Posts on ‘March 28th, 2008’

March 29, 2008 Robin Pagnamenta Most people would shudder at the prospect of being sent to Siberia. Not David Greer. He spent four years on the bleak Russian plains as director of a vast oil and gas project for Shell and, although life was tough, it was not all about hardship. �Sometimes you�d get up [...]

By John Donovan We have printed below our recent email correspondence with Mr Michiel Brandjes, Company Secretary and General Counsel Corporate of Royal Dutch Shell Plc. The subject is explained in the correspondence. John Donovan email to Mr Brandjes on 19 March 2008 From: John Donovan [mailto:john@shellnews.net] Sent: 19 March 2008 15:56 To: ‘michiel.brandjes@ Cc: [...]

Posted on Fri, Mar. 28, 2008 By SCOTT STREATER Star-Telegram Staff Writer The fuel additive ethanol has been blamed lately for ills such as escalating food prices, global warming and the widening dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico. But don’t tell that to General Motors Corp., which is pushing forward with its plan for [...]

Friday, March 28, 2008 (China)� Shell Global Solutions International announced the signing of a licensing contract with PetroChina International Company Ltd and PetroChina Sichuan Petrochemical Company Limited (PSP), which are subsidiaries of China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), for the application of Shell’s Ethylene Oxide/Ethylene Glycol (EO/EG) process in a new petrochemical plant near Chengdu, Sichuan [...]

Gazprom headquarters, Moscow March 28, 2008, 10:33 Gazprom is looking to cash in on booming global LNG demand with its liquefied natural gas production strategy covering up to 2030. LNG is set to be the future of gas transportation system. � Russia`s natural gas giant has announced it has ambitions to become one of the [...]

Sakhalin’s governor confirms LNG delays Sakhalin Island Governor Aleksandr Khoroshavin has confirmed that the start-up of liquefied natural gas deliveries from the Gazprom-led Sakhalin 2 project could be delayed by at least six months, writes Vladimir Afanasiev. Khoroshavin said he expects Sakhalin 2 operator Sakhalin Energy to start first shipments of LNG from the project [...]

Russian environmental watchdog Rosprirodnadzor has tackled Sakhalin Energy over its refusal to pay $17 million in compensation for environmental damage caused during work on the Sakhalin 2 oil and gas project in the country’s far east, writes Vladimir Afanasiev. Rosprirodnadzor submitted the claim to the company in December to make restitution for the destruction of [...]

Malcolm Brinded: Executive Director Shell EP By Gareth Chetwynd A Shell-led consortium has opted for a tension-leg platform solution to develop two heavy oil fields in Brazil’s Santos basin, and regulatory approval for the develoment plan is understood to be close. Shell declared commerciality on the Atlanta and Oliva fields in December 2006 and was [...]

March 28, 2008; Page A12 A senior executive at TNK-BP told us a few months ago that the oil company was “a poster child” for foreign investment in Russia. So it is turning out to be, only not in the way he intended. Blessed by Vladimir Putin at its creation in 2003, BP’s Russian joint [...]

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL: Violence Imperils Iraq’s Oil Progress Attacks in Basra Come Amid Talks With Western Firms By HASSAN HAFIDH in Amman, Jordan, and JOHN D. MCKINNON in Washington March 28, 2008 PAGE ONE� The resurgent violence in Iraq is threatening nascent efforts to enlist foreign companies in developing its immense oil wealth, a [...]

It won’t be easy but we can fix our oil and climate problems at the same time. By Joseph Romm March 28, 2008 For more than a decade, a fierce debate about peak oil has been raging between those who think a peak in global oil production is at hand and those who think the [...]