Stephen Bell: From: Dow Jones: June 17, 2013 CHINA National Offshore Oil Corp, known as Cnooc, and Royal Dutch Shell are among companies that have committed to spend at least $180 million over the next three years searching for new oil and gas deposits in Australia. Resources and Energy Minister Gary Gray said 13 permits, [...]
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Unionists protest against potential loss of jobs
Hundreds of unionists gathered outside Parliament House in Perth to protest against the potential loss of jobs in the gas industry. They have blocked all the entrances stopping MPs and staff from entering the carpark. The Australian Metal Workers Union say a decision by Woodside and Shell to use floating LNG platforms rather than onshore [...]
Union protests against floating LNG in WA
AAP: June 11, 2013 9:05AM UNION members have protested outside Parliament House in Perth saying floating LNG projects will rob locals of jobs. Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union (AMWU) members gathered on Tuesday to voice their concerns about the vessel-based liquefied natural gas projects. Energy giant Royal Dutch Shell is using floating LNG technology for its [...]
Shell says to invest $30 billion in Australia over five years
BRISBANE | Mon May 27, 2013 3:19am BST (Reuters) – Royal Dutch Shell plans to invest $30 billion in Australia over the next five years, the firm’s outgoing chief executive Peter Voser said in a speech at an industry conference on Monday. Voser, who built the oil company into a leader in liquefied natural gas, [...]
Food for thought, especially for Shell shareholders
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 [...]
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 [...]
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