Shell to buy out BP's 50 pct stake in Kenya JVs for undisclosed sum
AMSTERDAM (AFX) – Royal Dutch Shell PLC unit Shell Petroleum Co Ltd said it has signed an agreement to acquire BP PLC's stake in their 50:50-owned oil products marketing joint venture companies in Kenya.
Shell did not disclose any financial details of the deal, saying that the commercial details are confidential.
The joint venture companies include Kenya Shell Ltd, BP Kenya Ltd and Shell & BP (Malindi) Kenya Ltd. read more
Study on Sakhalin-II costs to be finished in summer – minister
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18/ 05/ 2006
ST. Petersburg, May 18 (RIA Novosti) – Expert analyses of the rising costs of the giant Sakhalin II energy project should be completed over the summer, Russia's energy minister said Thursday.
“We are conducting an assessment of the Sakhalin-II project in relation to increased capital investment [in the project], the rising cost of the project and the initiative proposed by an investor,” Viktor Khristenko said, without giving a specific timeframe for the assessment.
Under the project, Sakhalin Energy is developing two vast offshore fields off the island of Sakhalin in Russia's Far East that hold estimated recoverable reserves of 150 million metric tons of oil and 500 billion cubic meters of gas. read more
Crude-oil prices slid to less than $69 a barrel on Wednesday on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Here is today's well of news about oil and energy.
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GADHAFI MEETS WITH CHAVEZ: Libyan leader Moammar al-Gadhafi, who has recently strengthened his ties with the U.S. and other Western nations, had a sit-down with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who has been busy burning his bridges with the same nations. Both men lead OPEC member nations and the topic of their discussion, according to Mr. Chavez, was how to “maintain oil prices and avoid that they hit the floor again.” That should do little to help his popularity in the U.S. The men met at Mr. Gadhafi's Tripoli house, still damaged from a 1986 U.S. bombing attack. It was Mr. Chavez's fourth visit to Libya. Though both men have had very different relationships with the U.S. of late, they have long admired each other.read more
ExxonMobil and the race to save face after the Alaskan oil spill
James Brewer Lloyds List; May 18, 2006
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WILL ExxonMobil ever shake itself free of the Exxon Valdez?read more
SEOUL (Reuters) – Oil prices fell toward $68 a barrel on Thursday, pressured by rising U.S. gasoline inventories and concern that high energy costs are leading to inflation that could slow demand.
U.S. light crude oil (CLc1) was trading 18 cents lower at $68.51 a barrel by 0311 GMT, extending Wednesday's 84-cent loss. London Brent crude (LCOc1) slipped 12 cents to $68.92.read more
LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — A Spanish bank and Swiss insurance company ended their standoff with the Bolivian government Wednesday, dropping demands for immediate compensation for handing over energy shares they administer for a public pension fund.
The Bolivian government on Monday gave Prevision and Futuro SA three days to hand over the shares in three companies as President Evo Morales' government reasserts control over the energy sector.read more
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SHELL Refining Company (Federation of Malaya) Bhd saw its net profit fall 69 per cent to RM46 million for the first quarter of 2006, on lower realised refining margins, higher effective tax rate and reduced stockholding gains.read more
Here's a report from a London Rising Tider with a single Shell share, who went into its Annual General Meeting, while others stayed outside to leaflet shareholders and passers-by. The main meeting took place in The Hague, with a video feed to London, or the Novotel Hammersmith, to be precise.
I got in, surprisingly, (since I thought they would follow BP's lead and say no way), and took my usual vantage point in these situations, as close to the Chairman as possible, being the second row, as the first was taken up by eager beaver Shell employees in reserved seats. But seeing as the meeting was taking place in The Hague, and the only board member present in London was the rather abandoned-seeming Chair of Shell UK James Smith, there was really no heckling to be done that could have reached the ears of those assembled in The Hague, so I sat through interminable questions about whether the management was overpaying itself in order to have a chance to take the microphone for some gratuitous ranting of my own.
Actually, before I had my turn there were some good interventions from members of fenceline communities (ie. working class often black communities living right next to highly polluting and dangerous refineries and other facilities in countries like the US, South Africa, Nigeria and the Philippines). They exposed the sham of Shell's 'good neighbour' policy, but unfortunately seemed keen only to work with Shell to sort out their particular problems, and didn't take the opportunity to call for a turning away from oil and gas production for the sake of the long-term future of the planet. Of course, it's understandable that working class communities' prime motivation might be to create a liveable locale with decent job prospects, but in this time of planetary emergency, it would be great if Shell's most persistent and high-profile critics (outside the investment community that is) were able to widen their critique to address climatic collapse. read more
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JOHN DONOVAN TV DOCUMENTARY INTERVIEW
SHELL EXECUTIVES AT THE CENTER OF A SCHEME TO STEAL $1.3 BILLION FROM NIGERIA’S PEOPLE
SHELL ADMITS DEALING WITH NIGERIAN MONEY LAUNDERER – BBC NEWS
SHELL, ENI AND NIGERIAN OFFICIALS IN OPL 245 CORRUPTION SCANDAL
INVESTIGATION OF OPL 245 NIGERIAN OIL CORRUPTION SCANDAL
DUTCH EARTHQUAKES CAUSED BY SHELL/EXXON
SHELL KILLS FOR OIL IN NIGERIA
SHELL LIED ABOUT CLEANING UP OIL IN NIGER DELTA
SHELL SPIES INFILTRATED NIGERIAN GOVERNMENT
LEGO DROPS SHELL OVER GREENPEACE OIL SPILL VIDEO
SHELL ARCTIC DRILLING ACCIDENTS
SHELL KNEW ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE DECADES AGO
ROYAL DUTCH SHELL FOUNDER SIR HENRI DETERDING, NAZI FINANCIER
JOHN DONOVAN PROMOTIONAL GAMES FOR SHELL AND OTHER CLIENTS
Listen and read proof in audio and transcript form of Shell CEO Ben van Beurden’s cover-up tactics in the OPL 245 Nigerian corruption scandal. The instruction given by him in the covertly recorded call to CFO Simon Henry was at odds with Shell’s claimed core business principles. Cover-up and obstruction, instead of transparency and integrity, says Shell critic John Donovan
I used shell broadband. It was by far the worst broadband provider ever! The internet did not work most days. I had their super fast broadband and it dropped out constantly. Watching a movie was awful with the constant buffering. Customer support was super slow. Now their going to charge me for the useless router which I have sent back.
Date of experience: 21 November 2023
By far the worst broadband provider ever!
30 November 2023: Posted by John Donovan
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Extremely slow broadband for 10 months, not fixed.I have had slow broadband well below the guaranteed speed for 10 months and Shell Energy have not been able to fix it.They have tried sending about 4 or 5 engineers but have not fixed the problem.Gurps, who I have been dealing with most recently, has been friendly and polite, alth… Read more
I ordered shell energy broadband on nov 2. I was promised connection the following week. They initiated the direct debit. I called the following week and was told router would arrive on 13 and service would go live on 17. No further email or communication until 20 when I was told service would start on 30th. Spent 10 minutes waiting on phone line and spoke to a polite assistant who was absolutely useless in solving my problem. Avoid this unprofessional and chaotic… Read more
Shell Energy Broadband Service is Appalling
The worst ever
I used shell broadband. It was by far the worst broadband provider ever! The internet did not work most days. I had their super fast broadband and it dropped out constantly. Watching a movie was awful with the constant buffering. Customer support was super slow. Now their going to charge me for the useless router which I have sent back.
Date of experience: 21 November 2023
By far the worst broadband provider ever!
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