The Coast Guard already has referred possible pollution violations involving the Kulluk and safety and environmental issues with Shell’s other drilling rig, the Noble Discoverer, to the Justice Department. Published 13 May 2013 A formal Coast Guard hearing investigating the circumstances of the grounding of Royal Dutch Shell’s drilling rig, the Kulluk, begins at noon [...]
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Shell Censorship
Our arch-critic, LondonLad, who has been posting comments on our Shell Blog for many years under his current or former alias, mostly highly critical of our articles, has stated: “I genuinely salute the Donovan’s for inserting comments on the Blog from the likes of myself.” Unlike Royal Dutch Shell, we are receptive to criticism. Sometimes [...]
Ogoniland: Shell Starting To Pull Out
12 April 2013 Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria, said, Wednesday [10 April], it had begun the decommissioning of its facilities in Ogoniland, Rivers State, with the commencement of an audit of its assets in the area. Shell said in a statement the process began with bush clearing in the fourth quarter of last year, [...]
Shell demands Nigeria do more to stop rising oil theft
EXTRACTS: Last month Shell said it was forced to close the Nembe Creek oil pipeline, which carries about 150,000 barrels a day, to clear away oil split following a theft. As more oil is pillaged, there is a growing threat of an environmental disaster in Nigeria, Shell said in its annual sustainability report. While Nigeria [...]
Shell returns to polluted Nigeria oil region
LAGOS — Shell on Thursday said it had launched a review of its oil and gas assets in Nigeria’s massively polluted Ogoniland region, resuming work in the area two decades after unrest forced the company to pull out. The Anglo-Dutch oil major said the move was not part of an attempt to restart oil production [...]
Shell Warns of Environmental Cost of Oil Theft in Niger Delta
Published April 11, 2013 by Dow Jones Newswires Rising incidences of oil theft in Nigeria’s oil producing Niger Delta come at a significant environmental cost, Royal Dutch Shell PLC (RDSB) said Thursday. In its sustainability report, the Anglo-Dutch oil major said its Nigerian unit, Shell Petroleum Development Company, or SPDC, experienced 137 spills as a [...]
Shell pipeline spills oil into Houston area bayou
April 4, 2013, 3:29 p.m. EDT By Ben Lefebvre An estimated 50 barrels of oil spilled from a pipeline operated by a subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell PLC (RSDA.LN, RDSA) into a waterway outside Houston, according to the U.S. Coast Guard. Shell clean-up crews were working to clear the crude out of Vince Bayou, a [...]
Nigerian agencies seek $11.5 billion oil spill payout from Shell
ABUJA, March 27 | Wed Mar 27, 2013 4:14pm EDT (Reuters) – Two Nigerian government agencies told a parliamentary hearing on Thursday that Royal Dutch Shell should pay a total of $11.5 billion in compensation for damage caused by an oil spill at its offshore Bonga field in December 2011. Shell has said that there [...]
Nigerian Oil Thieves Return to Decimate Output
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 [...]
Shell’s Arctic Failure
Shell, a company with one of the worst human rights and environmental records in history, has cancelled its plans to drill this summer in the Alaskan Arctic. A fitting end to a year-long tragicomedy of errors. A year that began with boasting and bravado and ended in a series of accidents and outright safety violations [...]
With 2 Ships Out of Commission, Shell Suspends Arctic Drilling
By JOHN M. BRODER: February 27, 2013 WASHINGTON — After a series of costly and embarrassing accidents in its efforts to drill exploratory wells off the north coast of Alaska last year, Royal Dutch Shell announced on Wednesday that it would not return to the Arctic in 2013. The company’s two drill ships suffered serious [...]
Coast Guard Finds 16 Violations on Shell Ship
The U.S. Coast Guard has turned over its investigation of violations on a Royal Dutch Shell PLC Arctic drill ship to the Department of Justice, officials said Friday. By MARK THIESSEN Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska February 23, 2013 (AP) The U.S. Coast Guard has turned over its investigation of violations on a Royal Dutch Shell [...]
Shell undermines climate, guts clean energy legislation
By: Ray Anderson, River Falls Published February 13, 2013 Letter: Shell undermines climate, guts clean energy legislation, he says TO THE EDITOR: The Royal Dutch Shell Oil Company, the most carbon-intensive oil company in the world, will contribute more to global warming than any other oil company. Shell continues to expand investments in oil sands [...]
Shell plans to tow drill vessels to Asia for major repairs
The Kulluk, a 266-foot diameter, 30-year-old circular drilling rig, had been mothballed in Canada for a dozen years before Shell bought it in 2005 for an untold sum and invested $292 million in upgrades and retrofitting. The 514-foot-long Noble Discoverer is even older, built in 1966 and converted into a drilling ship 10 years later. [...]
Kulluk grounding has already cost Shell $90 million
Royal Dutch Shell is a company with sham business principles and no scruples. It plotted to exploit the 9/11 attack for commercial purposes, adopted a Touch F*** All approach to the safety of offshore operations costing the lives of Shell offshore workers, and even defrauded its own investors. Is the U.S. government really going to [...]
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