Posts on ‘October 3rd, 2007’

Marina operator hospitalized after 90-protest against ‘big oil companies’ By Larry Parsons MediaNews Article Launched: 10/03/2007 11:01:46 AM PDT A Marina service station operator, who has mounted a personal battle against high gasoline prices, learned Tuesday from his hospital bed that Shell Oil Co. regained legal control of his station. Mehdi Shahbazi, 65, said he [...]

By DIEGO MENDEZ 10.03.07, 1:56 PM ET Associated Press SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador – The Salvadoran government has accused oil companies Esso Standard Oil and Royal Dutch Shell PLC’s El Salvador subsidiary of price fixing and fined them $852,000 each. The fines were announced late Tuesday in a government statement, and officials warned that there [...]

03 October 2007 By Paddy Briggs The Shell Contributory Pension Fund (SCPF) is a well managed fund and those of us who are Shell pensioners are certainly fortunate to be members of it. But as this FT report confirms… Financial Times: Shell UK halts pension fund contributions …virtually all key decisions of the fund, whilst [...]

By Matthew Newman Oct. 3 (Bloomberg) — European Union regulators fined Repsol YPF SA, Spain’s largest oil producer, and three other oil companies 183.7 million euros ($260 million) for fixing domestic prices for bitumen, used to make asphalt. The European Commission in Brussels fined Repsol 80.5 million euros, Compania Espanola de Petroleos SA 83.9 million [...]

Wednesday, October 03, 2007� 15:05 IST NEW DELHI: Global oil major Royal Dutch Shell will buy Bharat Petroleum Corp Ltd’s (BPCL) 49 per cent stake in lubricant marketing firm Bharat Shell Ltd (BSL) for Rs 145.80 crore. BPCL plans to exit the joint venture company, floated in 1993 to market Shell branded lubricants in India, [...]

DAVID EBNER October 3, 2007 The Woodland Cree First Nation, home to about 1,000 aboriginals located in northwestern Alberta, have filed an application with the Court of Queen’s Bench in Calgary against the Alberta government to block a Royal Dutch Shell PLC oil sands project near their land. The Woodland Cree believe Alberta has not [...]

Last Updated: 03/10/2007� 06:16 Members of the Shell to Sea campaign have� held an all-night candelit vigil at the Corrib gas refinery gates in north Mayo to mark a year since deployment of extra garda� to the area. Shell to Sea spokesman John Monaghan said in a statement yesterday that the vigil from midnight until [...]

By Catherine Belton and Neil Buckley, Financial Times Deteriorating political relations with the west have had little impact on bullish attitudes among corporate investors in Russia – but those not yet in the country are significantly more cautious about the country’s prospects. A survey of 106 foreign companies investing in Russia and 51 “potential” investors [...]

By Steve Connor, Science Editor Published: 03 October 2007 Parts of the Arctic have experienced an unprecedented heatwave this summer, with one research station in the Canadian High Arctic recording temperatures above 20C, about 15C higher than the long-term average. The high temperatures were accompanied by a dramatic melting of Arctic sea ice in September [...]

October 3, 2007 Carl Mortished, International Business Editor Gazprom said yesterday that it would cut supplies of natural gas to Ukraine if a $1.3 billion (�636 million) debt was not settled this month. The warning from Moscow was delivered just as pro-Western parties claimed a lead in closely fought parliamentary elections in Ukraine. The country [...]

October 3, 2007 Josefine van Zanten, the global head of diversity and inclusiveness, believes she’s doing her bit for the planet�s wellbeing By Julie Daniels You could say that Josefine van Zanten has green blood in her veins. Her formative years were spent in Switzerland, a country where recycling was embedded in the culture before [...]

OCTOBER 8, 2007 A group of Midwest utilities is building a plant that will store excess wind power underground The future is taking shape under the windswept corn and soybean fields outside Dallas Center, Iowa. At the Iowa Stored Energy Park, a coalition of local utilities is grappling with one of the thorniest challenges in [...]

By Davidson Iriekpen, 10.03.2007 A Federal High Court in Lagos, yesterday adjourned till October 5, trial in the case brought before it by the Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) Nigeria Ltd, against the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).� Justice Ahmed Ramat Mohammed adjourned the matter for trial,� to enable the counsel to the EFCC, [...]

By Samantha Zee Oct. 2 (Bloomberg) — BP Plc, Europe’s second-largest oil company, plans to flare certain gases later this week and into next at its Carson, California, refinery, according to a state- run Web site. The flaring will begin Oct. 4 and last until Oct. 15, according to the Web site of the South [...]

By Joe Schneider Oct. 2 (Bloomberg) — A native group in Alberta, Canada, sued the provincial government in a bid to block Royal Dutch Shell Plc’s multibillion-dollar expansion of an oil-extraction plant at Carmon Creek. The Woodland Cree First Nation said it filed the complaint today in Alberta Court of Queen’s Bench in Calgary. The [...]