Posts under ‘Exxon Mobil’

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 [...]

Selection of links to Shell related articles kindly supplied by a regular contributor Big Oil Wants to Develop Its Own Maritime Fleet: Motley Fool-Big Oil Wants to Develop Its Own Maritime Fleet … Royal Dutch Shell (NYSE: RDS-A ) was the first to announce that it had begun construction … Shell Oil out: Native tribe [...]

Selection of links to Shell related articles kindly supplied by a regular contributor Arctic Whales, Shell Execs & Spider Legs: unEARTHED, from Earthjustice (blog)-Mar 22, 2013: Arctic Whales, Shell Execs & Spider Legs … ConocoPhillips has submitted drilling and oil spill response plans, but the government has so far …  (This first article has a [...]

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 [...]

UK Shale Gas Numbers Could Be Stratospheric By Peter C Glover EXTRACTS Should we? Shouldn’t we? While Europe dithers over whether the blatant economic success of the US shale gas ‘miracle’ will translate to these shores, the UK Government has been slightly more pro-shale active. But, while the threat of (liberal democrat-instituted) over-regulation still casts [...]

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 Shell drillship may have legal troubles on horizon: Alaska Dispatch-Ed Markey, D-Mass., to Shell Oil Co. President Marvin Odum. Among the issues noted by the Coast Guard’s inspectors were “improper wire … Japan wakes up to US shale revolution: Financial Times-… affecting [...]