September 23rd, 2007:

Published: September 23 2007 19:27 | Last updated: September 23 2007 19:27

As much as Paolo Scaroni tries to keep investors focused on Eni’s opportunities elsewhere, talk keeps coming back to Kashagan, the giant oil field in Kazakhstan. The chief executive of Italy’s big oil company is battling to persuade the Kazakh government that delays and cost overruns at the Eni-led project need not lead to a radical rewriting of terms or, worse, the end of the road for Eni’s involvement. He has until October 22 to reach a friendly agreement or the gloves come off. read more

www.chinaview.cn  2007-09-23 17:04:29    
 
    By Xinhua writers Huang Xin and Lu Xiaoyu

    TAIYUAN, Sept. 23 (Xinhua) — Foreign companies that own clean coal technologies and work with their Chinese counterparts to tap China’s coal reserves, one of the world’s largest, may get good returns as China is seeking to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions and ease its increasing thirst for oil.

    “In the coming five years, China will make major advances in rational utilization of coal. Foreign companies willing to invest in China would gain big profits with a small capital,” says Chinese Commerce Minister Bo Xilai. read more

By DONNABELLE L. GATDULA

The Royal Dutch Shell Group will push through with the commercial operation of compressed natural gas (CNG) mother-daughter station in Laguna within this month,  Energy Secretary Angelo Reyes said.

He said no less than the Shell group’s chief executive Jeroen van der Veer made the commitment on the CNG project.

“I have talked with Shell country chairman Edgar Chua and he said we will have the daughter station in Biñan, Laguna by the end of this month.  The CEO of the Royal Shell group reiterated the same commitment,” Reyes said. read more

By Carol Wolman     Page 1 of 1 page(s)
http://www.opednews.com

Now that Greenspan has acknowledged that the invasion and occupation of Iraq is about securing Iraqi oil reserves, we can look a little more realistically at the whole situation. We always knew it, of course.

One reason, perhaps the main reason, that the American people have put up with the illegal military operation in Iraq is that we are dependent on automobiles, and the fear of running out of oil has been drummed into us.

Although it hasn’t been stated, many Americans assume that if “we” control Iraqi oil, the price of gasoline will remain within reasonable limits. Of course, if the US military, who are paid with the tax dollars of We the People, can secure Iraqi oil, we the consumers get the benefits. RIGHT? read more

Elitists use oil scam, market turmoil, threat of Iran war to hike profits, torpedo middle class
Paul Joseph Watson

Prison Planet: Monday, September 17, 2007

‘The global elite are conspiring to send oil prices crashing through the $200 dollar a barrel mark as part of an organized agenda to hike profits, bring about a global economic crash and torpedo the middle class, and theyre not afraid to attack Iran as a means of achieving their goal.’;

The global elite are conspiring to send oil prices crashing through the $200 dollar a barrel mark as part of an organized agenda to hike profits, bring about a global economic crash and torpedo the middle class, and they’re not afraid to attack Iran as a means of achieving their goal. read more

Print Date : Sunday, September 23, 2007

TEHRAN (PIN) – Exploration manager of National Iranian Oil Co. (NIOC) Saturday said the country had explored 72 billion barrels of in situ crude oil and 168 trillion cubic feet of gas in place between 1997 and 2006.

Seyyed Mahmud Mohaddes told reporters the huge volume of energy carriers was explored as 16 oilfields and 14 gas fields were spotted.

“Of the explored reserve, totally 15 billion barrels of liquid hydrocarbon, including 12 billion barrels of crude oil, and 1.3 billion barrels of gas condensates, is extractable,” said the official. read more

Advocate staff photo by TRAVIS SPRADLING
Frontier Drilling employee Jeremiah Larkin, wearing an orange survival suit, emerges from a submersible helicopter simulator at the Shell Robert Training and Conference Center, located east of Hammond. Mark Michaud, a diver with Montrose Safety Training, helps supervise the exercise for industry workers in an enclosed pool setting at the 20-acre training campus, where 30,000 people a year obtain oil and gas industry instruction. In this exercise, trainees were to stay in the simulator seven seconds after it submerged. Said Larkins, a Bastrop resident, ‘It was a long seven seconds.’ read more

Advocate staff photos by TRAVIS SPRADLING
Professionals in Shell’s Health Safety Environment Network in the company’s Americas region meet at the Shell Robert Training and Conference Center. Instruction ranges from underwater rescue operations to drilling rig skills, crane operations and professional management improvement. For a fee, any company or organization can use the 20-acre facility for training.

By GARY PERILLOUX
Advocate business writer
Published: Sep 23, 2007

One Shell business strategy that emerged from Hurricane Katrina is the Center for Petroleum Workforce Training, a partnership with LSU in which Shell delivers technical training in Robert and LSU continuing education instructors deliver management and “soft skills” training, communications and leadership training that translate well to any enterprise. read more