Sept. 7 (Bloomberg) -- Royal Dutch Shell Plc, Europe's largest oil company, delayed deploying most staff back to offshore platforms in the Gulf of Mexico because of an approaching hurricane.
September 7th, 2008:
Shell Keeps Staff Onshore for Ike as Refinery Repairs Continue
Iraqi Cabinet approves initial gas deal with Shell
BAGHDAD: Iraq's Cabinet approved an initial gas agreement Sunday between the Oil Ministry and Royal Dutch Shell to invest in a joint venture to tap natural gas in southern Iraq, a government statement said.
Iraq approves preliminary gas deal with Shell
BAGHDAD, Sept 7 (Reuters) - The Iraqi cabinet has approved a preliminary natural gas deal between Royal Dutch Shell and the state-run South Oil Company, the government spokesman said on Sunday.
New reporting rules will boost oilpatch’s reserves: may lead to takeovers
The world's second-largest non-government-controlled oil company by market value, Royal Dutch Shell, is likely to benefit most among the oil majors, analysts said. The company invested heavily in squeezing crude from bitumen-soaked soil in Alberta, and in extracting gas locked in coal beds in Australia and China, as it sought to rebuild its asset base after a reserves overbooking scandal in 2004.
Shut up, Borat – the tinderbox of Kazakhstan oil
However, Campbell Keir, Shell's chairman in Kazakhstan, tells an old joke that illustrates just how dominated the country is by Russia and China: "When a Kazakh wakes up, he opens his eye to the west to see if the bear is growling. If it isn't, the Kazakh turns his head to the east to see if the dragon is breathing fire. If it isn't either, the Kazakh gets out of bed."
Shell stops returning workers to Gulf due to Ike
HOUSTON (Reuters) - Shell Oil Co said it stopped returning workers to offshore platforms in the Gulf of Mexico on Saturday due to Hurricane Ike's threat to pass through oil and natural gas production areas next week.
First Shell, now BP caves in to Russians
...Robert Dudley, the BP-appointed chief executive of the company, was forced to flee Russia to a secret location in central Europe after what BP called an orchestrated campaign of harassment...