Posts on ‘February 17th, 2006’

02.17.2006, 10:02 AM LAGOS (AFX) – Nigerian militants fired machine guns at a military helicopter as it carried out an air strike on barges they were using to smuggle stolen crude oil, a military spokesman said. A spokesman for the rebels and a local community leader confirmed details of the clash, which took place on [...]

17/02/2006 – 13:11:48 Opponents of the Corrib gas pipeline in Co Mayo are protesting outside the Department of Natural Resources and the headquarters of the global oil firm Shell in Dublin today. The Shell to Sea campaign group claims the company is preparing to resume work on the controversial structure after suspending it last year [...]

February 17, 2006; Page A6 China and Iran are trying to conclude a multibillion-dollar oil-and-gas deal in coming weeks, underscoring how China's appetite for energy could undermine Washington's efforts to isolate Iran. An agreement would seal a memorandum of understanding signed by China and Iran in October 2004. Under its terms, Iran would allow China [...]

By JOHN J. FIALKA February 17, 2006; Page A6 WASHINGTON — Hoping to ease gas prices and avoid an election-year fight over drilling off the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, leaders of the Senate Energy Committee are pushing to open 3.6 million acres for oil and gas exploration in the central Gulf of Mexico. Chairman Pete [...]

Feb 17, 2006 BEIJING (AFX) – China and Iran hope to conclude a multi-billion dollar oil-and-gas deal in coming weeks, with a Chinese delegation of top economic-policy makers planning a trip to Iran possibly next month to help finalize the transaction, the Wall Street Journal said. The report said that an agreement would seal a [...]

Lorna Siggins, Marine Correspondent Feb 17, 2006 One of the five Mayo men jailed last year over opposition to the Corrib gas onshore pipeline has accused Minister for the Marine Noel Dempsey of “deceit” over mediation talks with Shell E&P Ireland. Commenting on the eve of two days of protests in Ireland and Europe over [...]

By Jim Hansen Published: 17 February 2006 A satellite study of the Greenland ice cap shows that it is melting far faster than scientists had feared – twice as much ice is going into the sea as it was five years ago. The implications for rising sea levels – and climate change – could be [...]

Friday, 17 February 2006, By Andnetwork .com The energy giant Shell has put out a fire that broke out on one of its oil wells in the Niger Delta but a nearby plant remains closed with a production loss of 37,800 barrels per day, the firm said Friday. Company firefighters were deployed on Thursday to [...]

Feb. 17, 2006, 1:58AM © 2006 The Associated Press LAGOS, Nigeria — Royal Dutch Shell shut down an oil facility pumping 37,800 barrels of crude daily in Nigeria's southern oil-rich delta, following a blaze at a nearby oil well, the company said. The cause of the fire was unknown and is being investigated, company spokesman [...]

02.17.2006, 12:29 AM TOKYO (AFX) – Showa Shell Sekiyu KK reported that its net profit in 2005 hit a record level, driven by the sharp spike in global oil prices that pushed up the value of the company's inventory. The earnings of oil refiners can be strongly influenced by big changes in oil prices, because [...]

February 17 2006 at 09:23AM By Dave Clark Lagos – The energy giant Shell defended on Thursday the use by the Nigerian military of its airfield in the oil city of Warri as a base from which to launch air strikes in the restive Niger Delta. A Nigerian helicopter gunship opened fire on Wednesday on [...]

Loses N295m per day By Mike Oduniyi, 02.17.2006 Barely 24 hours after the Joint Military Task Force in the Niger Delta, Operation Restore Hope, bombarded illegal oil bunkerers’ facilities in Okorenkoko, an Ijaw Community in Warri, a Shell Petroleum Develop-ment Company (SPDC) facility in Rivers State went up in flames yesterday, leading to the closure [...]

By Jeremy Howell BBC News business reporter in Oman Oil is almost never found in convenient places. The huge oilfield of Qarn Alam is no exception. From Muscat, Oman's capital, you have to hitch a ride in one of Petroleum Development Oman's propeller planes, and fly 350 kilometres over the mountains to the edge of [...]

DUBAI (Dow Jones)–Royal Dutch Shell PLC (RDSA) has approached the Iraqi oil ministry to explore options for a contract to help the country double output at a field in the oil-rich south, oil officials told Dow Jones Newswires. Since last year the Anglo-Dutch major has been working on technical studies on the Maysan oil field [...]

16 February 2006 Author: Provider: Fuel Cell Today With effect from 1 January 2006 Duncan Macleod has been appointed Vice President of Shell Hydrogen. Duncan brings to Shell Hydrogen a wealth of international experience and the skills and knowledge necessary to lead the business to the next stage of its development. With nearly 30 years [...]