A view of a Shell oil both at the 11th international oil, gas and petrochemical exhibition in Tehran April 20, 2006. Credit: Reuters/Raheb Homavandi (Reuters) – Royal Dutch Shell and other oil companies are taking less Iranian crude because of poor economics and the difficulty of making financial transactions with Tehran, industry sources said on Thursday. [...]
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Arctic Drilling Proposal Advanced Amid Concern
Damon Winter/The New York Times BP’s Endicott oil and gas facility at the edge of the Beaufort Sea. Shell Oil wants to drill dozens of miles offshore in federal waters. THE NEW YORK TIMES A version of this article appeared in print on May 20, 2010, on page A18 of the New York edition By WILLIAM [...]
Shell’s treachery in Iran
AN EMAIL TO BILL O’REILLY AT FOX NEWS Hello Bill In March 2007, I sent you an email on the subject of Shell?s treachery in Iran. Two years later, as a result of Shell internal documents obtained from the oil giant under UK freedom of information laws, I discovered that my email to you had sent [...]
Oil Trade With Iran Thrives, Discreetly
“One tanker industry executive speculated that Shell might want to disguise its Iranian purchases so as not to suggest that the gasoline it sells in the U.S. is refined from Iranian oil, which would violate U.S. law.” THE WALL STREET JOURNAL By STEVE STECKLOW, SPENCER SWARTZ and MARGARET COKER FUJAIRAH, United Arab Emirates?An oil tanker named Front Page, [...]
Shell Hoax Puts Spotlight on Big Oil’s Mess in Nigeria
George Osodi, File / AP People evacuate their homes by boat, as they pass smoke and flames billowing from a burning oil pipeline belonging to the Shell Petroleum Development Company, across the Opobo Channel in Asagba Okwan Asarama, about 31 miles southwest of Port Harcourt, Nigeria, in 2005. (May 19) — If it seemed too [...]
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