October 21st, 2013:
Shell Announces Successful Bid for Giant Field in Deep Water Brazil
Discovery ensues in Motiva explosion suit
According to the lawsuit, on July 31, 2011, Carrell was working at the Motiva facility when an explosion occurred, causing him to suffer bodily injuries.
Discovery continues to dominant litigation brought by Jasper County resident Tommy Carrell Jr., who sued Motiva Enterprises for alleged injuries he received in an explosion that occurred in July 2011 at the Port Arthur refinery.
As previously reported, the suit was filed Feb. 5 in Jefferson County District Court.Â
Court records show the latest filing in the suit was a certificate of discovery filed Aug. 27.
The document shows Motiva served Carrell with its second request for production.
Brazil Sends Army to Protect First Pre-Salt Oil Sale
The Brazilian government is dispatching army troops to protect the auction of a $184 billion oilfield today in a Rio de Janeiro hotel. Soldiers, army vehicles, helicopters and navy ships are guarding the hotel in a beach-side suburb of Rio where companies including China National Petroleum Corp., Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSA) and Total SA (FP) are expected to vie for one of the world’s two largest offshore fields at 3 p.m. local time…
October 21, 2013
The Brazilian government is dispatching army troops to protect the auction of a $184 billion oilfield today in a Rio de Janeiro hotel.
Soldiers, army vehicles, helicopters and navy ships are guarding the hotel in a beach-side suburb of Rio where companies including China National Petroleum Corp., Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSA) and Total SA (FP) are expected to vie for one of the world’s two largest offshore fields at 3 p.m. local time, as oil workers protest the concession. The security operation, which also includes police forces, began over the weekend.
Chris Finlayson saw himself as the victim of a brutal Shell regime
In summary, and there was evidence in 1999 to support this to a degree, Finlayson (right) saw himself as a victim of a brutal regime run out of Seafield House where the TFA mode was born and his MD Malcolm Brinded who was frantically doing everything in his power to suppress all this because he was seen by the Audit to be the principal architect of the demise in standards throughout the oilfield. Finlayson in my book was weak, and ineffective, promoted in my opinion into a position he wasn’t competent or willing to handle.
EMAIL SENT 21 OCT 2013 TO A THIRD PARTY BY BILL CAMPBELL, RETIRED HSE GROUP AUDITOR, SHELL INTERNATIONAL
Subject: Chris Finlayson
My dealings with Chris were a long time ago during an Audit in 1999. This Audit uncovered remarkably bad behaviour in the then Shell Expro organisation stemming from the business drivers and messages coming from the top of the organisation. I spent some hours in the presence of Aberdeen auditors trying to get Finlayson to retract his statements made to journalists and the BBC North reporter Colin Wight that the Touch F All concerns raised by workforce representatives were unwarranted whilst in fact the situation was worse, much worse than anyone outside the organisation could have envisaged. Last December on his appointment as the BG Chief the Independent newspaper (Mark Leftly) run a article on Finlayson titled if I can remember BG Chief breached safety rules when he was at Shell. Subsequently I wrote a couple of articles putting the meat on the bones of this which John Donovan published. BG given the right to reply made no comment and to date have not requested the evidence to support although this was offered to them.
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In summary, and there was evidence in 1999 to support this to a degree, Finlayson saw himself as a victim of a brutal regime run out of Seafield House where the TFA mode was born and his MD Malcolm Brinded who was frantically doing everything in his power to suppress all this because he was seen by the Audit to be the principal architect of the demise in standards throughout the oilfield. Finlayson in my book was weak, and ineffective, promoted in my opinion into a position he wasn’t competent or willing to handle.
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Finlayson however was the accountable person as Oil Director that position in the installation Safety Cases having prime responsibility for the health and safety of some 3000 staff offshore (taking into account both shifts so in terms of the potential loss of life this figure has to be taken for quantitative assessment of risk). After the MD brought the Audit to a premature halt Brent Bravo in particular continued to operate at intolerable risk levels. The Audit actions reluctantly accepted by Finlayson but not implemented leading inevitably to the deaths in 2003.
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All that I can say in summary is that in allowing Brent Bravo in particular to continue in operation Finlayson demonstrated a callous disregard for his duty of care for the health and safety of employees, direct and indirect, offshore.
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Shell appears to accept this given that raised no objections to the articles published recently to commemorate the deaths, the evidence supporting these articles can be provide to you if you think this would be helpful to your cause.
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I wish you luck and if I can help with any specific questions you may have please feel free to ask.
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Shell’s giant floating refrigerator to tap new gas reserves
Chief executive Peter Voser tells Emily Gosden why the massive Prelude vessel is a game-changer
6:00AM BST 21 Oct 2013
Peter Voser is surveying the view from the Prelude vessel, which he has just boarded for the first time. “Now you see the difference,” he says, pointing out an oil tanker a few hundred yards away. “That’s a regular tanker. It’s a big one, yet a small one.”
Small compared with Prelude, that is. The same could be said of all the giant vessels here in Samsung Heavy Industries’ shipyard in Geoje, South Korea. Among them are liquefied natural gas (LNG) carriers, some of the world’s biggest ships. Yet all are dwarfed by Royal Dutch Shell’s monster. It is, as Voser puts it, “massive” – and it’s still only half-built.
Dozens of LNG platforms to be developed – Shell
Dozens of floating liquefied natural gas (LNG) vessels will be developed by the energy industry over the next two decades, according to Royal Dutch Shell
6:00AM BST 21 Oct 2013
Dozens of floating liquefied natural gas (LNG) vessels will be developed by the energy industry over the next two decades, unlocking major new gas reserves that could otherwise not be produced, Royal Dutch Shell has predicted.
Speaking on a visit to the first ever floating LNG vessel, Prelude, which Shell is constructing in a South Korean shipyard, chief executive Peter Voser said there was no reason why the technology would not take off worldwide.