ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Jan 7 (Reuters) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday tentatively approved a key air-quality permit that would allow Royal Dutch Shell (RDSa.L) to conduct oil-drilling operations later this year in Alaska's Chukchi Sea.
January 8th, 2010:
Shell has tentative EPA OK for Alaska drill permit
Shell Montreal refinery victim of slow demand
Shell Canada Products Ltd. is closing its Montreal East refinery, making the 76-year-old plant the latest victim of the huge losses piling up among North American refiners.
Shell in bed with Nigerian Militants again?
The Shell Petroleum Development Company on Thursday appointed ex-militant commander, Eris Paul, a.k.a Ogunboss, to secure its pipelines in the once volatile Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa State.
Shell to Convert Montreal East Refinery Into Terminal
Jan. 7 (Bloomberg) -- Royal Dutch Shell Plc said it will convert its Montreal East refinery into an oil-products terminal because the plant no longer fits into the companys long-term strategy.
Endless Oil
Not many people think of the Netherlands as oil country, but a billion-barrel field lies under a nine-mile strip of grazing land along the Dutch-German border. When oil prices cratered in the 1990s, Royal Dutch Shell and ExxonMobil shut the Schoonebeek field down. Company executives reckoned that its thick, hard-to-extract crude wasn't worth the trouble, even though only about 25% of Schoonebeek's oil had been produced. The main evidence of the town's petroleum past was an old-fashioned bobbing oil pump, known as a nodding donkey, which still stands in a parking lot near a bakery. Now higher prices and technological advances are spurring a new joint venture of Shell, Exxon, and the Dutch government to pump Schoonebeek's reserves once more.