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June 22nd, 2004:

Aramco Lifts Stake in Japan Refiner

Jun 22nd, 2004
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THE WALL STREET JOURNAL: Aramco Lifts Stake in Japan Refiner

Wednesday 22 June 2005

Saudi Oil Firm’s Deal Gives

Showa Shell Wider Access

To Light-Grade Arab Crude

By SHIGERU SATO

DOW JONES NEWSWIRES

June 22, 2005

TOKYO — Saudi Arabian Oil Co., or Saudi Aramco, yesterday completed the acquisition of a 5% stake in Showa Shell Sekiyu KK to boost its overall shares in the Japanese oil refiner to 14.96%, Showa Shell said.

The transaction is part of an agreement signed last year, under which Royal Dutch/Shell Group is to sell 9.96% of shares outstanding in Showa Shell to the Saudi Arabia’s state-owned Aramco. read more

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Reuters: Shell says Oman Mukhaizna stake to drop to 17 pct

Jun 22nd, 2004
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Reuters: Shell says Oman Mukhaizna stake to drop to 17 pct

Wednesday 22 June 2005

LONDON (Reuters) – Royal Dutch/Shell group said on Tuesday it was to get a 17 percent stake in a new production sharing agreement covering Oman’s Mukhaizna oilfield, compared to the 34 percent it currently holds.

U.S. oil firm Occidental (OXY.N: Quote, Profile, Research) will receive a 45 percent stake under the terms of the new deal which has been agreed in principle and be named project operator, a Shell spokesman said.

France’s Total (TOTF.PA: Quote, Profile, Research) will receive 2 percent, down from its current 4 percent. State-owned Oman Oil Company will hold 20 percent. The United Arab Emirates’s Liwa Energy will have 15 percent and Partex Oman will own 1 percent. read more

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Shell workers in Nigeria walk off job in ‘warning strike’ to avert job cuts

Jun 22nd, 2004
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Canada.com: Shell workers in Nigeria walk off job in ‘warning strike’ to avert job cuts

Canadian Press

Tuesday, June 22, 2004

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) – Shell workers in three Nigerian cities walked off the job Tuesday in a “warning strike” intended to force the oil giant to abandon proposed job cuts, union and company officials said.

The country’s two main oil unions called the strike Monday afternoon in Lagos, Port Harcourt and Warri. The work stoppage was to continue until Tuesday night, a Shell spokesman said, speaking on condition of anonymity.

Shell pumps about half of all oil produced in Nigeria, which is the world’s seventh-largest oil exporter. Nigeria accounts for one-tenth of Shell’s global production. read more

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Reports of cutbacks in summertime gas false, Shell Oil says

Jun 22nd, 2004
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Sacramento Bee: Reports of cutbacks in summertime gas false, Shell Oil says

By Melanie Payne — Bee Staff Writer

Published 2:15 am PDT Tuesday, June 22, 2004

Shell Oil Co. denied Monday that it will cut summertime gasoline production at its refineries in Bakersfield and Martinez.

A story in the Los Angeles Times, citing internal documents, reported that the company would cut crude oil processing by 10 percent during July at the Martinez refinery and by 6 percent in July and August at the Bakersfield refinery Shell intends to close.

The article set off a flurry of letters from Jamie Court, president of the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights, to state Attorney General Bill Lockyer and to the Federal Trade Commission. read more

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Past and Current Staff Taking Sarawak Shell Berhad/Sabah Shell Petroleum Company to Court

Jun 22nd, 2004
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SARAWAK SHELL BERHAD/SABAH SHELL PETROLEUM COMPANY’S INTERNAL MANAGEMENT EXCHANGE LEAKED BY AN EMPLOYEE DISGUSTED WITH SHELL

RECEIVED 21 JUNE 2004

INCOMING EMAIL ADDRESS WILL REMAIN CONFIDENTIAL

SUBJECT: Past and Current Staff Taking Sarawak Shell Berhad/Sabah Shell Petroleum Company to Court

Gentlemen,

If you haven’t seen the attached, it may interest you to know that the attached is a copy of Sarawak Shell Berhad/Sabah Shell Petroleum Company’s internal management exchange which was leaked by one of the employees who is disgusted with Shell.

You may take note that Shell cheats on paying the Retirement Benefit Fund resulting in the class action at Miri High Court by ex and current staff of Sarawak Shell Berhad/Sabah Shell Petroleum Company. read more

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A healthy new business is born

Jun 22nd, 2004
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Financial Times: A healthy new business is born

By Mark Nicholson

Jun 22, 2004

Two young Scots design engineers last week won this year’s £10,000 Shell LiveWIRE entrepreneurs’ award, two years after they walked into Glasgow’s Yorkhill hospital and asked staff which of their equipment was “rubbish”.

The clinicians pointed to intensive care equipment for new-borns. So Neil Tierney and Neil Farish, then undergraduates on a product design course run jointly by Glasgow University and Glasgow School of Art, came up with a better baby-care unit. read more

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The lost Arabic school for scandal: the spy school

Jun 22nd, 2004
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The Times: The lost Arabic school for scandal: the spy school

By Michael Binyon
June 22, 2004

EXOTIC, influential, reviled and mysterious, few institutions have exercised such a lasting and controversial hold over British diplomacy as a modest language school founded in Jerusalem 60 years ago this month.

The Middle East Centre for Arab Studies (Mecas), later based in Lebanon and known throughout the Arab world as “the spy school”, began as an attempt to train army officers in the language and culture of the Middle East, where Britain still ruled a dozen countries directly or indirectly. When the last intake of young British diplomats, oilmen and students, Japanese businessmen and international civil servants scuttled out of the beleaguered school at the height of the Lebanese civil war in 1978, they left behind an institution that has never been matched and will never be repeated: a piece of Whitehall nestling amid the terraces, vineyards and old stone houses of Shemlan, a sleepy Christian mountain village that became synonymous with broken plurals, weak radicals and all the intricacies of modern newspaper Arabic. read more

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Regulators Given Internal Shell Documents

Jun 22nd, 2004
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USNewsWires.com: Regulators Given Internal Shell Documents

Posted 22 June 04

Regulators Given Internal Shell Documents Showing Refinery Slow Down Leading Up to Labor Day; Huge Profits Reported At Bakersfield Refinery Slated For Closure

SANTA MONICA, Calif., June 21 /U.S. Newswire/ – The Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights (FTCR) is handing over internal Shell Oil documents today to the Federal Trade Commission and the California Attorney General that show Shell Oil is slowing down production at its Bakersfield and Martinez refineries for “routine maintenance” leading up to the busiest driving holiday of the year – a tactic to reduce supply also used by electricity producers during California’s energy crisis. read more

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