Posts under ‘Chevron’

SELECTION OF SHELL RELATED ARTICLE LINKS KINDLY SUPPLIED BY A REGULAR CONTRIBUTOR IEA forecasts US to account for a third of new oil supplies: Financial Times-The outlook will influence businesses as diverse as major oil companies, including ExxonMobil and Royal Dutch Shell, big commodities traders … Oxford University won’t take funding from tobacco companies. But …: The Guardian-… on research at Manchester University partly to [...]

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 [...]

By James Paton:April 29, 2013 Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSA), Europe’s largest oil company, plans to name Ann Pickard as head of its Arctic operations, moving her from the helm of the Australian business, a person with knowledge of the matter said. Pickard, a former Shell executive in Nigeria who became chairwoman of Shell’s Australian [...]

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 [...]

 Not Shell, but Chevron using similar legal tactics…. By CLIFFORD KRAUSS: April 12, 2013 HOUSTON — An environmental case that has pitted Chevron against Ecuadorean Amazon villagers for two decades has taken another bizarre twist, with an American consulting firm now recanting research favorable to the villagers’ claims of pollution in remote tracts of jungle. [...]

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 [...]

Selection of links to Shell related articles kindly supplied by a regular contributor Niger Delta fishermen want N4.32b from Shell: P.M. News-We are appealing to Federal Government, Shell Company and NOSDRA to look into the hardship caused by the oil spill on our members in the … Kiobel case: Corporate accountability for human rights abuses: [...]

Published March 21, 2013 by Dow Jones Newswires Royal Dutch Shell’s (RDSA, RDSA.LN) African exploration interests are currently focused on Tanzania and Zanzibar, CEO Peter Voser said Thursday, though he also mentioned the oil giant has blocks of land available in Somalia. Mr. Voser’s Somalia comments are the clearest indication yet the Anglo-Dutch major may [...]

BY LIAM DENNING OF THE WALL STREET JOURNAL: Chevron, Shell and Big Oil’s Big Divide Chevron just took silver. That offers gold for investors. A decade ago, Chevron’s market capitalization of $70 billion was half the size of Royal Dutch Shell’s. This year, though, Chevron has opened up a lead: Worth $232 billion, it is [...]

Selection of links to Shell related articles kindly supplied by a regular contributor Big oil tries to make amends for missing another big boom: Quartz-by Steve LeVine-The absence of Big Oil–BP, Chevron, Exxon and Shell; Total is a quasi super-major–from East Africa may seem odd. Analysts say that, taken … Why the war in Iraq [...]

By Elisha Bala-Gbogbo on March 05, 2013 Nigeria’s oil thieves are back in action, sabotaging pipelines to rob Africa’s biggest crude producer of more than a 10th of its daily production. In the first two months of this year alone, Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSA) and other oil companies have declared three force majeures, a [...]

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 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 [...]

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 [...]

By Elisha Bala-Gbogbo – Feb 1, 2013 11:23 AM GMT Fines amounting to $8 billion sought by Nigeria from Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSA) and Chevron Corp. (CVX) for oil spills are not backed by law, said Bukola Saraki, chairman of the country’s Senate Committee on Environment. “Under the existing law, there is no penalty [...]