Compiled by Anne-Marie Conway, Last Updated: 11:33pm BST 11/08/2007 Shell suit in San Francisco On Tuesday a San Francisco appeal court is expected to decide whether to allow Royal Dutch Shell to resume exploratory oil drilling off Alaska’s north coast. The Alaska Wilderness League claims drilling could put polar bears and whales at risk. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/08/12/nweek212.xml
Posts on ‘August 11th, 2007’
Citizens Campaign for the Environment: Meeting New York’s Energy Need Without Broadwater
EXTRACT Broadwater energy, a joint venture between Shell Oil and TransCanada Pipeline, is proposing to build a floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU). The unit would receive, store, and regasify liquefied natural gas (LNG) from oversea gas fields. Proposed for the middle of Long Island Sound, the LNG barge would require a 25-mile pipeline dug [...]
BBC News: Gangs clash in Nigerian oil city
Saturday, 11 August 2007, 13:36 GMT 14:36 UK Four people have been killed in gun battles between rival gangs in Port Harcourt, the main city in Nigeria’s oil-rich Niger Delta region. A large fuel-pumping station in the city was also attacked. The latest violence brings the number killed in nearly a week of fighting [...]
Blogger News Network: 90 YR OLD WEBSITE WARRIOR COSTS ROYAL DUTCH SHELL BILLIONS
A 90 year old war veteran, Alfred Donovan, created a gripe website focused on Shell which, in an extraordinary alliance with the so-called “Kremlin attack dog” Oleg Mitvol, has cost the oil giant billions of dollars and as a by-product, changed the course of history. This article tells the story of how a $4 a [...]
The New York Times: Russia: Bombers Resume Long-Haul Missions
By C. J. CHIVERS Published: August 10, 2007 Maj. Gen. Pavel Androsov, the commander of Russia’s long-range aviation forces, said its long-range strategic bombers, once part of the Soviet Union’s nuclear forces, had held new flight exercises that included passing by a United States naval base in Guam and trips to the North and South [...]
Congress of The United States: Amendment to Delay Shell Broadwater Energy Project
EXTRACT: Broadwater Energy is a joint venture between TransCanada Pipeline and Royal Dutch Shell. Broadwater seeks to import fossil fuel from Nigeria to be stored in an almost quarter-mile long LNG barge on the Long Island Sound. WASHINGTON, DC – Representatives Tim Bishop (NY-01), Rosa DeLauro (CT-03) and Joe Courtney (CT-02) sought to restrict the Federal [...]
The Wall Street Journal: ‘Iran should halt the export of sophisticated explosive devices used to attack U.S. troops in Iraq’ (*Shell’s partner, Iran)
Car Bomb Kills Eight in Kirkuk; U.S. Helicopter Is Forced Down Associated Press August 10, 2007 10:44 p.m. BAGHDAD — A car bomb struck a market in a Kurdish area in the northern city of Kirkuk Friday, killing at least eight people and wounding dozens, police said. South of Baghdad, the military said a U.S. [...]
The Standard: Sinopec eyes joint venture in US$5b refinery project
Fulton Mak and agencies, The Standard Published: Aug 11, 2007 China Petroleum & Chemical Corp (0386), or Sinopec, is looking at jointly developing a US$5 billion (HK$39 billion) refinery and ethylene venture in Guangdong with Royal Dutch Shell, Dow Chemical, and Kuwait Petroleum Corp. Sinopec, Asia’s largest refiner, and its would-be oil giant partners are [...]
PR Newswire (Europe): Platts Survey: OPEC Pumps 30.5 mb/d in July, up 280,000 b/d
LONDON, August 11 /PRNewswire/ – The 12 members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) pumped an average 30.5 million b/d of crude in July, 280,000 b/d higher than June’s 30.22 million b/d, a Platts (http://www.platts.com/) survey showed August 10. Production from the 10 members bound by output agreements averaged 26.71 million b/d, up [...]
The Guardian: Canada uses military might in Arctic scramble
(Lancaster Sound, Nunavut, Canada. Global warming has made the Arctic’s oil and gas reserves more accessible Photograph: Louise Murray/Science Photo Library) · Building programme is response to Russian move · UN to decide on seabed claims to huge oil deposits Ewen MacAskill in Washington Saturday August 11, 2007 An international scramble for the Arctic’s oil [...]
The Times: Arctic military bases signal new Cold War
August 11, 2007 Tim Reid in Washington Canada fired a warning shot in a new Cold War over the vast resources of the far North by announcing last night that it will build two new military bases in the Arctic wilderness. A week after Russia laid claim to the North Pole in what is [...]
Petroleum News: Russia defends North Pole flag-planting
Vol. 12, No. 32 Week of August 12, 2007 The Associated Press The United States and Canada have scoffed at a Russian submarine expedition that planted a Russian flag on the seabed under the North Pole. Coming home to a hero’s welcome Aug. 8, the famous polar scientist who led the risky voyage did not [...]
Petroleum News: Shell group chooses subsea pipelines over FPSO for offshore Perdido development
Vol. 12, No. 32 Week of August 12, 2007 Ray Tyson For Petroleum News Shell and partners Chevron and BP have opted for subsea pipelines, rather than what might have been the Gulf of Mexico’s first-ever floating, production, storage and offloading system or FPSO, to transport production to shore from their “ultra-deepwater” and highly acclaimed [...]
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