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March 12th, 2008:

BBC News: Shell fined for plant’s gas leak (*Bill Campbell’s concerns about Shell’s TFA safety culture well founded)

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Shell says it has spent £5.5m on improvements

Wednesday, 12 March 2008, 18:38 GMT 

Oil company Shell has been fined £266,681 after it admitted blame for an accident in which 20 tonnes of explosive gas released into the air.

Isobutane (LPG) was mixed with toxic hydrogen fluoride (HF) when it escaped from a corroded pipe at the Stanlow plant in Ellesmere Port.

Shell admitted failing to comply with Control of Major Accident Hazard Regulations in the 2003 incident.

The Health and Safety Executive said the leak was a “major incident”. read more

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THE WALL STREET JOURNAL: Crude clears $110 for first time despite report of rising supplies

ASSOCIATED PRESS
March 13, 2008

NEW YORK — Crude oil surpassed $110 for the first time as it gained for the third straight day.

Investors shrugged off a U.S. Energy Department report that crude-oil and gasoline supplies jumped last week.

Light, sweet crude for April delivery rose $1.17 to settle at $109.92 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange after earlier rising to a new trading record of $110.20.

The dollar weakened throughout the day yesterday, setting a number of new low marks against the euro and attracting new buyers to the oil market. Crude futures offer a hedge against a falling dollar, and oil futures bought and sold in dollars are more attractive to foreign investors when the dollar is weak. Many analysts believe the dollar’s decline is the reason crude futures have surged to new records in 11 of the past 12 sessions, despite the fact that crude supplies have risen 10% since early January. read more

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International Herald Tribune: Judge fines Shell for accident at English petrochemicals plant

The Associated Press
Published: March 12, 2008

LONDON: A British judge ordered Shell to pay hundreds of thousands of pounds after the oil company pleaded guilty to failing to follow safety regulations at one of its plants.

Shell was fined more than 260,000 pounds (US$535,000; €345,000) and ordered to pay 37,000 pounds (US$74,500; €48,000) in costs Wednesday following a 2003 accident in which dangerous gas escaped from a corroded pipe at the Stanlow petrochemical plant in Ellesmere Port, about 200 miles (320 kilometers) northwest of London. read more

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earthtimes.org: Shell and ConocoPhillips Honored as Refining & Energy Companies of the Year

Posted : Wed, 12 Mar 2008 17:38:33 GMT
Author : HART Energy Publishing, LLP 
Category : PressRelease 
 
SAN DIEGO, March 12 /PRNewswire/ — The 21st annual presentation of HART Energy Publishing’s Refining & Energy Company of the Year Awards will take place Wednesday, March 12, 2008 at the Manchester Grand Hyatt in San Diego. The annual awards are part of HART’s Global Conference “Biofuels Integration: The Next Refining Challenge”. This year’s recipients are Shell Oil Company, the International Honoree, and ConocoPhillips, the North American Honoree. read more

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Houston Chronicle: Shell Fined for UK Refinery Accident

© 2008 The Associated Press
March 12, 2008, 3:08PM

LONDON — A British judge ordered Shell to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars after the oil company pleaded guilty to failing to follow safety regulations at one of its plants.

Shell was fined more than $535,000 and ordered to pay $74,500 in costs Wednesday for a 2003 accident in which dangerous gas escaped from a corroded pipe at the Stanlow petrochemical plant in Ellesmere Port, about 200 miles northwest of London.

The company pleaded guilty last month to failing to comply with accident hazard regulations. The judge, Roger Dutton, said the fine was lower than it would have been had Shell been found guilty after taking the case to trial. read more

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Bloomberg: North Sea Forties Oil Rises Near a Record; BP Sells Vitol Cargo

By Alexander Kwiatkowski

March 12 (Bloomberg) — Forties crude, one of the four North Sea grades that determine the pricing benchmark for two-thirds of the world’s oil, rose to near a record as gasoil demand increased oil consumption. Vitol Group bought a cargo from BP Plc.

Forties’ premium to Dated Brent was at $1.75 a barrel today, compared with $1.40 yesterday, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Forties reached a record premium of $2 over Dated Brent in August 2004.

North Sea crude oil has strengthened as record gasoil prices in Europe increase the profitability of refining and encourage fuel producers to buy more oil. The difference between gasoil and crude futures contracts was at $23.13 a barrel in London today, about 62 percent higher than the year-to-date average. read more

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Bloomberg: Total’s LNG Output to Rise to 14 Million Tons by 2010 (Update2)

By Dinakar Sethuraman

March 12 (Bloomberg) — Total SA, Europe’s third-largest oil company, will produce 14 million metric tons of liquefied natural gas a year by 2010, said Jean-Marc Hosanski, senior vice president of the company’s LNG unit.

The Paris-based company’s output in 2007 was 9.1 million tons, Hosanski said today at the Gastech conference in Bangkok.

Total may decide on final investments for some LNG projects by this year. A decision on adding a seventh production line in Nigeria will be made “as soon as possible” and the company “hopes” to start its Iran Pars LNG project this year, he said. read more

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Ellesmere Port Pioneer: Shell UK fined £266,000 *($531,000 USD approx) after toxic gas leak

12:15, Mar 12 2008 
By Chris Smith, Ellesmere Port Pioneer

 
AN OIL refinery has been fined £266,681 after highly-flammable and toxic gas escaped through a corroded pipe at the Ellesmere Port plant.

Shell UK had a “narrow escape” after 20 tonnes of isobutane, mixed with 150 kg of hydrogen fluoride, escaped into the atmosphere from the HF Alkylation plant at their Stanlow Manufacturing Complex.

The gas dispersed without exploding, and no-one was hurt as a result.

But the Health and Safety Executive says that if the gas had escaped from a different part of the same pipe, it could have ignited. read more

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Former Shell Exec Paddy Briggs responds on Pearl GTL

UpstreamOnline: Pearl GTL set for big payback

Paddy what do you say to this … great investment … have you put your money into RDS shares now?

Goblok

RESPONSE 

I have never, ever said anything against Pearl or any other GTL project. Why would I – they are excellent as this article suggests. What I am against is mendacious corporate advertising !


Paddy Briggs

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Advance notice of the Royal Dutch Shell plc 2008 Strategy Presentation

11 Mar 2008 – On Monday, 17 March 2008 Royal Dutch Shell plc will give an update on RDS Group Strategy. All related materials will be posted on www.shell.com/investor on 17 March 2008. Two live video webcasts will be hosted: a Media video webcast and an Investor video webcast.

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Another warning to inventors of the alleged dangers when dealing with Shell

Screen Shot 2015-04-27 at 10.39.41EXTRACTS FROM AN ARTICLE ENTITLED:

Boral and Shell

We discovered in 2004 that Shell international Research Maatschappij B.V had lodged an international application in 2002 under the international patent cooperation treaty titled “Pigmentable Binder Composition”, Incredibly, the Shell pigmentable binder patent resembles our pigmentable surrogate hydrocarbon bitumen formulation to the letter.

Boral Asphalt was the only “organization” that had access to our GEO320 MRH Asphalt bitumen(surrogate hydrocarbon bitumen formulation) material between year 2000 and to the time when Shell lodged their pigmentable binder patent application in 2002 and Kraton polymers research in 2004. read more

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newsday.com: Williams says Spitzer scandal could affect Broadwater project

March 11, 2008
Associated Press

HARTFORD, Conn. – Given the sex scandal surrounding New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer, Senate President Donald Williams wants Connecticut to reach out to his lieutenant governor and persuade him to oppose Broadwater.

Williams said Connecticut should be prepared for Spitzer’s possible resignation because his administration is expected to make a decision soon on state permits for the proposed liquefied natural gas terminal in Long Island Sound.

“Assuming there is a transition at some point in the near future, the new governor will have hundreds of issues on his desk and he’ll be required to get up to speed quickly,” Williams said. “We can’t afford to drop the ball on Broadwater.” read more

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The St. Petersburg Times: Fuel Costs Increase As Russia Curbs Export

Bloomberg

SINGAPORE — Russia is forcing Exxon Mobil Corp. to abandon plans to export natural gas to China. Nigeria is requiring explorers to share output with its citizens. Indonesia will cut sales to Japan.

Countries holding almost half the world’s gas are curbing shipments to meet growing domestic use, hurting importers from the U.S. to Japan. Prices for the heating fuel may rise 50 percent within five years on the New York Mercantile Exchange as a result, said Chris Jarvis, president of Caprock Risk Management in Hampton Falls, New Hampshire. He anticipated the rally in gas prices during the past month. read more

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UpstreamOnline: Congress goes after Big Five

By Upstream staff

A US congressional committee today asked the leaders of the world’s five biggest publicly traded oil companies to testify at a hearing in early April on why the companies still need federal tax breaks while earning huge profits off record oil prices.

The House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming sent letters on the 1 April hearing to supermajors ExxonMobil, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, and the US units of UK-based BP and Anglo-Dutch giant Shell.

“The American people deserve answers from Big Oil,” said Democratic Representative Edward Markey of Massachusetts, who chairs the House committee. read more

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UpstreamOnline: Petrobras signs LNG deal with Shell

By Upstream staff

Brazil’s federally-controlled Petrobras said today that it signed an agreement with Shell for liquefied natural gas supplies for two regasification sites in the South American nation.

Petrobras said the supplies would be used for two LNG regasification terminals that will be installed off of Rio de Janeiro and the northeastern Ceara state.

Reuters said that the agreement does not specify volumes or price, but that it is similar to deals signed earlier with a range of other companies, including Suez Global LNG. read more

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THE WALL STREET JOURNAL: Oil hits $108.75 as investors jump on bandwagon

By GREGORY MEYER
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL EUROPE
March 12, 2008

NEW YORK — Crude-oil futures shot to another record high yesterday, as new buyers looked past mixed projections on petroleum demand to participate in the upward momentum of the past few weeks.

Light, sweet crude for April delivery settled 85 cents, or 0.8%, higher at $108.75 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange, after jumping to a record intraday high of $109.72 a barrel overnight.

Nymex futures traded in a range of more than $3 throughout the session, as the factors that have fueled crude’s ascent this year were inconclusive yesterday. The dollar’s weakness has fueled much of oil’s recent run-up, as investment funds seek a hedge in hard assets. But yesterday the dollar strengthened after the Federal Reserve announced measures to add liquidity to financial markets in an attempt to soften the credit crunch. read more

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