By DOMINIC JEFF Published on 28/04/2013 00:00 HIGHER natural gas prices in the United States should help Shell rebound from its lacklustre performance at the end of last year when it presents first quarter results on Thursday. Prices have almost doubled since America’s shale gas revolution pushed prices through the floor last year, proving a [...]
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Deluded and or ignorant, no, Roland Spuij is just reading from a script
“…why spoil a good story by the introduction of facts including the facts about Shell’s great Alaskan misadventure for example…” COMMENT RECEIVED FROM MR BILL CAMPBELL, RETIRED HSE GROUP AUDITOR, SHELL INTERNATIONAL RE OUR ARTICLE ABOUT SHELL EXPLORATION MANAGER ROLAND SPUIJ (PERSON ON RIGHT) TALKING THE TALK Re your article: Shell exploration manager Roland Spuij – deluded [...]
SELECTION OF SHELL RELATED ARTICLE LINKS 24 APRIL 2013
SELECTION OF SHELL RELATED ARTICLE LINKS KINDLY PROVIDED BY A REGULAR CONTRIBUTOR Shell’s Plot to Take Away Your First Amendment Rights: Huffington Post (blog)-Apr 12, 2013: Shell Oil’s legal team is currently working overtime to keep the company’s Arctic work secret from advocacy groups like Greenpeace. It’s a battle .. Was the Iraq War to Grab Oil … Or to Raise Oil Prices?: Center for [...]
Greenpeace launches Arctic “whistleblower” site for oil workers
OSLO | Wed Apr 24, 2013 4:20am EDT (Reuters) – Environmental group Greenpeace launched a website on Wednesday seeking to attract whistleblowers from within oil companies to reveal risks with drilling for oil and gas in the Arctic. Greenpeace wants governments to ban oil and gas firms from the fragile Arctic environment. It urged employees [...]
Shell exploration manager Roland Spuij – deluded or ignorant?
By John Donovan Printed below is a deluded article written by a Shell exploration manager – Roland Spuij (prat on the right) – who apparently is totally ignorant of Shell’s track record of giving a higher priority to production and profits than to the safety of its offshore workers. Either that, or he is trying [...]
Noble Corp says Royal Dutch Shell Plc in talks to renew Arctic rig contract
By Reuters | 18 Apr, 2013, 08.41PM IST Noble Corp, owner of the world’s third-largest offshore drilling fleet, said on Thursday Royal Dutch Shell Plc was in talks to extend its contract to use the Noble Discoverer beyond February 2014, underlining its long-term plans for the offshore Arctic. The Discoverer is undergoing repairs in South [...]
Should the U.S. Expand Offshore Oil Drilling?
A version of this article appeared April 15, 2013, on page R6 in the U.S. edition of The Wall Street Journal, EXTRACT In the bureau’s 2012-17 plan, the Arctic waters of the Beaufort and Chukchi seas off Alaska are the chief areas slated for expanded leasing outside the Gulf. Environmental groups fear that drilling in [...]
Moving on, Shell signs agreement with Russia to seek oil in Arctic
Image courtesy NASA/GSFC/JPL, MISR Team Eye on the Arctic: April 16, 2013 Although Royal Dutch Shell has announced a hiatus this summer for exploring the Beaufort Sea and Arctic Ocean off of Alaska, the energy giant isn’t slowing down. Shell has signed an agreement with Russian energy giant Gazprom, allowing it to explore and develop [...]
Shell has spent $4.5 BILLION on Arctic exploration without completing a well
To Reinvigorate Production, Alaska Grants a Tax Break to Oil Companies By CLIFFORD KRAUSS: A version of this article appeared in print on April 16, 2013, on page B3 of the New York edition Hoping to reverse two decades of declining oil production in Alaska, the State Legislature in Juneau has granted oil companies an [...]
Shell demands Nigeria do more to stop rising oil theft
EXTRACTS: Last month Shell said it was forced to close the Nembe Creek oil pipeline, which carries about 150,000 barrels a day, to clear away oil split following a theft. As more oil is pillaged, there is a growing threat of an environmental disaster in Nigeria, Shell said in its annual sustainability report. While Nigeria [...]
Has Shell also shelved its Alaskan Drilling plans for 2014?
SPECULATION BY AN OFFSHORE DRILLING EXPERT RE: ConocoPhillips delays 2014 Arctic marine drilling The rules for working in Alaska require two rigs in the area for drilling to take place, so that in the event of an emergency and the loss of one rig, another rig is available to drill a relief well. [...]
ConocoPhillips delays 2014 Arctic marine drilling
By DAN JOLING, Associated Press 10 April 2013 ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — ConocoPhillips Alaska announced Wednesday it will not drill in Arctic waters off Alaska’s northwest shore in 2014. Environmental groups hailed the decision and said the experience of Royal Dutch Shell PLC in 2012 demonstrated that oil companies are not prepared to drill in [...]
Peter Voser, Petroleum Executive Screw-up of the Year Award
By John Donovan Peter R. Voser, the man ultimately responsible for Shell’s screw-up in the Arctic – a farce befitting a low budget Monty Python production, the man on whose watch Shell’s market capitalization has sunk below Chevron, making Shell the third largest of the Western oil majors, not number 2, and also the man [...]
ROYAL DUTCH SHELL SCREW UP IN THE ARCTIC
In case you are not aware, ***I have already supplied Shell insider information and leaked documents to the Department of the Interior. A senior person requested our help on behalf of the DoI, which we were happy to give. We will of course be pleased to assist in any further requests made of us. EMAIL [...]
Salazar: Shell’s troubles should inform others with Arctic plans
By Jennifer A. Dlouhy, Washington Bureau Published 7:29 pm, Friday, April 5, 2013 Lessons learned from Shell’s problem-plagued 2012 Arctic drilling operations will apply not just to that company’s future work in the Chukchi and Beaufort seas, but to Houston-based ConocoPhillips and other firms with leases in those waters, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar says. That could [...]
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