Posts on ‘February 9th, 2006’

09 Feb 2006 12:16:04 GMT Source: Reuters By Tume Ahemba LAGOS, Feb 9 (Reuters) – A militant Nigerian group which has staged attacks on the oil industry said it believed the government intended to assassinate two jailed leaders of the Ijaw ethnic group and threatened attacks would resume shortly. The group kidnapped four foreign oil [...]

When Caracas began accusing private oil companies of tax evasion last year, it claimed the 22 companies owed the state a total of $2bn-$3bn in income taxes for the period 2001-2004. If found guilty, oil companies would have to repay “billions of dollars,” said national assembly president Nicolás Maduro. Well into the tax battle, the [...]

(09-02-2006) President Tran Duc Luong talks with Leslie Van de Walle, the president of Shell Global Retail Business.— VNA/VNS Photo Nguyen Khang HA NOI — President Tran Duc Luong said Vietnamese leaders aimed to foster strategic relationships with international economic groups like Shell to boost industrialisation and modernisation. He made the statement yesterday while meeting [...]

WORLD BRIEFINGS By Xin Li February 9, 2006 Whenever blood is shed in Nigeria, the global economy feels the pain. On Jan. 11, a militia group calling itself Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) seized four Shell engineers and held them hostage for three weeks. Armed forces attacked a flow station, killed [...]

Business Times (Malaysia) February 9 2006 LONDON, Wed: Royal Dutch Shell plc chief executive officer Jeroen van der Veer said the world has plenty of oil and gas to meet demand, with future supplies aided by development of so-called unconventional reserves such as heavy-oil projects. “The world is not running out of energy,” van der [...]

Thursday, February 09, 2006 GLOBAL energy group Shell Oil has issued a worldwide warning against the use of mobile phones at service stations after three incidents were reported where ringing mobile phones ignited fumes during fuelling operations. The three incidents, which happened overseas, all occurred at fuel bowsers. One happened after a mobile phone rang [...]

By Connla Young The ongoing struggle against the Shell oil corporation by the people of Co Mayo will be the focus of a public meeting in Belfast next week. The What’s up with Shell event will bring together people directly involved in the Shell to Sea campaign and supporters in Belfast. Last June, the Rossport [...]

Feb 09, 2006 PUERTO PRINCESA CITY, Feb 9 Asia Pulse – The Malampaya consortium has generated a whopping US$422.2 million in revenues from its 62 export shipments of Malampaya condensate since the start of its commercialization in 2002. Ariston Sandoval, Bureau of Customs-Puerto Princesa City administration officer, disclosed that the Shell Philippines Exploration B. V. [...]

Feb 09, 2006 PUERTO PRINCESA CITY, Feb 9 Asia Pulse – The Malampaya consortium has generated a whopping US$422.2 million in revenues from its 62 export shipments of Malampaya condensate since the start of its commercialization in 2002. Ariston Sandoval, Bureau of Customs-Puerto Princesa City administration officer, disclosed that the Shell Philippines Exploration B. V. [...]

Feb 09, 2006 IRISH investors like Maxol, Topaz, Campus, Top and DCC are to become more and more involved in petrol and diesel retailing in the 32 counties as the oil giants such as Shell, Statoil and Esso cut back on their exposure to downstream activities and switch retailing to more lucrative markets. That is, [...]

Asia Pulse; Feb 09, 2006 MUMBAI, Feb 9 Asia Pulse – The state-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corporation on Wednesday joined hands with Shell Bitumen India Private Ltd to carry out a joint market research to study India's Bitumen and Value Added Bitumen market potential over the next 10 years. The MoU was signed by [...]

By Sheila McNulty in Houston Published: February 9 2006 Steam injection and cellulose ethanol are the buzz­words at this week's world oil and gas meeting in Houston, where leaders in the energy sector are emphasising the need to diversify resources and improve access through technology. Among those stressing alternatives to fossil fuels yesterday was the [...]