Posts on ‘March 1st, 2007’

Article: Shell CEO issues LETTER OF CENSURE to Malcolm Brinded Other ShellNews.net articles…  09/02/2007  Do you have grounds for a lawsuit against Shell? 01/02/2007  Prospect Magazine: How a website humbled an oil industry giant 27/01/2007  GRIPING AND GRINNING: SHELL’S REPUTATION 20/01/2007  Shell to investigate fraud and corruption inside Shell Group 20/01/2007  Coming soon… What Shell says about [...]

Headline: Short film is central to $100m campaign March 02, 2007 Steve Hawkes Shell is spending an estimated $100 million (£55 million) on a global advertising campaign built around a film shot by the director of The Last King of Scotland that is nine minutes long, The Times has learnt. The film, commissioned from Kevin [...]

March 02, 2007 Carl Mortished, International Business Editor A new road fuel made from wood chips and straw will be launched in Europe later this year from a pilot plant developed by Shell and Choren Industries, the German biofuel company. The synthetic diesel, made using a novel biomass-to-liquids (BTL) process, will shift the biodiesel industry [...]

March 02, 2007 Letters to the Editor Sir, Why do we stupidly waste money, petrol and time on affinity cards, loyalty cards and air miles? I had a Sheraton card with many points on it, which I recently tried to use, unsuccesfully, at its Tel Aviv hotel. I have never saved one penny with a [...]

Jeroen van der Veer drawn into Brent Bravo unlawful deaths scandal By John Donovan In August 2006, I wrote a tongue-in-cheek “Open Letter” to Shell CEO, Jeroen van der Veer about the Brent Bravo scandal asking… ShellNews.net: When is Shell going to sue former Shell International Group Auditor Bill Campbell for defamation? It appears that [...]

March 1, 2007, 7:38AM MOSCOW — OAO Gazprom has discussed forming a joint venture with BP PLC that could work with liquefied natural gas, Russia’s state-controlled gas monopoly said in a statement Thursday. BP’s outgoing Chief Executive John Browne met with Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller at the company’s Moscow headquarters on Thursday, the statement said. [...]

Thursday, March 1, 2007 VOLUME 1 ISSUE 287 PetroChina Company Ltd. (PetroChina) and Shell China Exploration and Production Ltd. (Shell) announced today the start of commercial production and gas delivery from the Changbei gas field. PetroChina and Shell are jointly developing the field under a Production Sharing Contract, with Shell currently being the field development [...]

By JOHN J. FIALKA March 1, 2007; Page A4 WASHINGTON — The Department of Energy has kicked off a technological horse race to see which among six companies can produce a transportation fuel that is an alternative to corn-based ethanol, in commercial quantities, at a cost of around $1 a gallon. Companies successful in producing [...]

Published: Mar 01, 2007 An engineering joint venture between US group Foster Wheeler and Japan’s Chiyoda has won a prestigious contract for a groundbreaking liquefied natural gas project in Nigeria, writes Tony Gray . The partners have been awarded a contract by Nigeria LNG for the front-end engineering design of the SevenPlus project, which involves [...]

Lorna Siggins & Aine Ryan Published: Mar 01, 2007 The negative social and environmental implications of the Corrib gas controversy on “the parish, community and beyond” have been strongly highlighted in an objection by the parish priest of Kilcommon (Erris, north Mayo) to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). In his submission, Fr Michael Nallen argues [...]

Wednesday February 28, 2007 MediaGuardian.co.uk Guardian stories which have been written using the freedom of information since it came into force in January 2005 EXTRACTS · How Shell improperly lobbied a cabinet minister over a huge gas plant in Russia. · Documents revealed health and safety concerns about Shell’s oil rigs in the North Sea. [...]

(Russia’s Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov stands between flags during a signing ceremony for cooperation agreements with Japan at Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s official residence in Tokyo, February 28, 2007.) Mar. 01, 2007 Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov and the numerous delegation of ministers and businessmen spoke in Tokyo yesterday, persuading Japan to increase investment [...]

Posted on : Thu, 01 Mar 2007 01:57:00 GMT MOSCOW, Feb. 28 It’s official now: Gazprom officially owns a majority share in the Sakhalin-2 project in Russia’s Far East with its board’s vote Wednesday. The state-run gas monopoly announced in December it had come to terms on the purchase of a 50 percent plus one [...]

Wednesday 28 February @ 13:10:15  by Emily Lindell & Dan Gannon By June 2005, the residents of the tiny community of Rossport, Ireland, had had enough. For years, they had registered objections and appeals to the Shell gas pipeline project proposed to run through their farming and fishing community. By mid-year, the corporate interests were [...]

HOUSTON, Feb 28 (Reuters) – Workers were attempting to repair a propane leak on Wednesday that forced the evacuation of workers from a section of Shell Oil Co.’s joint-venture 334,000 barrel-per-day (bpd) refinery in Deer Park, Texas, according to a report on a Houston television station. A spokesman for Deer Park Refining L.P., which operates [...]