BUSINESS PRINCIPLES.read more
SAO PAULO (Reuters) – The Brazilian unit of Royal Dutch Shell PLC will invest $2 billion per year in the country through 2020, Flávio Rodrigues, the unit’s director of government relations and regulatory affairs, said at an industry event on Thursday.
The investment plan does not include potential bids for oil exploration areas, he said, which the government will auction off in September and October.
On average, the oil company produced 325,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day (boepd) in the first quarter, Rodrigues added. read more
LONDON (Reuters) – Royal Dutch Shell is set to end a century of oil production in Iraq by withdrawing from two of the Arab state’s flagship fields to focus on more profitable gas development.
Shell’s retreat highlights the challenges foreign operators face with low-margin oil contracts in Iraq, an OPEC member that sits on some of the world’s biggest oil reserves and wants to boost production after years of conflict hindered development.
The Anglo-Dutch firm said on Wednesday it had agreed with Iraq’s oil ministry to relinquish operations at Majnoon field to the government after unfavorable changes to fiscal terms. The announcement confirmed an earlier Reuters report.read more
The Brazilian Petrobras Scandal: The Brazilian oil giant Petrobras is the largest company in the Southern Hemisphere. On November 14, 2014, a series of police raids netted politicians and Petrobras bigwigs who had paid $2 billion in bribes… Now we have news that Petrobras is linking up with Royal Dutch Shell, which is currently mired in a billion dollar scandal: OPL 245…
Shell MoU with Petrobras and their partnership to share experience on cost efficiency and use of technology.
Déjà vu springs to mind (Daily Telegraph 01 March 2012) on BG Group finance of $1.8bn from Brazilian Development Bank to fund interests offshore Brazil (was this the same interests that Chapman demanded his cohorts in Brazil disclose over estimated reserves?).
Daily Telegraph 14 May 2013 also noted Chris Finlayson rhetoric to “keep up the pace with huge discoveries” and focusing on “value over volume”, leaving the company “lean and agile”.read more
Sep 13, 2017 at 7:06AM
The dream for those of us following renewable energy is to someday be able to produce 100% of the world’s energy from renewable sources. Wind and solar power could easily provide enough energy to replace every power plant and barrel of oil in the world, if only there were a cheap, easy way to store it. Batteries are expensive and chemically intensive, so hydrogen was always seen as a top-option for long-term energy storage. Royal Dutch Shell(and ITM Power) may have taken a small step toward building a hydrogen-fueled renewable future earlier this month by announcing a 10-megawatt electrolyzer complex in Germany that will supply hydrogen to its refining plant. The hydrogen could also be used to help balance the grid or be sold to customers for their own uses. FULL ARTICLE
Royal Dutch Shell on Tuesday presented its development proposal to Iran’s Petroleum Engineering and Development Company for Kish Gas Field in the Persian Gulf.
Hans Nijkamp, vice president of Shell, elaborated on development plans in a meeting with Noureddine Shahnazi-Zadeh, chief executive of PEDEC, and Gholamreza Manouchehri, the deputy for development and engineering at the National Iranian Oil Company, Shana reported.
A memorandum of understanding was signed between NIOC and Shell in December to conduct technical studies on the field.read more
LONDON (Reuters) – Oil major Royal Dutch/Shell said on Wednesday it would focus its efforts on the development and growth of the Basra Gas Company in Iraq after handing over operations of the Majnoon oil venture back to the Iraqi government.
On Tuesday, Reuters reported that Shell Iraq has started preparations to finalize the exit of Shell from Majnoon, one of the largest fields in the country.
“In May 2017, the ministry of oil in Iraq applied the performance penalty and remuneration factor on the Shell operated venture, the Majnoon oil field, which had a significant impact on its commerciality,” a Shell spokesman said.read more
Andrew Denney, New York Law Journal: September 12, 2017
Forcing Cravath, Swaine & Moore to hand over documents related to litigation against Royal Dutch Shell to a plaintiff seeking redress in Dutch courts would give rise to “discovery litigation tourism,” an attorney for the firm said Tuesday in arguments before a federal appeals court.
Esther Kiobel, who was unsuccessful in her effort to hold Shell liable in American courts for the 1995 execution death of her husband and eight others under the Alien Tort Statute, has taken her fight to the courts in the Netherlands.read more
Presumably he is setting himself for a run at the mayorship by attempting to rebuild Houston. I pity the Houstonians because his organisation skills in UA were legendary !!
Bonus Group: In response to Bogus Group's post about the Petrobras scandal, BG Group were not to be outdone in this respect with their Brasil Asset playing 'Games' against Petrobras' 'Bad Boys'! There is a rumour going around that one of BG's Brasil technical workflows had an error that worked substantially in BG's favour. Entirely believable, given BG's technical incompetence.
Blood on their hands: How much money did Shell waste in its attempts to get its grubby hands on Iraqi oil? They also have blood on their hands as they were licking their lips when the prospect of dropping cluster bombs on Iraqis was a very real prospect. It looks like Brazil and Iran are the new flavors of the month. Let the ass kissing begin. And if that fails, send in the yanks.
Shell Police Corruption: In a surprise move the Corrupt lady Commisioner who covered for Shells alcohol recipient cops in Mayo is to be replaced by Sir Bernard Hogan Howe a British Knight of the Realm policing Ireland ?# SHELL CORRIB CORRUPTION FULLY EXPOSED
Bogus Group: More interesting links on this scandal.
Upstream (5 June 2008) article on Petrobras chief executive and BG executive comment on “how much gas there is”. The article links to Alexander Gas & Oil (8 February 2010) on “who’s who” in the deal. One of who was subject of an article in “Debtwire” (29 August 2016), the other was noted in an article on this blog, (28 August 2017 at 16.40).
Bogus Group: Shell MoU with Petrobras and their partnership to share experience on cost efficiency and use of technology.
Déjà vu springs to mind (Daily Telegraph 01 March 2012) on BG Group finance of $1.8bn from Brazilian Development Bank to fund interests offshore Brazil (was this the same interests that Chapman demanded his cohorts in Brazil disclose over estimated reserves?).
Daily Telegraph 14 May 2013 also noted Chris Finlayson rhetoric to “keep up the pace with huge discoveries” and focusing on “value over volume”, leaving the company “lean and agile”.
We know the story behind Petrobras corruption; did this other “great company and their great leaders” come into the equation?
Shell Police Corruption ..: It took a little longer than anticipated but now the Irish Police Commisioner who aided the Shell police alcohol cover up has tonight gone having failed to silence OSSL ...next up is CS Gannon for whom Shell CEO demanded statement falsification following the CS abhorrent threats to "drive the people of Erris into the sea "...
Bogus Group: Energy Voice lands another “exclusive”, in The Hague this time. Yet another good news story in the making, no doubt portraying a “warm cosy feeling” in the industry. I wonder if EV would ever run an exclusive on some of the less welcome news that executives don’t want to hear. I think not, this would mean biting the hand that feeds them.
Bonus Group: Armada typifies the slack 'cappuccino' lifestyle idiots that BG Group had working for them. No integrity and just looking for the next bonus hand-out. Remember Keith Moncrieff and Sean McCue!
Dutchdude: Dear Armada, your statement "it is only..." shows a serious flaw in current safety thinking. This increased acceptance and normalisation of risk is a trend amongst staff who have not witnessed serious events themselves, and therefore assume it won't happen. The only outcome of this normalisation can only be a devastating event, big enough to reset thinking.
Grumpy Tullos Veteran: I find it fascinating how so called Shell experts who visit this website (not mentioning any names, Armada) can so nonchalantly dismiss safety critical risks/factors as being overstated. I hope that these people are not in technical or HSE type roles. Its these type of company cronies who were falsely handing out permits to work like sweets or allowing for corners to be cut if it meant money being saved and bigger bonuses during my time working on Shearwater. At that time there were auditors like Bill. Now we get wet behind the ear financial auditors who come round with giant spreadsheets. It does not surprise me at all that we are getting these Safety Notices. I only hope that the cost reductions and subsequent corner cutting doesn't end up in lives being lost.
Appalled: Only on the flare stack!!!!
“Blowdown and Pressure Relief” is a safety critical system and as such had a BG Performance Standard (Ref: PSB-80). The Functionality Criteria for the Written Scheme of Examination states, “Thermal radiation from ignited vent or flare tip to be less than 4.7Kw/m2 (1,500BTU/ft2) at manned areas and helidecks”.
Any breach of the flare system could have released huge volumes of gas (from an emergency blowdown) well before it reached the flare tip. Very much an explosion risk.
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Extracts from the ebook “John Donovan, Shell’s Nightmare” (now available on Amazon websites globally)
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