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April 6th, 2008:

Shell’s Prelude gas field off north-west Australia could be world’s first floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) production and storage vessel

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upstreamonline.com: Floating LNG on menu at Prelude

By Russell Searancke

Shell’s Prelude gas field off north-west Australia could be the location of the world’s first floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) production and storage vessel, said Shell’s executive director of gas and power Linda Cook.

Cook told the APPEA conference in Perth, Australia, that FLNG had the potential to develop stranded gas fields at lower development costs.

“It’s still early days (on Prelude) but we’re excited about its potential for Australia,” said Cook. read more

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A $7 Billion Expansion Updates Texas Refinery: Aramco, Shell to Double Size Of Historic Plant

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The expansion will require driving 50,000 concrete piles into the swampy soil.

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL: A $7 Billion Expansion Updates Texas Refinery

Aramco, Shell to Double Size
Of Historic Plant,
Modify It To Handle
‘Nastiest Crudes’
By NEIL KING JR.
April 7, 2008; Page B1

PORT ARTHUR, Texas — Oil companies are traveling farther and drilling deeper to find that next barrel of crude. But the oil they’re unearthing is increasingly gooey, acidic or laced with sulfur.

That’s why two of the world’s largest oil companies — state-controlled Saudi Arabian Oil Co., known as Saudi Aramco, and Royal Dutch Shell PLC — have begun plowing an expected $7 billion into the most ambitious U.S. refinery project in more than 30 years.
 
Doubling the size of the storied Motiva refinery, whose roots go back to the days of the famous Spindletop gusher of 1901, will turn the sprawling plant here on the Gulf Coast into the largest crude refiner in the U.S. But the bigger plan is to make the Port Arthur facility the best equipped in the country to digest the world’s most challenging oil — the stickier, high-sulfur stuff that sells at a discount to the light, sweet crude that first put Texas on the map. read more

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Shell Oil leasing half the Energia Costa Azul terminal in Baja, Mexico for 20 years…

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THE WALL STREET JOURNAL: Sempra’s Flow to Natural Gas Proves Timely

Investment in LNG
Comes as Utilities
Begin to Shun Coal
By REBECCA SMITH
April 7, 2008; Page B5

As utilities abandon plans to build coal-fired power plants, a big bet Sempra Energy has made on natural gas is turning out to be timely.
 
Sempra has been pouring money into natural-gas infrastructure. The big San Diego energy company is spending $2 billion on construction of the first liquefied-natural-gas receipt terminal on the West Coast and another in Louisiana. It has budgeted $1.2 billion for a 25% stake in a new gas pipeline — the Rockies Express — stretching from Colorado to Ohio, and $200 million for more gas storage in Louisiana. read more

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JEROEN VAN DER VEER Chief executive, Royal Dutch Shell reached the top job in 2004 without a business degree to his name

Financial Times: Moot but advantageous

By Della Bradshaw
Published: April 7 2008 03:00 | Last updated: April 7 2008 03:00

It was on April 8 1908 that 33 aspiring managers gathered in Boston, Massachusetts, to begin a new type of degree, a masters in business administration. Eight – all men – finished the two-year course and became the Harvard MBA class of 1910. The other 25 may have lived to regret that they failed to join one of the business world’s most exclusive clubs.

The Harvard MBA has gone on to become one of the most coveted business qualifications in the world. It is the calling card for those who want to join the boards of corporate America – and the most prized qualification for Indian bachelors seeking a suitable bride. read more

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Climate target is guaranteed catastrophe: ‘the target we have all been aiming for is a disaster – a guaranteed disaster’

The Guardian: Climate target is guaranteed catastrophe

Nasa scientist warns the world must urgently make huge CO2 reductions

Ed Pilkington in New York
Monday April 7 2008

One of the world’s leading climate scientists warns today that the EU and its international partners must urgently rethink targets for cutting carbon dioxide in the atmosphere because of fears they have grossly underestimated the scale of the problem.

In a startling reappraisal of the threat, James Hansen, head of the Nasa Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York, calls for a sharp reduction in C02 limits. read more

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Green cars set for a bright future

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All charged up: the electric Tesla Roadster, on sale in
California, does 135mph with a range of 225 miles

Daily Telegraph: Green cars set for a bright future

By Russell Hotten
Monday 07/04/2008

Fuel cells, hybrids, biodiesel, electricity, even compressed air: no one wants to talk about petrol any more. The motor industry has predicted many times before that a new age of engine technology is upon us. But this time, it seems, they really mean it.
 
2008 is likely to go down as the year when even the most die-hard petrol-head realised that there will be no U-turn in the drive to abolish gas-guzzlers and develop more fuel-efficient cars. read more

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E.On developing one of the world’s largest offshore wind turbine sites with Shell

Daily Telegraph: Spain’s gain from wind power is plain to see

By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard in Oviedo, northern Spain
Last Updated: 11:58pm BST 06/04/2008

Windmills pay. On a breezy Saturday at the end of March, Aeolian Parks scattered across the hill-top ridges and off-shore sandbanks of Spain produced 40.8pc of the country’s electricity needs – 9,862 megawatts to be precise.

The much-derided turbines produced enough wattage to power the great cities of Madrid, Barcelona, Seville, Valencia, Toledo, Cordoba, Granada, Santander, Bilbao, and Zaragoza combined. The workday record on a Tuesday, March 5, was 28pc. read more

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Article by former Royal Dutch Shell exec Paddy Briggs: Shell’s Brand shame

Shell Station in New Zealand

Shell’s Brand shame
By Paddy Briggs

Take a good look at the photograph. What do you see? It’s a Shell petrol station, of course, and easily recognisable as such but when do you think that the photo was taken? If you said sometime in the 1970s or 1980s you would be logically correct. The visual style of the site is certainly that of an era some twenty or so years ago. Indeed professionals in the area of petrol station design, Shell brand management specialists and quite a few customers as well will recognise an identity from the past – one that was superseded by a new more modern identity more than a decade ago. But this is not an archive photograph – I took it a few days ago (April 2008) in New Zealand as I was driving to Auckland on the main East Coast road in a small town called Paeroa. Now you may think that it is a bit peculiar, even rather tragic, for an ex Shell executive, retired nearly six years, to want to photo petrol stations whilst on holiday in New Zealand. Let me explain. read more

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The Real Solution to the Energy Problem

SeekingAlpha: The Real Solution to the Energy Problem

Jerry Pham: Bio & more articles

We have now spent over $1 trillion to get oil from the Middle East. We spend billions of dollars to maintain military bases in Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Kuwait. We’ve stirred up a hornet’s nest in order to keep crude flowing out of the Middle East. Say what you will, but everyone knows that the only reason we are in the Middle East is because of the oil. We didn’t get involved in Rwanda or Myanmar or Sudan because they didn’t have massive reserves of oil. read more

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Energy economy booming in Houston

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: Energy economy booming in Houston

By The Associated Press
Sunday, April 6, 2008

HOUSTON — Filling up in the nation’s energy capital is as painful as anywhere these days. Twenty bucks barely makes a dent on the gauge when gasoline prices are $3.25 a gallon and edging higher.

But after filling up in Houston, you’re not likely to drive far before seeing an active construction site. Check the local classified ads and it’s hard to miss the pages of job openings, particularly in the oil field. read more

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Niinisto tops Finnish president poll: Royal Dutch Shell Chairman Jorma Ollila comes third

NewsRoom Finland: Niinistö tops Finnish president poll

4.4.2008 at 15:15

Sauli Niinistö (cons), speaker of Finland’s Parliament and run-off presidential election candidate in 2006, comfortably took first place in a poll where Taloustutkimus asked the public’s opinion on a number of potential 2012 election candidates.

Weekly Suomen Kuvalehti published the findings in its Friday issue.

Some 35 per cent of the respondents said Mr Niinistö was very suitable for the office of president, with five per cent saying he was very unsuitable. read more

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