Posts on ‘January 20th, 2008’

By Peggy Hollinger in Paris Published: January 20 2008 19:02 | Last updated: January 20 2008 19:02 Europe�s plans to cut greenhouse gas emissions, due to be unveiled as part of a radical green agenda this week, risk working against the environment and could destroy the competitive position of European industry, according to the region�s [...]

In a letter sent to George Clooney the rebels warned of an ‘imminent battle’ brewing in the Niger Delta By Mike Pflanz, West Africa Correspondent Last Updated: 9:43pm GMT 20/01/2008 Rebels in the Niger Delta yesterday called on the actor, George Clooney, to visit the region in his new capacity as UN messenger of peace. [...]

� Former Royal Dutch Shell Brand Executive, Paddy Briggs, comments on the recent New York Times article reporting that Shell CEO Jeroen van der Veer “lifted the veil on Shell�s latest long-term energy scenarios, titled Scramble and Blueprints, which he will make public next week at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.” The New [...]

20 January 2004� A GROUP of City investors has lined up a meeting with Shell’s senior independent director Lord Oxburgh to air grievances following the oil giant’s shock downgrade of reserves.� Oxburgh, 69, an expert geologist and former rector of Imperial College, should have no difficulty dealing with the technical issues.� Explaining away the tremors [...]

Terry Macalister Tuesday January 20, 2004 Cairn Energy has made a massive find in India worth up to $500m (�278m) on acreage sold to it 18 months ago by Shell for $7m. The discovery sent the British oil company’s share price soaring 40% to 518p and is another embarrassment for Shell, which has recently been [...]

By Carl Mortished, International Business Editor� January 20, 2004� THE head of Shell suffered another embarrassment yesterday after a small Scottish company found more than half a billion barrels of crude on land bought from the oil giant for just $7.2 million (�4 million).� Shares in Cairn Energy jumped 182�p, or 50 per cent, to [...]

By Joanna Chung in London Jan 20, 2004� Royal Dutch/Shell, under pressure after slashing reserves estimates this month, suffered another blow yesterday when it emerged it sold its stake in an oil field that could be one of the finds of the year. Shell sold its 50 per cent interest in the Rajasthan Basin in [...]

(Bloomberg News Story) Jan. 20, 2004, 12:20AM Royal Dutch/Shell Group Chairman Philip Watts, criticized by shareholders for an unexpected cut in Shell’s proven reserves, defended the decision and assured Shell’s work force there had been no wrongdoing. Shares plunged Jan. 9 after Europe’s second-largest oil company told investors it cut its estimate of proven oil [...]

(Bloomberg News Story) Jan. 20, 2004, 12:32AM Five years ago, Royal Dutch/Shell Group was the world’s largest publicly traded oil company. Today it’s third and sliding. Since 2001, Shell has missed goals it set to boost oil and gas output and failed to build up enough reserves to match the volume pumped from the ground. [...]

Sunday January 20, 2008 6:01 PM By CAIN BURDEAU Associated Press Writer IN THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER DELTA (AP) – Service canals dug to tap oil and natural gas dart everywhere through the black mangrove shrubs, bird rushes and golden marsh. From the air, they look like a Pac-Man maze superimposed on an estuarine landscape 10 [...]

Sun Jan 20, 2008 5:54pm GMT� By Paul Taylor BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Europe’s steel, aluminum and cement industries will have a special, less strict regime for greenhouse gas emissions under European Commission proposals to fight climate change to be announced this week. After weeks of intense lobbying by business and governments, EU sources said on [...]

Pilings are driven into the ground for the $7 billion expansion of the Motiva refinery in Port Arthur, one of the large-scale energy projects pumping life into the Beaumont-Port Arthur area’s economy. STEVE UECKERT PHOTOS: CHRONICLE Houston Chronicle: Beaumont-Port Arthur: Energy helping revive a region By BRETT CLANTON Copyright 2008 Houston Chronicle Jan. 19, 2008, [...]

Sun, January 20, 2008 By GEORGE MATHEWSON, SUN MEDIA����� SARNIA — Residents will learn Tuesday how a proposed multi-billion-dollar oil refinery would affect the area’s people and environment. Shell Canada has completed field studies on air, water and human health for the proposed mega-project near Courtright and will present preliminary findings at a Point Edward [...]