The United Nations Foundation and Royal Dutch Shell Plcs Shell Foundation plan to help organize an effort to raise as much as $100 million over five years to provide clean-burning cooking stoves to the worlds poor, according to a document outlining the plan.
September 20th, 2010:
Shell, UN to Back $100 Million Plan for Clean Energy Cookstoves
A real-time vigil at Shell
Eric Kayne For the Chronicle: Matt Allen, an engineer, works at Shell’s real-time operations center this month in Houston. The center monitors data from wells around the clock.
Shore-based engineers for Shell monitor offshore rigs 24/7 from high-tech centers
By BRETT CLANTON
HOUSTON CHRONICLE
Sept. 18, 2010, 8:18PM
In the months since the Deepwater Horizon accident, Eric van Oort has received inquiries from competitors, investigators and even BP about the network of high-tech centers Shell uses to keep watch over its offshore wells from land.
Shell may gather the same real-time well data other oil companies collect today, but its centers have drawn attention because the company staffs them with engineers who monitor the data around the clock for problems.