Posts on ‘May 14th, 2007’

Tuesday May 15, 2007 The war in Iraq has brought enormous suffering to the Iraqi people, with an estimated 655,000 Iraqis killed and millions more displaced. Even so, some companies – such as Shell – are hoping to profit from this suffering. Indeed, since March 2003, Shell has been working closely with the occupying powers [...]

· Suitors say Merrill Lynch will underwrite £35bn · ABN Amro chief pulls out from joining Shell board Jill Treanor Tuesday May 15, 2007 The chief executive of ABN Amro, the Dutch bank embroiled in the world’s biggest banking takeover, has rejected a seat on the board of oil company Shell to concentrate on the [...]

· Suitors say Merrill Lynch will underwrite £35bn · ABN Amro chief pulls out from joining Shell board Jill Treanor Tuesday May 15, 2007 The chief executive of ABN Amro, the Dutch bank embroiled in the world’s biggest banking takeover, has rejected a seat on the board of oil company Shell to concentrate on the [...]

By Richard Blackden, Online City Editor ABN Amro’s beleaguered chief executive Rikjman Groenink has withdrawn his nomination for a seat on the board of oil giant Royal Dutch Shell in order to devote his attention to the sale of the Dutch bank. Shell said today that Mr Groenink wants to “fully dedicate his attention to [...]

EXTRACT: Rijkman Groenink, the ABN chief executive, bowed to shareholder pressure and pulled out of plans to join the board of Shell as a nonexecutive director. ABP, the Dutch pension fund, had threatened to vote against Mr Groenink at the Shell shareholders meeting today, arguing that he needed to devote 100 per cent of his [...]

EXTRACT: It turns out that a 90 year old British army veteran Alfred Donovan acquired the domain name www.pipextelecommunicationsplc.com a year ago. THE ATICLE At the worst possible time, with UK broadband and web hosting company Pipex up for sale, David Hasselhoff, the celebrity fronting its TV advertising campaign is on YouTube drunk, the ISP [...]

John Hofmeister, President of Shell Oil Company, talks with TODAY anchor Meredith Vieira about rising gas prices. By Mike Celizic TODAYShow.com contributor Updated: 3:27 p.m. ET May 14, 2007 Unless Congress allows expanded drilling on the outer continental shelf of the United States, fuel prices are going to continue to increase, the head of the [...]

By Tom Bergin LONDON (Reuters) – NATO is talking to oil and gas producing companies and countries about how it could help combat security threats to energy infrastructure, a senior NATO official said on Monday. Jamie Shea, Director of Policy Planning in the Private Office of the NATO Secretary General, said the likely measures would [...]

By Mark Shenk May 14 (Bloomberg) — Crude oil was little changed amid speculation that consumption will increase as refiners boost the production of gasoline and other fuels. A government report will show that U.S. refineries raised operating rates for a third week, according to a Bloomberg News survey. Refiners upgrade units before the summer [...]

14 May 2007 The embattled chief executive of ABN Amro, Rijkman Groenink, has bowed to shareholder pressure and scrapped plans to join the board of Royal Dutch Shell as a non-executive director.   In a terse statement today the oil giant said Groenink had ‘requested the withdrawal of his nomination at this time’ because he [...]

May 14, 2007 Miles Costello Another slap in the face for Rijkman Groenink, currently hanging on by his fingernails at ABN Amro as major Dutch shareholders call for this head. Being forced to dispense with a lucrative board seat at Shell, just 24 hours before some investors were due to vote against it, should please [...]

By Alfred Donovan Monday 14 May 2007 The following Royal Dutch Shell Directors and officials were given advance sight of the article below and have chosen not to comment or seek injunctive legal proceedings: Shell CEO Jeroen van der Veer, Malcolm Brinded (Executive Director of Shell EP), Keith Ruddock (General Counsel Shell EP), Richard Wiseman [...]

By John Donovan The following Royal Dutch Shell Directors and officials were given advance sight of the article below and have chosen not to comment: Shell CEO Jeroen van der Veer, Malcolm Brinded, Executive Director of Shell EP, Keith Ruddock (General Counsel Shell EP), Richard Wiseman, General Counsel of Shell International Ltd and last, but [...]

I thought of writing a rebuttal to Sweeney’s nonsense but find that it is well done here: http://risingtide.org.uk/resources/factsheets/carbontrading take a look Paddy Paddy Briggs worked for Shell for 37 years during the last fifteen of which he was responsible for Brand management in a number of appointments. He was the winner of the “Shell/Economist” writing [...]

May 14, 2007 PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria (AP) — Six gunmen wearing military fatigues seized a Nigerian staff member of the Italian oil company Agip on Monday in Nigeria’s southern petroleum region, police said. The assailants grabbed the human resources manager for Agip, a subsidiary of Italian oil giant Eni SpA, as he drove to work, [...]