Posts on ‘March 9th, 2006’

A Shell insider has kindly supplied us with a copy of an important and revealing Harvard Business School document regarding the activities of Royal Dutch/Shell in Nigeria. EXTRACT: Brian Anderson faced a deeply disturbing situation. It was October 31,1995—just over a year since he'd been named managing director of Royal Dutch/Shell's Nigerian oil exploration and [...]

Thursday 09 March 2006, 14:11 Makka Time, 11:11 GMT Heavy armed separatists have targeted soldiers and oil workers. Nigerian separatists say they have killed seven soldiers in a firefight during an attack by the army in the southern Niger Delta. The separatists, in an email statement on Thursday, also threatened reprisals against the military and [...]

09/03/2006 – 15:38:04 The controversial Corrib gas field off Co Mayo must be developed to supply Ireland’s future energy needs, the Progressive Democrats claimed today. A Government-appointed mediator is currently attempting to resolve a long-running dispute, which saw five local men serve more than three months in prison last year for breaching a High Court [...]

Ethical Shareholders support call for Shell resolution /09.03.06 Oil multinational Shell has accepted an Annual General Meeting resolution from ethical shareholders following a campaign by Christian Aid partner the Ecumenical Council for Corporate Responsibility and a call for support on Christian Aid’s website. ECCR delivered the shareholder resolution, which calls for ‘a major improvement in [...]

Source : La Société Actualité du 09/03/06 à 14:12 The Board of Royal Dutch Shell plc (NYSE: RDS.A, NYSE: RDS.B) announce the intended election of Mr Nick Land, currently Chairman of Ernst & Young LLP to replace Sir Peter Burt, who will be retiring as a non-executive director of the Company following the Annual General [...]

Bby Tim Bradner Alaska Journal of Commerce Shell's Alaska exploration manager said his company is supporting federal Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) leasing in the North Aleutians Shelf area off Bristol Bay in Southwest Alaska. Chandler Wilhelm also said the company now doesn't believe development of several state oil and gas leases Shell acquired last fall [...]

By IAN TALLEY March 9, 2006 OSLO — Statoil ASA and Royal Dutch Shell PLC announced plans for a multibillion-dollar project to increase oil recovery through carbon-dioxide injection at two oil fields in the Norwegian Sea. The project, said by the companies to be the biggest of its kind in the world, envisions capturing the [...]

Energy • Statoil, Norway's largest oil company, raised its stake in a licence in the Norwegian Sea to 75pc by purchasing a stake from BP. Shell and Statoil plan to use carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas blamed for global warming, from a Norwegian power plant to increase output at oil and natural gas fields starting [...]

By Christopher Hope and Caroline Muspratt (Filed: 09/03/2006) Shell and Statoil have come up with an ingenious way of producing more oil from two North Sea fields while cutting greenhouse gases at the same time. The scheme involves capturing between 2m and 2.5m tonnes of carbon dioxide a year from a specially-built power station and [...]

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK (AP) — Exxon Mobil Corp. said Wednesday it will plow an extra $2 billion a year into oil and natural-gas drilling, refining and chemicals manufacturing in order to lift output by 25 percent by the end of the decade. The world's largest publicly traded energy company, which reported the [...]

By REUTERS LAGOS (Reuters) – Nigerian militants said on Thursday they killed seven soldiers in a firefight during an attack by the army in the southern Niger Delta, and threatened reprisals against the military and oil company Royal Dutch Shell. It was the biggest military attack on militants from the Movement for the Emancipation of [...]

Mar 09, 2006 A Nigerian militant group holding three foreign oil workers hostage said its fighters clashed with army troops in this West African nation's oil-rich delta region. The militants said in an e-mailed statement that one of their vessels was attacked Wednesday on the Escravos River by four Nigerian navy patrol boats, sparking a [...]

By Emma Amaize Posted to the Web: Thursday, March 09, 2006 WARRI — THE people of Adaka, an Itsekiri community in Sapele Local Government Area of Delta State, yesterday, gave the Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) a seven-day ultimatum to remove all its oil facilities and evacuate its staff from the Ovorh field in the [...]

By Michael Harrison Published: 09 March 2006 Plans for the world's biggest project to capture the greenhouse gases produced by electricity generation and store them under the sea in giant oilfields were unveiled yesterday by Shell and Statoil, the state-controlled Norwegian oil producer. The companies envisage spending $1.5bn (£860m) to build a new gas-fired station [...]

Terry Macalister Thursday March 9, 2006 The biggest-ever scheme to bury greenhouse gases below the seabed is being planned by energy groups Shell and Statoil. The plan will allow Norwegian gas to be developed for Britain with less environmental damage. Up to 2.5m tonnes of carbon dioxide annually – the same as would be produced [...]