Posts from ‘January, 2007’

31.01.2007 01:28 Press Release Today, supporters for the Anti-Shell Campaign took their protest to the Irish Embassy. The action was to target the Irish State; Shell; Statoil and Marathon who are attempting to construct a dangerous and experimental onshore raw gas pipeline and refinery in County Mayo; a beautiful remote part of North West Ireland. [...]

No injuries in incident as crews contain vapour to plant site by Dave S. Clark Wednesday January 31, 2007 Residents and businesses in northern Strathcona County were in lockdown on Sunday afternoon due to the release of an explosive chemical at the Shell Scotford Upgrader. According to Erin Carrier, a spokesperson for Alberta Environment, the [...]

31 Jan 2007 Firdaus Abdullah, Dennis Wong and Adrian David KUCHING: For the second time in three months, a helicopter en route to an offshore oil facility has crashed into the sea, this time off Bintulu. A 26-year-old technician remains missing while seven others and the Super Puma L2’s two pilots were rescued in choppy [...]

KUCHING, Malaysia, (UPI) — A technician was missing after a helicopter carrying employees to offshore oil drilling platforms crashed Tuesday in the South China Sea off Malaysia. Seven passengers and two pilots were rescued, the New Straits Times reported. The missing man was identified as Irwan Fasla Aini Salihin, a technician with a Petronas contractor. [...]

Nine people were injured and one remains missing after a helicopter carrying staff of Malaysian national oil company Petronas crashed in deep seas off the eastern state of Sarawak on Borneo, reports said Wednesday. The Super Puma L2 helicopter, carrying 10 people including two pilots, was reported to have crashed Tuesday en route to an [...]

· Green groups put firm’s damage bill at $20bn · Record earning ‘should go to local communities’ Terry Macalister Wednesday January 31, 2007 Record annual profits to be announced by Shell tomorrow should be used towards paying off a bill estimated at more than $20bn (£10bn) for the damage caused by its oil activities to [...]

01/30/2007: Press Release from Global Community Monitor New report about damage to the environment and communities caused by Shell (CSRwire) SAN FRANCISCO, CA (USA) / AMSTERDAM (The Netherlands) / LONDON (UK) – January 31, 2007 – A new report, launched the day before oil giant Shell announces its 2006 annual profits (on 1 February 2007) [...]

Investment in Iran Likely Exceeds Limit Set by Sanctions Law By IAN TALLEY January 31, 2007 WASHINGTON — The U.S. will likely investigate whether Royal Dutch Shell PLC’s upstream services agreement for a $4.3 billion liquefied-natural-gas project in southern Iran violates its sanctions laws, a State Department spokesman said. U.S. law bars companies from doing [...]

January 30, 2007, 8:34 pm Some prominent lawmakers want the Bush administration to get tough with European and Asian companies moving ahead with big investment deals in Iran’s lucrative oil and gas industry, the backbone of the country’s economy. Royal Dutch Shell and Spain’s Repsol are the latest companies to announce possible multi-billion dollar exploration [...]

Crude-oil futures rose more than 5% to a three-week high of nearly $57 a barrel, boosted by colder U.S. weather and looming OPEC production cuts. Here is Tuesday’s roundup of oil and energy news: * * * EMERGENCY GLOBAL-WARMING SESSION: United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon is planning an emergency meeting of world leaders in [...]

Tuesday, January 30, 2007. Issue 3585. Page 1. By Miriam Elder Staff Writer Recent partnership deals between Rosneft and Gazprom have paved the way for major shifts in the energy industry that will further squeeze out foreign oil majors while enabling a much-needed boost in production, analysts say. The two state-owned companies have emerged from [...]

Videotaped Deposition of former Royal Dutch Shell Group MD and Chief Executive of Shell Exploration & Production – Mr Walter van de Vijver, in Washington, D.C. 16 Wednesday, January 31st, 2007: 17 9:39 a.m. (first 390 pages) Exhibit 290: Walter van de Vijver Deposition (70 pages) Exhibit 291: Walter van de Vijver Deposition (65 pages) [...]

oilpatch deal SCOTIAWATEROUS CNQ paid US$4B for Anadarko’s Canadian assets BY SCOTT DEVEAU Financial Post scdeveau@nationalpost.com The brevity of a deal is sometimes as important as the price, and that certainly was the case with the largest oil and gas acquisition in Canada last year. The breakneck pace in which Canadian NaturalResources Inc.’s “swat team” [...]

20 January 2007 Claims raise fear oil firm will lose control of project AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Russia’s environmental watchdog alleged on Monday violations in the huge Siberian gasfield run by a unit of BP, raising fears that the British oil major could lose control of the project. “We asked for information on (gasfield) Kovykta. . . [...]

EXTRACT: SAKHALIN-2 TAKEOVER: In December, Gazprom ousted Royal Dutch Shell from its leading position in Asia’s biggest energy project, Sakhalin-2. Faced with multi-billion-dollar legal actions and licence recall over environmental damage, Royal Dutch Shell and its two partners, Mitsui and Mitsubishi, agreed to sell just over 50 per cent of their shares to Gazprom. With [...]