Posts on ‘July 9th, 2007’

Tuesday, July 10, 2007. Issue 3695. Page 1. By Anatoly Medetsky Staff Writer Shell and Rosneft will look at joint oil projects in Russia and elsewhere in a potentially lucrative deal that could give the European energy major a chance to widen its access to Russian reserves and shore up its position in the country. [...]

Jack Reardon, guest columnist  —  7/09/2007 11:18 am A recent editorial in The Capital Times congratulated Gov. Jim Doyle for challenging the oil industry’s annual rip-off of raising prices at the start of the summer driving season. Consumers are indeed mad at this “predictable price-gouging ritual” that fattens oil company profits. We want someone to [...]

09 Jul 2007   On July 6 2007 Rosneft Open Joint Stock Company (Rosneft) and Royal Dutch Shell plc (Shell) concluded an Agreement on Strategic Cooperation. The agreement was signed in Moscow by Rosneft President Sergey Bogdanchikov and Shell Chief Executive Jeroen van der Veer.   The Agreement provides the opportunity for joint implementation of [...]

9 July 2007 Dear Friends The recent heritage listing of a large tract of the Burrup Peninsula by the Federal Government acknowledges the great importance of the rock art for all Australians. Public pressure is working. But, despite the listing, Woodside continues to move forward with their unnecessary plans to clear more rock art on [...]

By KATHARINE HOURELD 07.09.07, 10:21 AM ET Gunmen attacked two oil installations in southern Nigeria, kidnapping two senior Nigerian employees of Royal Dutch Shell PLC and two foreigners, security officials and colleagues said Monday. Late Sunday night, gunmen in speedboats attacked a facility on Calabar River and kidnapped two foreign employees, two security contractors said, [...]

16:31 | 09/ 07/ 2007  MOSCOW, July 9 (RIA Novosti) – Russia’s state-controlled oil company Rosneft [RTS: ROSN] said Monday it had signed a strategic partnership agreement with Royal Dutch Shell on the prospective implementation of joint oil and gas projects. Under the deal signed July 6 in Moscow, Rosneft and Shell plan to carry [...]

By BENOIT FAUCON July 9, 2007 8:10 a.m. LONDON — Royal Dutch Shell Monday said it has signed a cooperation deal with Rosneft for oil and gas production and refining in Russia and abroad.   The agreement comes after the recent loss of control of a Sakhalin project by Shell and after similar cooperation deal [...]

Oh, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive! (Quote from Sir Walter Scott 1771-1832) The Royal Dutch Shell Group is once again caught deceiving the public. The Dutch Advertising Standards Authority has ruled that a complaint made by Friends of the Earth Netherlands about a Royal Dutch Shell “green” themed [...]

Mon Jul 9, 2007 2:32 PM BST (Adds details, analysts throughout) By Dmitry Zhdannikov and Tanya Mosolova MOSCOW, July 9 (Reuters) – Oil major Royal Dutch/Shell on Monday signalled an attempt to rebuild its exposure to Russia, which was badly cut last year, by signing a framework cooperation deal with state-controlled Rosneft. Shell said it would [...]

11:37 | 09/ 07/ 2007  MOSCOW, July 9 (RIA Novosti) – Sakhalin Energy, the operator of the Sakhalin II oil and gas project off Russia’s Pacific Coast, said Monday it had started drilling the first offshore gas wells from the Lunskoye-A platform. The platform is Russia’s first gas-producing offshore platform located at the Lunskoye gas [...]

By Greg Walters July 9 (Bloomberg) — OAO Gazprom and Royal Dutch Shell Plc’s Sakhalin-2 project started drilling from Russia’s first offshore natural gas platform. Project operator Sakhalin Energy Investment Co. began drilling from the Lunskoye-A platform off Sakhalin Island in Russia’s Far East, the company said in an e-mailed statement today. The well is [...]

By Steve Newman Universal Press Syndicate Tucson, Arizona | Published: 07.09.2007   Noise starvation The critically endangered western gray whale population has abandoned its only known feeding area this summer, and conservationists blame noise pollution from a gas and oil project in the Russian Far East. The World Wildlife Fund said the construction of an [...]

LONDON (Thomson Financial) – Sakhalin Energy said it has started drilling wells at the offshore Lunskoye gas and condensate field in north-eastern Sakhalin island. The holes will be spudded from the Lunskoye-A platform, which is designed to withstand harsh climate and rough seas, it said. ‘The commencement of drilling of the first wells from Lunskoye-A [...]

· Father of snatched child says no ransom was paid · Intense security service pressure led to freedom Sarah Knapton Monday July 9, 2007 Margaret Hill, the three-year-old British girl abducted by gunmen in southern Nigeria last week, was last night released and returned to her parents. She was unharmed apart from a rash of [...]

July 9, 2007 Suzy Jagger in New York Libya has invited international energy companies to bid for 12 onshore and offshore gas drilling permits as part of its drive to boost gas exports. The National Oil Corporation (NOC), the state-owned Libyan oil group, said yesterday on its website that exploration and production companies had until [...]