Posts on ‘June 27th, 2006’

From Asia Pulse Published: Jun 28, 2006 PERTH, June 28 Asia Pulse – China has commissioned its first liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal, receiving LNG from Australia’s North West Shelf joint venture. The North West Shelf joint venture, which is operated by Woodside Petroleum Ltd (ASX:WPL), is the first international supplier of LNG into China [...]

From The Financial Times By Carola Hoyos in London Published: June 28 2006 03:00 | Last updated: June 28 2006 03:00 Iraq was yesterday poised to restart its critical northern oil exports after a nine-month interruption caused by pipeline sabotage. The country’s marketing company this week sold several batches of oil from its storage tanks [...]

From Upstreamonline By Upstream staff Supermajor Shell’s Sakhalin II operating company, Sakhalin Energy, has installed Russia’s first offshore gas platform on the Lunskoye field in the Sea of Okhotsk, north-east of Russia’s Sakhalin Island. The successful mating of the Lunskoye-A’s 21,800-tonne topsides with the four legs of the concrete gravity-base structure (CGBS) placed on the [...]

From Upstreamonline By Upstream staff 27 June 2006 Technology to cut greenhouse gas emissions, such as carbon capture and offshore wind, needs government support to make it competitive, Graeme Sweeney, the head of Shell International Renewables, part of Anglo-Dutch supermajor Shell, said today. The debate about where to source future energy is an increasingly hot [...]

From Rigzone Tuesday, June 27, 2006� Shell Canada says that as of 1:01 a.m. on June 27, 2006, approximately 4,319,949 additional common shares of BlackRock Ventures Inc. (TSX: BVI) have been validly deposited to the offer by BR Oil Sands Corporation, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Shell Canada, to acquire all of the common shares of [...]

From allAfrica.com Lagos In the first half of this year an average of more than four hostages have been seized monthly in the Niger Delta, an unprecedented rate of kidnappings since the first stirrings of violent protest in the early 1990s in the region that produces most of Nigeria’s oil. The two Filipino hostages freed [...]

MSNBC/ASSOCIATED PRESS Clears House committee, faces likely filibuster in the Senate Updated: 11:18 a.m. ET June 27, 2006 Legislation that would end a quarter-century ban on drilling in most of the Outer Continental Shelf advanced in the House on Wednesday. The measure would allow oil and gas development in restricted offshore waters unless a state [...]

From The Mayo News By Michael Duffy JUNE 29 is a date that will be forever etched in the memories of five men from north Mayo whose collective name, the Rossport Five, is now part of the vernacular across the country. Tomorrow (Thursday) is the first anniversary of the day when Michael � Seighin, Willie [...]

From New Europe News Gazprom and Shell are planning to build a plant to process 12 billion cubic metres of gas a year according to gas-to-liquid (GTL) technology near Nadym, Gazprom Deputy CEO Alexander Ryazanov said at the Renaissance Capital annual investors� conference last Monday. Implementing the project could become one of the ways to [...]

From The Associated Press “Iraq certainly is a country with incredible resources” Iraq’s instability has kept foreign oil companies from investing in reconstruction, compounding what officials see as a litany of woes confronting the country’s once-dominant oil sector–from corruption to poorly maintained fields. While the world’s thirst for oil grows, untapped Iraqi reserves and current [...]

FROM THE WALL STREET JOURNAL Severe Shortage Of Skilled Workers Boosts Job Prospects By BENOIT FAUCON and NAHED AL-ALI June 26, 2006 LONDON — Twenty years ago, it’s unlikely that Diana Leo, a middle-aged woman with business and engineering degrees, would have been found running an oil rig in the North Sea. But in 2004, [...]

6/27/2006 Source: Reuters VLADIVOSTOK, Russia � Russia’s first giant natural gas platform has been installed off the island of Sakhalin in the far east of the country, a consortium led by energy group Royal Dutch Shell announced yesterday. David Grier, executive director of the Shell-led Sakhalin Energy consortium, said the completion of the Lounskaya 2 [...]

From Reuters Mon Jun 26, 2006 8:25pm ET HOUSTON, June 26 (Reuters) – A unit at Shell Oil Products U.S. 156,000 barrel per day (bpd) refinery in the Los Angeles suburb of Wilmington, California, was flaring on Monday afternoon because of a breakdown, according to reports filed with state and local public safety agencies. A [...]

Terry Macalister Tuesday June 27, 2006 The Guardian Russian group insists there is plenty of interest in its controversial listing Rosneft swept aside mounting concerns about its controversial float on the London stock market yesterday and unveiled a premium price for its share sale, which would value Russia’s state-owned oil group at up to $80bn [...]

From BLOOMBERG June 27 (Bloomberg) — Royal Dutch Shell Plc, the world’s third-largest oil company, may sell the remaining liquefied natural gas from its Russian Sakhalin-2 project to buyers in Asia, said John Chadwick, Shell’s top gas executive in Asia. Sakhalin, located close to Japan in Russia’s Far East, now has 90 percent of its [...]