Posts on ‘September 21st, 2007’

September 22, 2007 Since the 1990s, Royal Dutch Shell has been at war with a family who registered a website, royaldutchshellplc.com. The Donovan family, led by 90-year-old Burma veteran Alfred, perhaps quixotically want Shell to change its management. Shell has failed to shut down the site, which has attracted job applications and, allegedly, even a [...]

Print Date : Saturday, September 22, 2007 TEHRAN (Dispatches) — The biggest oil and gas companies in Europe said in spite of France’s call, are serious in investing in Iran. European nations have failed to echo France’s call to its oil and gas companies not to bid for projects in Iran, Reuters reported. Tehran says [...]

By Ed Crooks in London Published: September 21 2007 20:35 | Last updated: September 21 2007 20:35 Royal Dutch Shell and Saudi Aramco are to invest $7bn in their refinery at Port Arthur, Texas, making it the biggest in the US, even though they expect margins in the industry to fall. A shortage of refining [...]

Mark Milner, industrial editor Friday September 21, 2007 Royal Dutch Shell and a Saudi Arabian partner have given the go-ahead to a $7bn investment which will more than double the size of their refinery in Port Arthur, Texas. The refinery, which is jointly owned by the Anglo-Dutch group and Saudi Refining, has a capacity of [...]

CALGARY, Sept. 21 /CNW/ – Shell and Tree Canada today announced an extensive tree-planting program. Backed by a $235,000 contribution to Tree Canada from Shell, the program will see more than 120,000 trees planted across sites in British Columbia, Alberta, Ontario and Quebec that need reforestation. “Shell’s work with Tree Canada contributes to greener communities [...]

By John Donovan We have printed below our recent correspondence with Shell regarding the resignation of John Stubbs. As can be seen, the information was supplied by Shell insiders.  EMAIL FROM JOHN DONOVAN TO ROYAL DUTCH SHELL PLC COMPANY SECRETARY MICHIEL BRANDJES:  19 September 2007 —–Original Message—– From: John Donovan [mailto:john@shellnews.net] Sent: woensdag 19 september [...]

 ”How is Shell going to deliver elephant projects without any elephant riders?” 21 September 2007 Dear Mr Van der Veer I understand that the highly respected and experienced project manager, John Stubbs, resigned after falling out with the Executive Director of Shell EP, Malcolm Brinded, who has never himself actually delivered a frontier project. According [...]

ERIC REGULY September 21, 2007 at 7:16 AM EDT ROME — For the peak-oil crowd, that merry band of doomsters who believe global oil production is about to go into irreversible decline and plunge us into a new Stone Age, the timing couldn’t have been better. As the Association for the Study of Peak Oil [...]

Rob McKay, Melbourne, Lloyds List Published: Sep 21, 2007 AUSTRALIA is flavour of the year in gas exports. A series of ever more promising contract announcements were made, culminating in Perth company Woodside’s mammoth A$35bn-A$45bn ($29bn-$38bn) PetroChina deal at the start of September, involving 2m-3m tonnes a year over 15-20 years, starting in 2013-2015, writes [...]

Lloyds List: Bright future in store for LNG in China Keith Wallis, Lloyds List Published: Sep 21, 2007 CHINA’S liquefied natural gas imports are still tiny compared with the volume of coal imports. But that is set to change as oil companies continue to invest in new LNG terminals, ink supply pacts and China implements [...]

Tony Gray, Lloyds List Published: Sep 21, 2007 A BURST of activity has seen liquefied natural gas return to the front pages. After a year-long quiet spell, during which rising construction costs seemed to ensure little progress was made in advancing projects, there has been a rapid flow of positive news in the past two [...]

Rebecca LeMay, Published: Sep 21, 2007 PERTH, Sept 21 AAP – Japan’s Osaka Gas Co has paid Nexus Energy Ltd $75 million for a 15 per cent interest in the Crux liquids project, implying a total value for the project of $500 million. The Crux field is in the Browse Basin offshore Western Australia. In [...]

Published: Sep 21, 2007 Petrolinvest has announced its will to co-operate with world fuel giants but refuses to disclose their names. “We are being watched by major oil companies operating in Kazakhstan and Russia,” says Pawel Gricuk, Petrolinvest head. Among others, Chevron, Shell, Eni, Total and BP are present in the country. Apparently, the Chinese [...]

Published: Sep 21, 2007 Italian energy group ENI, the lead operator in the Kashagan oil field, has called on its partners in the project to work ‘cohesively and quickly’ in resolving a dispute with the Kazakh government over delays and spiralling costs. ENI chief executive Paolo Scaroni has sent a letter to fellow consortium members [...]

Fri Sep 21, 2007 11:45 AM BST NEW YORK, Sept 21 (Reuters) – Royal Dutch Shell will go ahead with a 325,000 barrel-per-day capacity expansion of its Motiva refinery in Port Arthur, Texas, at a cost of $7 billion, the Anglo-Dutch oil group said on Friday. The 285,000 bpd refinery is owned by Motiva Enterprises [...]