New Motiva Texas CDU might shut for 12 months-sources HOUSTON, June 19 | Tue Jun 19, 2012 11:48pm IST (Reuters) – A new 325,000 barrel per day crude distillation unit at Motiva Enterprises’ 600,000 bpd Port Arthur, Texas, refinery may be shut for up to 12 months to repair extensive corrosion, sources familiar with refinery [...]
Posts on ‘June 19th, 2012’
World’s Largest Shale Gas Discovery
FROM A REGULAR CONTRIBUTOR John, This is news about the newest shale gas discovery in Canada. Apache just announced this shale gas discovery. It is perhaps the largest shale gas discovery ever. Canadian gas reserves are expanding at a tremendous rate. Canada provides the US with 90% of its imported natural gas. This discovery will [...]
Shell’s corrupt practices in Libya
Shell drafted letter Tony Blair sent to Gaddafi while Prime Minister By John Donovan We have received further confidential information from disgruntled Shell Libya security staff; namely VIP Recruitment Records for Shell Libya. These records shows a system was set up by Shell so that relatives of senior members of the Gaddafi regime, including government [...]
Shell to lift mine from oil pipeline
Oil giant Shell is preparing to remove a World War II mine threatening one of the UK’s most important gas pipelines. Ryan Crighton Aberdeen Press and Journal June 18, 2012 Oil giant Shell is preparing to remove a World War II mine threatening one of the UK’s most important gas pipelines. A subsea bomb squad [...]
The Shell Oil Hoax: Is Your Brand Next?
Beware: Tools to Create a Faux Ad Campaign Are Cheap and Easy to Use (Credit: Daniel Hixon via Shutterstock/Salon) By: Jonathan Salem Baskin Published: June 18, 2012 The viral video clip looked as if it had been shot at a press conference announcing Shell’s plans for new Arctic drilling. So it was particularly ironic when [...]
Shell’s board to visit Australia
Peter Klinger and Andrew Probyn, The West Australian June 19, 2012, 7:09 am Royal Dutch Shell’s board is a who’s who of global business, befitting of a company worth $213.5 billion. Shell’s chairman Jorma Ollila used to run Nokia. Fellow director Josef Ackermann was in charge of Deutsche Bank while another Shell director, Charles Holliday, [...]
Shell Oil Chief: Obama, Industry Have ‘Very Stressed Relationship’
Monday, 18 June 2012 23:30 Written by Brian Koenig Shell Oil Company’s chief U.S. official congratulated the White House for accepting the “strategic importance” of oil resources off the Alaskan coast, but asserted that overall tensions between President Obama and the oil industry prevail. “I think you see a lot and you hear a lot [...]
Corrosion seen in shut Motiva Texas crude unit -sources
Tue Jun 19, 2012 3:28am IST (Reuters) – Extensive corrosion, that may require up to five months to repair, has been found inside Motiva Enterprises new 325,000 barrel per day (bpd) crude distillation unit at its 600,000 bpd Port Arthur, Texas, refinery, according to sources familiar with refinery operations. The root cause of the corrosion, [...]
Gazprom to wind up Shtokman operator – paper
MOSCOW, June 19 | Tue Jun 19, 2012 1:56am EDT (Reuters) – Russian group Gazprom is winding up the entity it created to operate the Shtokman gas field and may set up a new company as it prepares to sign a deal that will see Royal Dutch Shell join the project, Vedomosti reported on Tuesday. [...]
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