FOR budding entrepreneurs without a credit history, rising capital from the banks can be particularly challenging. But a scheme launched last week by Shell aims to help 16 to 30-year-olds get their businesses off the ground.
January 18th, 2009:
Shell pledges £1,000 if you’ve got a great idea
Gunmen attack ships at Nigeria oil loading platform
The Bonny crude oil loading platform is operated by SPDC, a joint venture between Royal Dutch Shell and the state-run Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), but none of the vessels were believed to be owned by Shell.
500 holiday workers from Shell Oil and Motiva Enterprises active in Houston Food Bank Project
Among them are about 150 volunteers from Hope Worldwide, an international humanitarian organization, and 500 holiday workers from Shell Oil Co. and its Motiva Enterprises subsidiary who will sort and pack groceries at Houston Food Bank, tutor a childrens literacy program and plant dozens of trees.
Saudi Arabia’s rulers threatened to make it easier for terrorists to attack London unless corruption investigations into their arms deals were halted
Prince Bandar, the head of the Saudi national security council, and son of the crown prince, was alleged in court to be the man behind the threats to hold back information about suicide bombers and terrorists. He faces accusations that he himself took more than £1bn in secret payments from the arms company BAE.
Cool, clear water
San Francisco Chronicle
Sunday, January 18, 2009
DEVELOPMENT: Oil shale development grabs more water
WHAT IT MEANS: Royal Dutch Shell has filed a claim on about an eighth of the spring flow in Colorado’s Yampa River. If the claim survives the expected legal challenges, Shell will use that water to extract and process shale oil. But focusing on the Yampa misses a larger point. Shell and other companies, including Chevron and EGL Resources, have been collecting water rights on the Colorado and White rivers for decades in hope of exploiting the shale deposits beneath Wyoming, Utah and Colorado.