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October 16th, 2009:

Shell CEO urges Senate action on climate change

WASHINGTON — Royal Dutch Shell Chairman Jorma Ollila on Thursday urged the U.S. Senate to make clear progress on legislation capping greenhouse gas emissions before international climate change negotiations in December.

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MEND to resume attacks on Nigerian oil

RADIO NEDERLAND

16 October 2009

The Nigerian rebel group the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, MEND, says it will take up arms again and resume attacks on oil production facilities. The group had called a cease-fire in July after Nigerian President Umaru Yar’Adua offered an unconditional amnesty and released one of MEND’s main leaders Henry Okah. The government says 8,000 MEND commanders and soldiers have taken advantage of the amnesty and turned in their weapons.

However MEND has dismissed the amnesty as a “charade” and says that the government purchased many of the weapons it said had been turned in by rebels. read more

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Shell In Talks With Iraq Over Kirkuk Oil Field – Sources

ISTANBUL (Dow Jones)--Royal Dutch Shell PLC (RDSA) is renegotiating with Iraq about the Kirkuk oil field, one of Iraq's largest oil producing areas, after it didn't win access to the field in the country's first licensing auction, held in Baghdad in June, company sources and Iraqi oil officials said Friday

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ArcLight Closes on Acquisition of 50% Interest in Houston Fuel Oil Terminal Company, LLC from Motiva Enterprises, LLC

Reuters

BOSTON, Oct. 16 /PRNewswire/ — ArcLight Capital Partners, LLC (“ArcLight”) has closed on the acquisition of the remaining 50% membership interest in Houston Fuel Oil Terminal Company, LLC (“HFOTCO”) from Motiva Enterprises, LLC.  ArcLight acquired its initial 50% interest in HFOTCO in October 2007 from Chartco, LLC.

HFOTCO is the U.S. Gulf Coast’s largest black oil facility with 11 million barrels of tankage in operation and another 2 million barrels currently under construction. Since 1979 HFOTCO has been storing, blending and moving residual oil for carbon black manufacturers, refineries, bunker suppliers and oil traders. Starting in 1992 HFOTCO began storing and delivering crude oil and feedstock to area refineries. read more

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Email from John Donovan to Shell Ethics Chief Richard Wiseman 16 Oct 09

EMAIL TO RICHARD WISEMAN, CHIEF ETHICS & COMPLIANCE OFFICER, ROYAL DUTCH SHELL PLC

From: John Donovan <[email protected]>
Date: 16 October 2009 20:48:02 BST
To: [email protected]
Subject: Leaflets at Shell Centre

Dear Mr Wiseman

Just to confirm that at 2pm today, I visited Shell Centre and personally established with your security staff the boundary between Shell property and public access property in front of the Shell Centre on York Road. No one from within the building had the courtesy or courage to come outside and deal with me, a long term Shell shareholder. Instead, instructions were given over a two way radio. read more

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Leaked emails, Gale Norton, Corruption and Oil Shale worth billions to Shell

Previously undisclosed internal emails from the Bush Interior Department and Royal Dutch Shell Plc--which held three leases and stood to benefit more from the amendments than any firm--show a concerted if uncoordinated effort to deal with the expected blowback to the amendments. The emails were obtained by the Tribune Washington bureau.

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