Shell Prelude floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) facility – food for thought, especially for Shell shareholders… LondonLad: You complain about me drawing attention to what will be an obvious, but until now, unspoken prime (almost sitting) target for a terrorist attack, but then add to the highlighting of this hugely expensive, gigantic floating LNG facility [...]
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Arctic beckons for Shell’s Pickard
Peter Klinger, Business Editor, The West Australian April 30, 2013, 7:07 am Ann Pickard, who has transformed Royal Dutch Shell into the most aggressive oil and gas player in Australia, is set to leave her powerful Perth-based post to look after the Anglo-Dutch giant’s ambitions in the Arctic Circle. Shell is thought to have informed [...]
Pickard Teleportation into an Arctic Role
I have provided links to secret US cables/articles exposing Shell’s infiltration of the supposedly sovereign Nigerian government and the involvement of Pickard in all manner of murky goings on, including trading intelligence information with the Americans. Ann Pickard will be arriving with more baggage than a Samsonite factory. By John Donovan Ann Pickard, currently the [...]
Departing Shell chief Ann Pickard faces icy challenge
Barry FitzGerald From: The Australian April 30, 2013 12:00AM THE number of powerful business women on the local scene is to become even more sparse with the return of Shell’s boss for Australia, Ann Pickard, to her native America, where she will become executive vice-president of Shell’s environmentally controversial exploration and production interests in the [...]
Highest-Paid Workforce Driving Shell Offshore Australia: Energy
Royal Dutch Shell Plc’s Prelude vessel, seen here in an image illustration, vying to be the first floating LNG facility in the world, will be as long as the Empire State Building and six times the weight of the largest aircraft carrier. Source: Rex Features via AP Images April 26, 2013 Escalating costs to build [...]
Shell pushes floating technology as James Price Point alternative
Matt Chambers From: The Australian April 12, 2013 2:19PM WHILE Woodside Petroleum chief executive Peter Coleman declined to publicly debate the prospects of the three stated alternatives to a $45 billion Browse LNG development at James Price Point because it is a joint venture decision, Royal Dutch Shell, his biggest shareholder and the biggest indirect [...]
Shell sale fuels jobs fears – 600 jobs on the line
UP to 600 local jobs are on the line after Shell announced it is selling the Geelong refinery it opened in 1954. Shell’s Geelong workers and senior management were told the news yesterday morning, just moments before a public announcement that the company was putting the refinery up for sale. While workers were told not [...]
No chance for Shell refinery sale: analyst
ABOUT 450 fearful Shell refinery workers in Geelong face a long wait for a lifeline that analysts and unions doubt will ever come. The petroleum giant has announced plans to sell its last remaining Australian refinery, but if it can’t find a buyer by the end of 2014 to keep it open, it may convert [...]
No delays from Prelude rig issues: Shell
Peter Klinger, The West Australian April 4, 2013, 6:21 am Royal Dutch Shell says the development schedule for the industry-leading Prelude floating LNG venture in the Browse Basin has not been affected by technical problems that have beset its drilling rig. The Shell-chartered Noble Clyde Boudreaux had been out of action for more than a [...]
Shell puts last remaining Australian refinery on sale, delivering a ‘hammer blow’ to Geelong
Matt Chambers and Stuart Rintoul From: The Australian April 04, 2013 5:30PM ROYAL Dutch Shell is putting its Geelong refinery up for sale, threatening the jobs of more than 500 workers in a city unions say is “already on its knees”. The oil giant says if it can’t sell the refinery, it will consider turning [...]
Is Shell STILL anti-Semitic?
“So is Shell STILL anti-Semitic, or is it simply because doing business with Israel would upset the rulers of Saudi Arabia, yet another tyrannical regime in bed with Shell? One Country swims in oil. The other doesn’t. Perhaps that has something to do with it?” By John Donovan In March 2011 we published an article [...]
Selection of links to Shell related articles: 27 February 2013
Selection of links to Shell related articles kindly supplied by a regular contributor The Race For California’s Shale Is On!: Daily Reckoning-Natural gas is plentiful and oil is coming to the surface, more each day. … Indeed, if New York goes the way of shale, the road may be paved for California. … characters include: [...]
Selection of links to Shell related articles: 21 February 2013
Selection of links to Shell related articles kindly supplied by a regular contributor ExxonMobil Witness in Trial Says MTBE Raised Cancer Risk: Bloomberg: Shell Oil Co., Sunoco Inc., ConocoPhillips (COP), Irving Oil Ltd., Vitol SA and Hess Corp. settled before the trial began. The New Hampshire … Five reasons the Keystone XL pipeline is bad [...]
Shell says no need to rush Australia Gorgon LNG expansion
PERTH | Wed Feb 20, 2013 5:01am EST Feb 20 (Reuters) – There is no need to rush the expansion of the $52-billion Gorgon liquefied natural gas (LNG) complex, the chairman of Shell Australia said on Wednesday, adding that the company wanted to avoid distraction while it kept the project on track. Shell holds a [...]
Shell to move gas centre as Asia LNG comes to the fore
By Sarah Young LONDON | Wed Dec 5, 2012 6:24pm GMT (Reuters) – Royal Dutch Shell (RDSa.L), the world’s biggest LNG company, will move the headquarters of its integrated gas business to Singapore from Europe as part of its quest to feed Asia’s surging demand for the fuel, the company said on Wednesday. “It will [...]
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