Posts on ‘November 21st, 2006’

EXTRACT: He said Russia wants Royal Dutch Shell PLC’s Sakhalin II project, which has faced unprecedented pressure in recent months from Russian environmental and other regulators, to be successful. But he said a $10 billion cost overrun in the project amounts to “a substantial change in the terms of the deal” and must be negotiated [...]

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL ONLINE Crude-oil futures surged more than $1 to settle at $60.17 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange, on news that restrictions imposed on the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System due to high winds will cut capacity by 25%. Here is Tuesday’s roundup of oil and energy news: * * * IAEA [...]

November 21, 2006 Frothing technique will reduce GHGs and water use, says company By IAN WILSON,CALGARY SUN Shell Canada is touting a new oilsands technology which it says will use less water and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The Calgary-based company said its Shell Enhance froth treatment technology will eliminate 40,000 tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions [...]

  (Recent graduates of LSU who are now employed by Shell accept Shell’s $3.5 million donation for coastal studies and business recovery. The donation is the largest one-time cash pledge from an energy company in the University’s history.) Sarah Yokubaitis Posted: 11/21/06 Shell Oil Products Co. made a record $3.5 million donation to the University [...]

By Eliana Raszewski Nov. 21 (Bloomberg) — Argentine oil refinery workers began a strike demanding that companies, including Royal Dutch Shell Plc. and Repsol YPF SA, help cover income taxes on overtime pay, union leader Alberto Roberti said. The 18,000 refinery workers throughout the country are seeking the same benefits that companies granted last week [...]

By Fred Pals Nov. 21 (Bloomberg) — Royal Dutch Shell Plc and Exxon Mobil Corp. will start to pump natural gas in January from a Dutch wetland that contains as much as 170 billion cubic meters of the fuel, said the head of their production venture. Shell and Exxon’s joint company has licenses to explore [...]

21/11/2006 – 2:26:18 PM Politicians from across the spectrum are criticising Garda behaviour during protests against the Corrib Gas Pipeline. The Labour Party, the Greens, Sinn Féin and a number of independent TDs say the ‘Shell to Sea’ campaign group have been subjected to police brutality. Demonstrators claim the Gardaí have been given orders to [...]

Bloggers and US internet providers cannot be liable for posting defamatory comments written by third parties, the California Supreme Court has ruled. It followed the case of San Diego woman sued after posting allegedly libellous comments online about two doctors. Some of the internet’s biggest names including Google, eBay and Amazon have supported a woman [...]

Nov 22, 2006     THE NEW WORLD OIL ORDER,  Part 1 By W Joseph Stroupe Russia has found the Achilles’ heel of the US colossus. In concert with its oil-producing partners and the rising powerhouse economies of the East, Russia is altering the foundations of the current US-led liberal global oil-market order, insidiously working to undermine [...]

MOSCOW, Nov 21 (Prime-Tass) — Russian President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that Russian authorities would keep cracking down on “big companies” that violate legislation, ITAR-TASS reported. “Despite political blackmail, we’ve investigated some big companies and will keep doing that,” Putin said at a meeting with law enforcement officials. Russian authorities have recently probed the compliance [...]

21/11/2006 – 16:12:21 A cross party delegation joined forces today to call for an independent commission over the controversial Corrib gas pipe line. The campaign against the 9km high pressured pipe line through Rossport, Co Mayo heightened as six public representatives backed local residents’ demands. Activists earlier stressed they planned to step up their campaign [...]

16:23 | 21/ 11/ 2006  MOSCOW, November 21 (RIA Novosti) – The Natural Recourses Ministry said Tuesday that Russia should claim compensation, through an international arbitration court, for environmental damage and lost profits caused by violations in the Shell-led Sakhalin II oil and gas project in the country’s Far East. Earlier in November the country’s [...]

RBC, 21.11.2006, Moscow 13:18:35. Russia’s Industry and Energy Ministry is poised to complete negotiations on the Sakhalin-2 budget before the year-end, Deputy Minister Andrei Dementyev told journalists today. He explained that they would include reviewing the estimated costs of the project proposed by the Sakhalin Energy Consortium, and some other agreements. The Industry and Energy [...]

Mark Fass New York Law Journal November 1, 2005 The contents of a New Jersey man’s “gripe site” — a 45-page Web site dedicated to the perceived misdeeds of his car insurer — were protected free speech that did not constitute defamation, a Manhattan judge has ruled. Penn Warranty Corp. alleged that Ronald DiGiovanni’s site [...]

By: Oil major to manage 27 ships for Qatar company in 25-year deal, writes Tony Gray, Lloyds List: Published: Nov 21, 2006 A prestigious contract to manage at least 27 liquefied natural gas carriers owned by Qatar Gas Transport (Nakilat) has been won by Shell. Nakilat, which has ambitions to become a leading operator in [...]