Posts on ‘March 16th, 2007’

By Hayley Pinkerfield Revolution UK 16-Mar-07, 13:17 LONDON – Royal Dutch Shell is launching an interactive campaign site to support a new brand positioning. The site, created by Digit, is part of a global communication campaign, pitching Shell’s quest to secure a responsible energy future. It marks the company’s first fully integrated online marketing message. [...]

Fri Mar 16, 2007 12:17 PM EDT   CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) – Shell Canada Ltd. (SHC.TO: Quote) stock hovered below the price of its parent company’s C$8.7 billion ($7.4 billion) bid for the minority shareholding on Friday, a sign investors saw little chance of a sweeter offer hours before the expiry. Shell Canada was off [...]

Fri Mar 16, 2007 12:17 PM BST LAGOS, March 16 (Reuters) – Royal Dutch Shell (RDSa.L: Quote, Profile , Research) has begun repairs to a ruptured trunk pipeline in Nigeria that forced it to cut 187,000 barrels of oil per day (bpd) output on March 4, a spokesman said on Friday. Work on the pipeline [...]

March 16, 2007 Posted to the web March 16, 2007 Emma Arubi Warri THE Egbema Survival Movement (ESM) in Warri North Local Government Council of Delta State has called on the federal and state governments to urgently address the issues of neglect and marginalisation visited on their communities. They also called on Shell Petroleum Development [...]

TEHRAN, March 16 (MNA) — Four big oil companies purchased the tender documents of 17 oil blocks in Iran, said National Iranian Oil Company’s (NIOC) exploration manager here on Friday.   Of over 30 domestic and foreign bidders, four oil companies bought the documents, Hossein Roshandel told MNA. He declined to directly name the purchasers, [...]

15/03/2007 THE Prins Willem-Alexander School in Woking has also excelled with its exam results, following the curriculum operated in the Netherlands. The Dutch school in Old Woking Road, which caters for children aged four to 12, has  achieved the highest results in the annual CITO exams of all Dutch schools in the Netherlands and overseas. [...]

By Angela Macdonald-Smith March 16 (Bloomberg) — Woodside Petroleum Ltd. and Santos Ltd., Australia’s second- and third-largest oil and gas producers, are ramping up production at oil fields off the northwest coast that were closed last week on the approach of a tropical cyclone. The Woodside-operated North West Shelf venture yesterday reconnected the production vessel [...]

By Angela Macdonald-Smith March 16 (Bloomberg) — Tohoku Electric Power Co., Japan’s fourth-largest power utility, agreed to double the volume of liquefied natural gas it buys from Australia’s North West Shelf venture. Tohoku Electric, based in Sendai City, agreed to increase its LNG purchases from the Perth-based venture by about 500,000 metric tons a year [...]

FIRST ARTICLE: Bloomberg: Total’s De Margerie Says Refining Is `Strategic’ for Company By Tara Patel March 15 (Bloomberg) — Total SA, Europe’s third-largest oil company, will invest 1 billion euros a year through 2010 in refining, a “strategic” business for the company, its chief executive officer said. “Refining remains an important strategy for us,” Chief [...]

March 15, 2007 Posted to the web March 16, 2007 Jim Fisher-Thompson Washington, DC The United States is partnering with Nigeria to counter growing violence in its oil-rich delta region that is threatening an ally that has made valuable contributions to peacekeeping and regional stability in Africa, says a U.S. defense official. Theresa Whelan, deputy [...]

Deal comes week after agreement to promote use Associated Press SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL — An official from Brazil’s state-run oil firm Petroleo Brasileiro, or Petrobras, said the company plans to start exporting ethanol to the United States in 2007. Silas Oliva Filho, manager of ethanol and oxygenates at Petrobras, said during a sugar and ethanol [...]

Royal Dutch’s $8.7-billion offer for rest of its Canadian unit expires tonight By DAVID EBNER Friday, March 16, 2007 Page B3   CALGARY — Royal Dutch Shell PLC’s $45-a-share offer for Shell Canada Ltd. expires tonight, and several investors say the takeover attempt will be a close call. Royal Dutch, one of the world’s biggest [...]

BY GORDON HAMILTON GREENHOUSE GASES Canadian oil and gas companies have failed to take action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, putting themselves and their investors at risk of the the kind of eco- campaigns that targeted forest companies or the multi- billion- dollar lawsuits launched against tobacco companies, according to a new sustainability report. Head [...]

By Upstream staff Iran’s Oil Minister Kazem Vaziri-Hamaneh has insisted that tougher United Nations sanctions would fail to choke development of Iran’s oil and gas industry. US, UK , French, German, Russian and Chinese diplomats at the UN have reached a tentative deal on imposing fresh sanctions on Iran and hope to introduce the measure [...]

March 15, 2007, 5:56 pm Posted by WSJ.com Staff BP has been criticized for its safety standards since the deadly Texas City refinery explosion in 2005. But Royal Dutch Shell was a far more dangerous company to work for in the past two years. Thirty-seven Shell employees and contractors died last year, the company reported [...]