Posts from ‘September, 2006’

For those who prefer not to cycle or walk, the eco answer to getting from A to B is to mix and match, says Lucy Siegle Sunday October 1, 2006 I concede that the clean, green mobility charms of the push bike won’t seduce everyone. Unfortunately nobody has come up with such an easy, cheap [...]

Posted at 2:37pm on 01 Oct 2006 The operators of the Pohokura gas field in Taranaki say it is producing commercial quantities of gas for the first time. Shell Exploration says gas and condensate are now flowing from three completed onshore wells through a production station at Motunui near New Plymouth. A spokesman, Ajit Bansal, [...]

By Raymond J. Learsy This April the Chavez government seized oil fields operated by two European oil giants- Italy’s ENI and France’s Total. This, after the two companies declined to convert their contracts to joint ventures with the state. “These two multinational companies resist adjusting to our law. Our sovereignty isn’t under negotiation”, bellowed Rafael [...]

Eleven energy ministers warned of rising political and commercial risks to Europe�s energy markets as President Vladimir Putin issued a warning to �unconscientious� investors, Agence France Presse reported on Thursday. �The ministers note the recent developments in energy markets and the ever increasing potential risks of a political and commercial nature,� the 11 Black Sea-region [...]

Leading producers do battle over TransCanada plans to switch gas pipeline to oil sands; disagree over outlook for gas supplies Gary Park For Petroleum News In the red corner we have, among others, EnCana, Shell Canada, Nexen and Devon Canada. And in the blue corner, ConocoPhillips Canada, Canadian Natural Resources and Suncor Energy. It�s one [...]

Introduction�by Alfred Donovan. Robert Aouad, a guest columnist in a U.S. College publication, recently took issue with a suggestion that Shell Oil should be included in a list of terrorist organisations: the following is an extract from his article published on 22 September 2006. � EXTRACT: As for Shell Oil, who you suggested should be [...]

September 30, 2006� � WATER is vital to the recovery of oil � it is used to force the black liquid from hard-to-reach parts. Water is also essential to the survival of the 2.5 million people living in the Thar Desert in Rajasthan, India, the world�s most populous desert. Cairn Energy, the Scottish mining company, [...]

By Arkady Ostrovsky Published: September 29 2006 03:00 | Last updated: September 29 2006 03:00 What do a Soviet pop diva, small country cottage owners and one of the world’s largest oil and gas projects have in common? The answer is simple. They have all become a target for a mid-level official who has built [...]

Saturday 30 September 2006 � HERALD STAFF � The successful government pressure on Shell to suspend its new V-Power diesel pending government authorization of the product sets an alarming precedent for any market economy � would Alexander Graham Bell have felt obliged to seek government authorization before inventing the telephone or the Wright brothers to [...]

Saturday 30 September 2006 Yoshikuni Sugiyama The government compiled in May an energy policy outline titled “New National Energy Strategy,” with the aim of increasing its ratio of independent oil development. However, its plan has already taken a battering thanks to a unilateral Russian ruling. The Russian Natural Resources Ministry has decided to cancel the [...]

28th September 2006 By Anne Marie Davis Groupe Caisse d’Epargne has joined Shell in S’Miles, a major syndicated retail loyalty card scheme in France. The French retail bank will represent a welcome addition to the scheme for Shell, increasing the number of card touch points for its customers in a market where an independent loyalty [...]

Headline: Social Setbacks as Big Oil Expands Pipelines Emad Mekay WASHINGTON, Sep 29 (IPS) – Predominantly foreign male workers who relocated to build massive oil and gas projects, combined with feeble gender policies, have brought� and greater burdens for local communities around those projects, new research finds. This array of problems was found at two [...]

SEPTEMBER 2006 EXTRACT: According to an article written for Amnesty International: “It�s 10 years since the Nigerian Government executed the well-known Ogoni writer and human rights campaigner Ken Saro-Wiwa. But little has changed for the people of the Niger Delta, reports Seth Jordan… “�Oil was discovered in the Ogoni region in the late 1950s by [...]

29 September 2006 Expert comments on the Sakhalin II situation by a Shell Insider… The costs of Sakhalin have doubled, so the payback time is approximately doubled. If 2013 is the new estimate for breakeven, based on a start up in 2008 and $22bn costs, then it is fair to assume that the date should [...]

Posted By Newsroom On 29th September 2006 @ 10:15 In Home, Economy, Companies, YUZHNO-SAKHALINSK – A stretch of a pipeline in the Sakhalin II energy project has been illegally laid through the territory of a national preserve, Russia�s environmental watchdog said Friday. Oleg Mitvol, the deputy head of the Federal Service for the Oversight of [...]