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July 13th, 2012:

Shell pays staff $90m in legal case

FROM OUR JULY 2005 SHELL NEWS ARCHIVE…

The Guardian: Shell pays staff $90m in legal case

“British oil group Shell has settled a legal action by some of its US employees, who were furious about the overstatement of its oil and gas reserves, for $90m (pounds 51m).”

Thursday 13 July 2005

British oil group Shell has settled a legal action by some of its US employees, who were furious about the overstatement of its oil and gas reserves, for $90m (pounds 51m).

The American staff had Shell shares in their pension funds. Other shareholders are suing the company and separate talks to settle that action are continuing.

In the deal struck with employees’ lawyers, Shell will pay up to $1m for costs. The company has also agreed new rules for staff who are charged with looking after their pension funds, dealing with the way they are monitored and trained. read more

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Greenpeace shows Shell the way forward

By Aaron Gray-Block – July 13, 2012 at 17:45

Speaking from within the headquarters of oil major Shell on Friday, the words of Greenpeace Netherlands executive director Sylvia Borren were clear:  “My first move as the new CEO of Shell is simple and effective: no drilling for oil in the pristine Arctic.”

With that, Borren had announced a new corporate strategy for Shell.

Borren, symbolically ‘replacing’ Shell chief executive Peter Voser at the helm of the company,  said Shell would end its destructive oil drilling and instead invest its billions of dollars in profits into renewable energy. read more

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Shell Oil Co. gave Gov. Tom Corbett $50,000

Gas industry contributions to Pa. politicians down

July 13, 2012 11:50 AM PITTSBURGH — The gas drilling industry gave less money to Pennsylvania politicians in 2011, but it spent more on lobbyists.

Politicians received $560,800 from the industry in 2011, down from $1.6 million in 2010, Pennsylvania Common Cause said in a news release Thursday. But gas industry lobbying expendtitures rose from $4 million to $5 million during the same period.

Shell Oil Co. gave Gov. Tom Corbett $50,000 in February 2011 — just a few months before the company announced that it was considering building a huge new petrochemical plant in the region. Exxon Mobil Corp. also gave Corbett $10,000 in December.

The data also showed that at the beginning of 2011, Shell began spending about $92,000 each quarter on lobbyists. read more

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Shell Seeks to Weaken Air Rules for Arctic Drilling

By JOHN M. BRODER: July 13, 2012, 2:56 pm

Shell has asked the Environmental Protection Agency to loosen air pollution requirements for its Discoverer drill rig, which is planning to begin exploratory drilling operations off the North Slope of Alaska early next month.

In its application to the agency, dated June 28, Shell said the Discoverer cannot meet the requirements for emissions of nitrogen oxide and ammonia of an air permit granted by the E.P.A. in January. The company also asked for a minor air permit modification for its Kulluk drill ship, which is also supposed to begin work in the Arctic in the coming weeks. read more

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Nigeria’s Revised Oil Bill Reduces Taxes for Exploration

By Elisha Bala-Gbogbo – Jul 13, 2012 5:03 PM GMT+0100

Nigeria’s revised oil industry bill reduced taxes to be paid by producers after energy companies including Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSA) opposed initial proposals as too high.

The Petroleum Industry Bill, which was approved by the Cabinet on July 11 for presentation to the Parliament, proposes 50 percent tax for onshore and shallow fields and 20 percent for deepwater fields, according to a copy of the bill obtained by Bloomberg. The original proposals were for 85 percent and 50 percent respectively. read more

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Shell greenlights halved Louisiana-to-Texas crude oil pipeline

Thu Jul 12, 2012 3:16pm EDT

(Reuters) – A new crude oil pipeline from a key terminal in Louisiana to refineries near Port Arthur, Texas, will be built at about half the size envisioned late last year, Shell Pipeline LP said on Thursday after securing customer commitments for the project.

The Westward Ho Pipeline, which will carry crude oil from St. James, Louisiana, to Gulf of Mexico refiners just across the Texas border, will have an initial capacity of 300,000 barrels per day, the subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell (RDSa.L) said. read more

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Algeria to ink shale gas partnerships with Shell, Exxon

BY SUMMER SAID

DUBAI–Algerian state-run oil company Sonatrach will soon sign partnership agreements with Royal Dutch Shell and Exxon Mobil Corp. on shale gas exploration in the north African country, the firm’s chief executive, Abdelhamid Zerguine, said in remarks published Thursday.

The new partnerships will be similar to the agreements signed earlier with Italy’s Eni SpA and Canada’s Talisman Energy Inc., Mr. Zerguine said, according to the official Algerie Presse Service, or APS. read more

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UK Takeover Panel Gives Shell, PTT July 16 Deadline For Cove Offers

By Sarah Kent: Published July 13, 2012 by Dow Jones Newswires

U.K. regulator, the Takeover Panel, Friday waded into the takeover battle between Royal Dutch Shell PLC (RDSB.LN) and Thailand’s PTT Exploration & Production PCL (PTTEP.TH) over Africa-focused Cove Energy PLC (COV.LN), giving the companies a deadline of July 16 to make their final offers.

If no offer is accepted by this date, the sale of Cove will be decided by an auction on July 17, the Takeover Panel said in a statement. The regulator’s intervention will draw to a close a months-long contest between the two companies for the prize of potentially-lucrative natural gas discoveries in Africa. read more

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