Posts on ‘June 29th, 2006’

From The New York Times By JAD MOUAWAD Published: June 30, 2006 MAASLAND, the Netherlands — A few miles north of Rotterdam, in a region the Dutch call “glass city” for its thousands of greenhouses, gardeners like Frank van Os are part of an unconventional experiment by Royal Dutch Shell to curb carbon emissions. Mr. [...]

FROM MARKETWATCH Former BP energy trader pleads guilty to price gouging scheme By Stephanie I. Cohen & Jim Jelter WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — Federal regulators on Wednesday accused BP Plc.’s North American energy trading unit of briefly cornering the U.S. propane market in 2004 in a scheme that jacked up homeowners and businesses’ heating bills across [...]

Shell and partners announce plans to create world’s largest hydrogen public transport project 29 June 2006 Provider: Fuel Cell Today  Shell Hydrogen B.V., in partnership with Connexxion Holding N.V. and MAN Truck & Bus Company N.V., today announced plans to work towards creating the world’s largest hydrogen-fuelled public transport operation in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. The [...]

From Reuters Thu Jun 29, 2006 3:21am ET AMSTERDAM, June 29 (Reuters) – Anglo-Dutch oil giant Royal Dutch Shell Plc. (RDSa.L: Quote, Profile, Research)(RDSb.L: Quote, Profile, Research) said on Thursday that it is working with Dutch public transport and MAN Truck & Bus Company (MANG.DE: Quote, Profile, Research) to create a fleet of hydrogen-fueled buses [...]

From San Jose Mercury News By Ken McLaughlin Mehdi Shahbazi is losing his home and livelihood because he has been protesting what he calls “gouging” by oil company executives. More photosMehdi Shahbazi, the feisty Marina gas station owner who is going broke battling Big Oil, has won a round in federal court in San Jose. [...]

FROM THE WALL STREET JOURNAL Energy Stalks Big Players Join Race to Put Farm Waste Into Your Gas Tank With Federal Push, Companies Propose Plants That Turn Husks, Grass Into Ethanol Delving Into Elephant Dung By JOHN J. FIALKA and SCOTT KILMAN June 29, 2006; Page A1 WILMINGTON, Del. — One way to wean America [...]

From The Daily Telegraph (Filed: 29/06/2006) A surge in exploration interest offers a ray of hope, but renewable plans for the future shine brightest, writes Roland Gribben A boost for North Sea oil exploration has provided an unexpected bonus for the Government. Just months after oil companies warned that tax changes in the North Sea [...]

From Lloyds List Published: Jun 29, 2006 The growing fleet and size of liquefied natural gas (LNG) carriers should help to increase spot trading in the industry, predicts Bob Salmon, general manager for shipping at Shell Trading, writes Tony Gray. Mr Salmon, also a committee member of industry group the Center for Liquefied Natural Gas, [...]

By: Huw Williams, The Independent Published: Jun 29, 2006 A wind-and rainswept platform perched high above a raging North Sea is not many people’s idea of an ideal working environment, but Britain’s oil and gas industry urgently needs recruits. There is a shortage of skilled workers, and with exploration under way for new reserves, many [...]

By: MIKE MCCARTHY ENVIRONMENT EDITOR, The Independent Published: Jun 29, 2006 What is ethanol? Ethanol is the best known of the biofuels, and they in turn are any fuels derived from recently living organisms or their byproducts. So wood and straw are biofuels, as is camel dung. But in practice today biofuels are mainly alcohols [...]

From New Straits Times (Malaysia) Published: Jun 29, 2006 KUCHING: Poverty has not stopped Andy Mark Tipi from doing well in last year’s Penilaian Menengah Rendah (PMR) examination. On Tuesday, the efforts of the SM Teknik Sejingkat student, who scored 6As and 1B which made him one of the State’s top achievers, were recognised when [...]

From The Financial Times By Joyce Dundas Published: June 29 2006 03:00 | Last updated: June 29 2006 03:00 Shell Group has appointed Steven Fries as its chief economist to be based in The Hague. Mr Fries joins from the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development where he was deputy chief economist and acting chief [...]