Posts on ‘August 12th, 2007’

Topics on Russia and the former Soviet Union Sunday, August 12, 2007 � Independent news website Huliq.com has the story of Alfred and John Donovan and how their small grudge-match against Royal Dutch Shell cost that corporation billions in Sakhalin-2. Huliq accepts citizen-journalist news reports, of which this is article is one, and penned by [...]

August 12th, 2007 13:07 Mr. Donovan I was the Shell MSO operator in Orlando, Florida (26 sites) until Sept. 2006. I am currently in a law suit with them over several transgressions they perpetrated during our relationship including non-payment of my transition payment ($130,000) upon our mutual termination of our agreement and their subsequent sale [...]

By Richard McGregor in Beijing Published: August 12 2007 17:52 | Last updated: August 12 2007 17:52 Sinopec, China�s largest energy company by revenue, has revived negotiations with a number of foreign partners to build a $5bn-plus refinery in southern Guangdong, near Hong Kong. Wang Tianpu, Sinopec�s president, told local and foreign journalists in Beijing [...]

Risk in Russia: The price of stability August 2007 Sam Jones, Staff writer Yukos, back in 2004, did not put pay to the government’s aggressive relationship with energy investors in Russia. Until June this year, TNK-BP (a joint venture owned by British fields, the huge Kovykta reserves. The company, however, failed to deliver on its [...]

GEORGE ONAH Port Harcourt Posted to the Web: Sunday, August 12, 2007 *15 killed *Okiro, defence chief rush in *Residents call for emergency rule SHOOTINGS, allegedly by cultists, for the sixth day running, continued in Port Harcourt, Rivers State capital, yesterday, as no fewer than 15 persons were killed and scores injured in an early [...]

DOW JONES NEWSWIRES August 7, 2007 8:18 a.m. (Updates an item at 0926 GMT with comments from Shell spokeswoman.) LONDON (Dow Jones)–Royal Dutch Shell PLC (RDSB.LN) has evacuated workers from its North Sea Brent Bravo platform after the facility suffered a power outage Friday. Workers were taken off the platform Sunday after a power generator [...]

DOW JONES NEWSWIRES MOSCOW (Dow Jones)–Russian environmental regulator Oleg Mitvol Thursday denied a report in a Russian tabloid daily citing him as claiming that Royal Dutch Shell Group (RDSA) tried to bribe him. A report in the daily “Tvoy Den” cited him as claiming that Shell offered $50 million to drop environmental investigations that appeared [...]

A Shell spokeswoman said that the company “refutes the claim made by the newspaper that Shell or its representatives attempted to bribe Russian government officials in the course of inspections of the Sakhalin-2 project.” “This statement is completely groundless,” she added. The newspaper -which as a rule concentrates more on celebrity and human interest stories [...]

(Matthias Clamer) Fueled by Conscience Sister Patricia Daly (in navy suit) and some members of her other other — of concerned shareholders. By DASHKA SLATER Published: August 12, 2007 Daly�s order, the Sisters of Saint Dominic of Caldwell, N.J., owns about 300 of the 5.5 billion Exxon Mobile shares outstanding, but she has used those [...]

Web posted at: 8/12/2007 3:32:21: Source: AP DUBAI � As the deadline nears for the US military commander in Iraq to report on the country�s political progress, international oil companies are forging alliances to develop its prized fields. US General David Petraeus has until mid-September to submit his report to Washington and oil multinationals believe [...]

Web Posted: 08/11/2007 12:01 PM CDT Twenty years ago, the Soviet Union was on the verge of catastrophe. People who suffered under the repressive rule of the communist regime in Moscow had lost faith in its guiding ideology. Calls for internal reform met with increased internal repression. Revenue from the energy sector had for years [...]

By Angela Macdonald-Smith Aug. 12 (Bloomberg) — Exxon Mobil Corp., the world’s biggest publicly traded oil company, plans to study the potential for natural gas discoveries below existing fields off southeast Australia after adding to resources there in the past two years. A venture between Exxon and BHP Billiton Ltd. found 300 billion cubic feet [...]