LONDON (Reuters) - Consolidation is needed in the global oil refining sector, the chief economist of BP Plc said on Monday, indicating more tough decisions ahead for an industry beset by poor margins.
February 15th, 2010:
Global Oil Refining Sector Needs Consolidation: BP
Shell may spin off North Sea assets
upstreamonline.com
Anglo-Dutch supermajor Shell could sell more than $10 billion of assets including its North Sea oilfields operations, sources close to the company are reported to have said.
Upstream staff 15 February 2010 01:30 GMT
While most of the cuts are expected to come from the companys downstream operations, which were hit hard during the global economic crisis, Shell is also is looking at a $5 billion disposal program for onshore fields in Nigeria, Londons Sunday Times newspaper reported, citing unnamed sources.
Todd alleges Shell, OMV colluded
Multinational Shell "colluded" with Austrian oil company OMV by restricting the gas and oil they allowed to be produced from the Pohokura gas field in competition with gas from the Maui field, in which Shell holds a major stake, the Todd family claimed on Monday.
Shells Data Breach: A Security Spill?
Written by Emmanuel Carabott on February 15, 2010 4:35 pm
This week the BBC reported that someone has disclosed contact details for 170,000 of Shells employees world wide. The disclosure comes with a note claiming it is being disclosed by former employees who cant stand the damage the company is doing to the environment. Shell has in turn downplayed the event claiming that the information disclosed does not pose a security risk to its employees since it does not include employees addresses.
Shell hit by massive data breach
A spokesperson for the ICO said: Shell has notified us of a security breach regarding a significant amount of peoples personal details. We are looking into how this data breach occurred and will decide what, if any regulatory action, is required. Shell if it is found guilty may escape lightly. Fines levied by the ICO for failing to protect against the loss of personal data tend to be under £5,000.
Activists blamed for Shell data leak could work in Aberdeen
Evening Express: Group claims responsibility for inside job at oil giant
PROBE: Oil firm Shell said an investigation would be launched into the data leak.
DAMAGING: Undercover activists could be working at Shells Aberdeen base in Altens.
By Jennifer McKiernan
Published: 15/02/2010
A DATA leak endangering oil workers was committed by undercover environmental activists, it has been claimed.
The Evening Express told how a database containing more than 100,000 personal details about Shell employees and contractors was leaked from the oil firm.
A 116-strong group claiming to be full-time Shell employees some of whom could be working in Aberdeen have claimed responsibility for the data leak.
And the group claims the Shell database leak was an organised inside job to highlight alleged human rights abuses in oil-rich Nigeria.
Shell Employees Attack its Repugnant Behaviour in Nigeria
finally the internal tension of Shells Nigerian problem has, it seems, gone public
Published by Andy Rowell February 15th, 2010
Having written about Shell in Nigeria for over fifteen years, we have known that there was huge internal disquiet about the companys operations in the country.
In the aftermath of the murder of Nigerian writer Ken Saro-Wiwa in 1995, Shell was pilloried in the international press for being complicit in his death and for being an integral part of the vortex of violence tearing the Niger Delta apart.
Shell hit by massive data breach
The Register
Posted in IT Director, 15th February 2010 09:20 GMT
By John Oates
Shell has been hit by a massive data breach – the contact database for 176,000 staff and contractors at the firm has been copied and forwarded to lobbyists and activists opposed to the company.
John Donovan, an activist who received the database, said he had voluntarily destroyed the files. But he warned that other copies were available online.
The email supposedly comes from 176 “concerned staff” to highlight Shell’s activities in Nigeria. The database is about six months old and could have been released by a recently-laid off staff member, or there could really be a rogue campaign group within Shell.Richard Wiseman, chief ethics and compliance officer at Royal Dutch Shell, wrote to staff last week after the breach emerged.
Oil groups mount legal challenge to Schwarzenegger’s tar sands ban
A lobby group that includes BP and Shell in its membership has launched a legal challenge against low-carbon legislation in California that in effect rules out the use of oil from Canadian tar sands. The action by the National Petrochemical & Refiners Association (NPRA) comes amid growing political, investor and consumer pressure on US oil companies not to participate in the carbon-intensive tar sands of Alberta.