Posts on ‘August 8th, 2007’

By Isabel Gorst in Moscow Published: August 7 2007 21:05 | Last updated: August 7 2007 21:05 Vladimir Putin on Tuesday accepted the resignation of Ivan Malakhov, the governor of Sakhalin Island, and named Alexander Khoroshavin, the mayor of Okha, an oil town on the north-east of the island, as his temporary replacement. The Russian [...]

NORVAL SCOTT August 8, 2007 CALGARY — Alberta’s energy regulator yesterday approved an application by North West Upgrading Inc. to build a new upgrader northeast of Edmonton that could eventually process 231,000 barrels a day of bitumen blend. The province has seen a recent wave of upgrader-related announcements. Last week, Royal Dutch Shell PLC said [...]

August 8th, 2007 00:55 The public should know that a case like this can only be handled by the best of attorneys. I employed two attorneys, one specialized in employment law and the other is a professor of law at Tulane University and manages his own firm in New Orleans. If anyone is seeking attorneys [...]

By James Daley, Personal Finance Editor Published: 08 August 2007 The pension funds of Britain’s largest companies have seen a dramatic turnaround in their fortunes over the last year, with the schemes of the FTSE 100 combined registering a net surplus for the first time in five years. The annual Accounting for Pensions survey, published [...]

By MICHAEL R. GORDON Published: August 8, 2007 BAGHDAD, Aug. 7 � Attacks on American-led forces using a lethal type of roadside bomb said to be supplied by Iran reached a new high in July, according to the American military. The devices, known as explosively formed penetrators, were used to carry out 99 attacks last [...]

By Angela Macdonald-Smith Aug. 8 (Bloomberg) — Royal Dutch Shell Plc, Europe’s largest oil company, and Nexus Energy Ltd. started drilling the first well in a program off northwest Australia to seek reserves suitable for liquefied natural gas production. Drilling started at the Fossetmaker-1 well in the Browse Basin on Aug. 6, part of a [...]

�� What’s New: Kazakhstan may remove Italy’s Eni as operator of a key project after production delays and cost overruns. �� The Trend: Kazakhstan’s stance comes as resource nationalism is on the rise in other oil-rich nations, such as Venezuela and Russia. �� What’s Next: Firing Eni is unlikely because of the project’s complexities, but [...]

Sakhalin gray whale Credit: ICUN / David W. Weller August 7, 2007 Courtesy of� Far North Science By Doug O’Harra Hunted almost to the brink of extinction, the gnarly gray whales of the eastern North Pacific have rebounded to about 20,000 animals. That population, protected from commercial whaling for many decades, now treks from the [...]