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09 May 2007 14:08:51 GMT
By Robert Campbell
NEW YORK, May 9 (Reuters) – Two reports on the cause of Alaska’s worst onshore oil spill, commissioned by BP Plc
The reports come after a U.S. congressional committee said documents turned over by BP suggest “draconian” cost cutting at the British company’s Alaska operations led to the March 2006 rupture of a corroded oil pipeline at Prudhoe Bay, spilling at least 200,000 gallons of crude oil onto the Arctic tundra.
EXTRACT: “While Shell and its shareholders count their profits all we can count are the early graves that their toxic gas flares keep sending our people. It is morally wrong for Shell to continue with gas flaring despite a ruling that has ordered them to cease it.
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This Day (Lagos)
Posted to the web 9 May 2007
Godwin Haruna
Lagos
The Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) has called on the Shell Petroleum and Development Company (SPDC) to respect a High Court judgment which ordered the global group to stop gas flaring in Iwherekan community in Delta State by April 30, 2007.
EXTRACT: Broadwater Energy is an entity of Royal Dutch/Shell Inc. and TransCanada Energy. Broadwater Corporation intends to erect a 1200 foot-long, 80-100 foot-high LNG terminal in the center of Long Island Sound in New York territorial waters, 11 miles off the coasts of East Haven and Branford. Ocean going tankers will deliver foreign supplies of LNG to the terminal, to service the Northeast region. The U.S. Coast Guard will have to enforce a security zone around the terminal and escort tankers delivering LNG supplies.
By Upstream staff
9 May 2007
Heavily armed gunmen kidnapped four US oil workers from a pipelay barge operating off the Nigerian coast this morning, the ninth attack on western oil interests in the region in as many days.
The attacks come in the wake of April’s general elections which were condemned by observers as fraudulent.
Some militants have stepped up attacks to make clear that they are unimpressed by the looming change in government, despite the election of a state governor from the delta as vice president.
05/09/2007 03:35:15 AM MDT
ProgressNowAction.org, a Denver-based liberal advocacy group, is calling for a federal investigation of the relationship between former Secretary of the Interior Gale Norton and Royal Dutch Shell’s oil shale operations in northwest Colorado.
The group alleges that Norton may have used her influence at the federal agency to approve Shell’s leases in Colorado, followed by Shell hiring Norton as a general counsel for the company’s “unconventional resources” unit that includes oil shale development.
The Associated Press
Published: May 9, 2007
MOSCOW: The bankrupt oil company OAO Yukos will vanish this week, in a flurry of auctions that end more than three years of politically charged legal action that left its former owner jailed and many of its assets snapped up by a state-controlled rival.
Yukos, once regarded as one of Russia’s best-run and most transparent companies, was driven into bankruptcy by back tax bills of some US$30 billion (€22 billion) while former owner Mikhail Khodorkovsky was sentenced to eight years in prison for fraud and tax evasion.
EXTRACT: Environmental concerns also have flared. On March 28, Shell Oil Co. dropped plans to build a terminal in the Gulf of Mexico after opposition from fishermen, who opposed Shell’s plans to use millions of gallons of seawater in the process. Opponents feared that would kill fish larvae.
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Storage terminals are on the rise amid concerns about safety and the environment.
By Alan Syre
Wednesday, May 09, 2007
HACKBERRY, La. — Just down the road from this fishing hamlet in the bayou country of southwestern Louisiana, a massive complex is rising to handle the nation’s growing demand for natural gas.
EXTRACT: Blair has failed to defend British companies. Look at the way that British businessmen can now routinely be extradited to the U.S. without the right to a hearing in their own country. Likewise, he has failed to stand up for Royal Dutch Shell Plc and BP Plc in their contests with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Those are two of the U.K.’s most important companies. A French or U.S. president would battle hard for national champions. Blair couldn’t be bothered.
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By Matthew Lynn
Publié: mercredi 9 mai 2007
Les représentants d’industries et d’ONG se sont rencontrés lors d’une conférence organisée par Shell à Bruxelles portant sur le rôle de l’industrie dans la crise climatique. Ils ont largement convenu qu’un cadre réglementaire stable était nécessaire à une politique efficace de lutte contre le changement climatique.
Oil major Shell International hosted a conference in Brussels on 8 May with the title ‘Is climate change preventable? The role of industry and governments’.
By Craig Timberg
Washington Post Foreign Service
Wednesday, May 9, 2007; Page A10
JOHANNESBURG, May 8 — Militants in Nigeria’s volatile oil-producing region destroyed three pipelines in raids early Tuesday as part of what they said would be a rising campaign of destruction leading up to the inauguration of the nation’s new president on May 29.
Political protests against the election of Umaru Yar’Adua have fizzled in Nigeria since he won the presidency on April 21 in a vote that observers said was profoundly flawed nationwide and, in many places, simply rigged.
By Vincent Nwanma
LAGOS (MarketWatch) — There’s no basis for optimism on the return to Ogoniland by Royal Dutch Shell PLC soon, a community leader said Tuesday, brushing off a Shell statement posted on its Web site Tuesday.
In the statement, Shell said it was optimistic it could return to Ogoniland, where it stopped operating in 1993 following protests by the locals over the impact of its exploration and production activities.
“I wish I could say what’s giving them that optimism,” Ledum Mitee, president of the Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People, or Mosop, said in an interview with Dow Jones Newswires.
Published: May 09, 2007
SHELL Refining Co Bhd, the listed unit of Shell Malaysia, aims to operate its refinery in Port Dickson at 87 per cent of capacity this year, ahead of a planned maintenance shutdown in 2008.
Last year, the company achieved a record utilisation rate of 90.6 per cent compared with 76.2 per cent in 2005. The plant processes crude oil into products like diesel and petrol.
Its chairman Saw Choo Boon said he was confident of achieving the target for this year as there would not be any major shutdowns until 2008.
Published: May 09, 2007
THE number of complaints against gardai is expected to treble in the next year.
The anticipated upsurge in complaints is due to the setting up of the independent Garda Ombudsman Commission, which became operational from midnight.
The outgoing Garda Complaints Board receives about 1,300 a year. But, on the basis of trends in other police jurisdictions in Europe, the commission expects the annual total to reach around 4,000.
Commission members say the number elsewhere averages out at around one for every three members of the police force.
EXTRACT: Shell is considering doubling the size of its Motiva Port Arthur refinery to make it the largest refinery in the US. “We hope to take a final investment decision on it later this year,’’ says David Sexton, vice president of Shell Oil Products for the US.
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By Sheila McNulty in Houston
Gulf of Mexico prospects are so valuable these days that the companies exploring and producing them have started offering the rights to name some of them to employees as a special treat.
In the past year, Dawn Marie Yates, who works in information technology for Chevron, won that right by bidding the highest amount of money in an auction to raise money for the United Way charity.
By Chris Hughes
Published: May 9 2007 03:00 | Last updated: May 9 2007 03:00
Raising dividends is more effective at boosting a company’s share price than launching a share buy-back, according to research by Morgan Stanley.
The findings follow a bumper year for share repurchases, which totalled £46bn in 2006 against only £28bn the year before and which were pursued by blue-chip stocks including Vodafone, BP and Royal Dutch Shell. Some 58 per cent of UK companies have active buy-back programmes, almost twice the level in 2004.
EXTRACT: In the past 12 months, HSE said it had issued six improvement notices and one prohibition notice to Royal Dutch Shell and six improvement notices to Maersk of Denmark.
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By Carola Hoyos and Andrew Taylor in London
Published: May 9 2007 03:00 | Last updated: May 9 2007 03:00
The UK Health and Safety Executive has ordered BPto improve safety on its North Sea oil and gasinstallations, issuing 14 notices to the energy group in the past year.
BP confirmed it had been served the notices. The notices included concerns over maintenance of equipment, leaking pipes and valves that were still being manually operated.
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