Posts on ‘October 9th, 2007’

It’s spectacular but not dangerous to anyone outside the refinery, county says From Staff Reports Article Last Updated: 10/09/2007 11:31:15 AM PDT MARTINEZ – A mechanical shutdown at the big Shell Oil Co. refinery in Martinez caused excessive flaring _ flames shooting out a tall stack this morning, a Contra Costa Office of Emergency Services [...]

Shell Oil Paid Patton Boggs $100,000 to Lobby Federal Government in First Half of 2007 October 09, 2007: 04:33 PM EST NEW YORK (Associated Press) – A U.S. unit of Royal Dutch Shell plc paid Patton Boggs LLP $100,000 to lobby the federal government in the first half of 2007, according to a recent disclosure [...]

Tuesday, October 09, 2007; Posted: 04:45 AM   BEIJING, Oct 09, 2007 (SinoCast via COMTEX) — RDS/A | charts | news | PowerRating — The world’s top-ranking oil supplier Royal Dutch Shell PLC so far has invested as much as USD 4 billion in China during the past two decades based on its belief of [...]

SHELL TO SEA TO PROTEST IN DUBLIN at Department of Natural Resources on Friday 12th on October at Lunchtime (12.45-2PM)   To coincide with the protest at the Shell refinery site in Bellanaboy County Mayo on Friday morning, there will be a lunchtime protest in Dublin at the Department of Natural Resources, Adelaide Road (Leeson [...]

EXTRACT: In the energy sector, three major European energy companies which have signed memorandums of understanding with Tehran – Total of France, Repsol of Spain and the Anglo-Dutch group Royal Dutch Shell – have repeatedly delayed final decisions on billion-dollar investments in the South Pars gas field. THE ARTICLE LONDON, October 9 (IranMania) – While [...]

By Toby Shute October 9, 2007 If ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM) is a 10, OAO Gazprom (OTC BB: OGZPY) weighs in on the freaking huge scale at about an 8. The Russian giant supplies about one-third of Western Europe’s natural gas imports. It also accounts for roughly one-fifth of global production. With more than 400,000 employees [...]

Tue Oct 9, 2007 2:01 PM BST By Jackie Cowhig LONDON, Oct 9 (Reuters) – Royal Dutch Shell’s technology to turn coal into gas to fuel power plants could allow developing countries to meet surging energy demand without a matching rise in emissions, Shell executives said on Tuesday. Power plants fuelled by gas made from [...]

October 09, 2007: 05:46 AM EST MANILA -(Dow Jones)- Pilipinas Shell Petroleum Corp., a unit of Royal Dutch Shell Group (RDSA), may finally push through with a long-delayed initial public offering of its shares next year, an official said Tuesday. “There’s a good possibility for an IPO next year,” Shell Philippines Country Chairman Edgar Chua [...]

Tue Oct 9, 2007 11:30am BST By Jonathan Leff SINGAPORE, Oct 9 (Reuters) – Royal Dutch Shell’s (RDSa.L: Quote, Profile, Research) high-profile buying spree of Asia’s benchmark crudes last month is the clearest signal yet that the major has rediscovered its appetite for trading risk after a five-year hiatus. Shell hoovered up over 10 million [...]

By Catherine Belton in Moscow Updated: 2:11 a.m. ET Oct. 9, 2007 Sakhalin Energy will announce on Tuesday that an independent consultant hired by a group of international banks has given it a clean bill of health on ecological standards as it seeks to raise up to $6bn in loans for the vast oil and [...]

By Norma Cohen Published: October 9 2007 03:00 | Last updated: October 9 2007 03:00 When Shell UK, part of the Royal Dutch Shell oil group, said its pension scheme was so well-funded no contribution would be needed this year, it sent a frisson of excitement through the City. The comeback of the contributions holiday [...]

  Published: October 8 2007 17:56 | Last updated: October 8 2007 17:56 The revelation of the FT’s 2007 power list continues with new entries from Shell Gas and Power, NYSE Euronext and Coca Cola. 16. Linda Cook Rank in 2006: New entry Position: Executive Director, Shell Gas and Power Age: 49 Cook won a [...]

By Paul Betts Published: October 9 2007 03:00 | Last updated: October 9 2007 03:00 Fate can play funny tricks. Who would have thought of Paolo Scaroni, the former Pilkington boss now running Italy’s Eni oil group, locking horns again with Sir Richard “Dick” Evans, the former head of BAE Systems – and in Kazakhstan [...]

By Isabel Gorst in Tbilisi and Guy Dinmore in Rome Published: October 9 2007 03:00 | Last updated: October 9 2007 03:00 Kazakhstan’s dispute with an Italian-led consortium over delays and cost overruns in developing the Kashagan oilfield can be resolved without rewriting the contract, President Nursultan Nazarbayev told Italy’s visiting prime minister yesterday. Romano [...]

By MATT CHAMBERS October 9, 2007; Page C9 NEW YORK — Crude oil futures slumped below $80 a barrel, a four-week low, as the dollar strengthened and as storm threats to U.S. Gulf of Mexico energy production diminished. Signs that Royal Dutch Shell’s Nigerian oil production is set to increase also weighed on prices in [...]