Posts on ‘January 7th, 2008’

Mon Jan 7, 2008 11:50pm GMT� (Recasts, updates with Shell comment and lawyer comment) By Erwin Seba HOUSTON, Jan 7 (Reuters) – The Sierra Club, the largest and oldest U.S. environmental organization, filed a federal lawsuit on Monday against Shell Oil Co and subsidiaries over pollution at a refining and chemical plant complex along the [...]

CINDY GEORGE Copyright 2007 Houston Chronicle Jan. 7, 2008, 2:49PM Environmental activists filed a federal lawsuit today against Shell Oil on behalf of citizens, saying state and federal environmental officials have failed to enforce the Clean Air Act at the company’s Deer Park plant. Environment Texas Citizen Lobby and the Sierra Club claim Shell and [...]

Mon Jan 7, 2008 8:24pm GMT� By Erwin Seba HOUSTON (Reuters) – The Sierra Club, the largest and oldest U.S. environmental organization, filed a federal lawsuit on Monday against Shell Oil Co and subsidiaries seeking to stop pollution during malfunctions from its refining and chemical plant complex along the Houston Ship Channel. Shell could face [...]

The Shell boss Jeroen van der Veer says higher oil prices is not all good news for producers By Russell Hotten Last Updated: 4:08pm GMT 07/01/2008 The chief executive of Royal Dutch Shell, Jeroen van der Veer, has warned that higher oil prices are slowing the start of new production projects. Governments, which award operating [...]

7 January 2008 With the price of oil tipping over $100 a barrel for the first time in history shortly after the turn of the year following a controversial ‘vanity trade’ by an overnight dealer, it has emerged that bets are being placed on the price topping $200 a barrel during 2008. Figures from New [...]

Rosalie Marshall and Dave Bailey, IT Week, 07 Jan 2008 � This year will see in a shift in the IT services market as firms turn to direct sourcing from hosted software providers, rather than traditional outsourcing opportunities, according to industry experts. Richard Sykes, chair of the Outsourcing Group at IT trade association Intellect, pointed [...]

By Nick Heath Published: Monday 7 January 2008 Shell is facing the threat of legal action from trade union Amicus over staff redundancy terms, which could hit the oil giant’s plans to outsource up to 3,200 tech jobs. The oil multi-national is in the process of finalising contracts with AT&T, EDS and T-Systems to run [...]

� Former Shell brand Executive, Paddy Briggs I attended the memorial service�on Friday�of David – an old colleague and boss of mine who joined Shell way back in 1952 and who had been retired a couple of decades. He was a wonderful man – individualistic, cantankerous, intelligent, rude, caring, creative, trusting and above all humane. [...]

EXTRACT: Besides relying on federal grants, LSU is working with corporations. For instance, O’Keefe said, Shell Oil Co. has given the university about $4 million for research into coastal restoration, an issue that has achieved paramount importance since Hurricane Katrina swept through.� THE ARTICLE 1/6/2008, 5:17 p.m. CST The Associated Press��� BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) [...]

Jan. 6, 2008, 11:58PM Some rethink expansions as legislation aims to reduce gas use By BRETT CLANTON Copyright 2008 Houston Chronicle Refinery expansion is continuing, but some refiners are putting plans on hold while they review the potential effects of new energy-conservation legislation and other market factors. The status of some big projects: Continuing � [...]

By Winnie Zhu Jan. 7 (Bloomberg) — China National Offshore Oil Corp., the nation’s third-largest oil company, plans to buy small refineries and build storage depots in eastern China’s Shandong province to expand into oil processing. The state oil company has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Shandong provincial government, Liu Junshan, a Beijing-based [...]

By SPENCER SWARTZ January 7, 2008; Page A9 OAO Gazprom and the Nigerian government are in early talks about a deal by which the Russian natural-gas company would help explore and develop the West African nation’s huge gas resources, a senior Nigerian oil official and Gazprom officials said. Gazprom spokesman Sergey Kupriyanov confirmed the company [...]

AMSTERDAM (Thomson Financial) – Royal Dutch Shell chief executive officer Jeroen van der Veer said it is taking longer to gain approval for new oil extraction projects due to higher oil prices, newspaper Het Financieele Dagblad reported. ‘And over a period of time that will have an influence on the tempo in which new projects [...]

Sun Jan 6, 2008 10:09pm EST� Chiyoda Corporation Collaborates with Shell Global Solutions to Offer Integrated Solutions to Local Industries YOKOHAMA, Japan–(Business Wire)–Chiyoda Corporation (TOKYO:6366; ISIN:JP3528600004), (hereinafter “Chiyoda”) has concluded a collaboration agreement with Shell Global Solutions (Japan) K.K. (hereinafter “SGS(J)”) to conduct marketing in the Japanese market on Shell Global Solutions International B.V’s (hereinafter [...]