Posts under ‘Exxon Mobil’

By Eric Martin, Carlos Manuel Rodriguez and Helder Marinho: June 18, 2013 Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto said he’s confident Congress will end the state oil monopoly this year, opening the way for companies such as Exxon Mobil Corp. and Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSA) to tap the nation’s reserves. In the model envisioned by [...]

Expect to see more big names from the oil industry, such as Shell, ExxonMobil and Statoil, moving into the British shale sector now that one of their competitors – Centrica – has taken the plunge. The international companies have always taken a keen interest in the UK fracking scene… Whether the UK can get shale [...]

I am a documentary film-maker based in the West of Ireland, and am looking to fund a follow-on to my last, and first, feature documentary, ‘The Pipe’, which has won numerous awards and been broadcast in 25 countries on 4 continents.  While filming ‘The Pipe’ (supported by TG4 and IFB), a story about the community [...]

By Arjun Sreekumar | June 1, 2013 | Over the past few years, the large Western oil majors have been plagued by projects running substantially over budget, and taking much longer to complete than initially estimated. These hurdles are part of the broader challenge facing oil companies — how to cope with the end of [...]

The Arctic may hold 13 percent of the world’s undiscovered oil and 30 percent of its gas, but a series of blunders and failures there are making executives fight shy of such a sensitive area and turn their attention back to more conventional resources and the shale revolution. The turning point likely came on New [...]

Article recommended by Esther Kiobel Published on Thursday, May 23, 2013 by TomDispatch.com The Biggest Criminal Enterprise in History Terracide and the Terrarists Destroying the Planet for Record Profits by Tom Engelhardt Call it irony, if you will, or call it a nightmare, but Big Oil evidently has no qualms about making its next set [...]

By Anna Holligan BBC News, The Netherlands As earthquakes become more intense and more frequent in the north of the Netherlands, there is mounting pressure on the government to reduce the amount of gas being extracted there. It is a curse for thousands of inhabitants having to cope with the effects of living amid the [...]

By Robert Tuttle – May 16, 2013 5:00 AM GMT+0100 Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSA) may export U.S. natural gas in liquid form, convert it into chemicals or build a gas-to-liquids plant to produce fuel, said the company�s country chairman for Dubai and the northern emirates. Shell is considering the possibilities, and �it is too [...]

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 [...]

Company will drill almost two miles underwater in Gulf of Mexico as part of next generation of deep-water developments Simon Goodley The Guardian, Wednesday 8 May 2013 21.01 BST Royal Dutch Shell is pressing ahead with the world’s deepest offshore oil and gas production facility by drilling almost two miles underwater in the politically sensitive [...]

News on Irish oil and gas exploration kindly supplied by a regular contributor ExxonMobil kicks off Irish drilling campaign: Financial Times-But the US�oil�major and its partners will be hoping to successfully replicate the�….�But the field, acquired by�Shell, has attracted a wave of local�… US explorer Kosmos may spend $200m on�Irish wells: Irish Independent-Apr 18, 2013 [...]

By 2023, a Changed World in Energy By CLIFFORD KRAUSS: A version of this article appeared in print on April 25, 2013, on page F1 of the New York edition HOUSTON IF you could close your eyes for just a moment like Rip Van Winkle, and blink them open in 2023, you might see a [...]

BY JUSTIN SCHECK: April 18, 2013, 8:27 p.m. ET For more than a decade, the promised bonanza from Kazakhstan’s giant offshore Kashagan oil field has been a costly mirage for its developers. And the wait still isn’t over. The companies backing the project�which include Exxon Mobil Corp., Eni Spa and Royal Dutch Shell PLC�in March [...]

By Greg Stohr on April 17, 2013 The U.S. Supreme Court insulated multinational corporations from at least some lawsuits over atrocities abroad, scaling back a favorite legal tool of human rights activists. The justices threw out a suit accusing two foreign-based units of Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSA) of facilitating torture and execution in Nigeria. [...]

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 [...]