Posts under ‘The Washington Post’

By Associated Press, Updated: Wednesday, May 1, 1:16 PM BAGHDAD � Royal Dutch Shell says it has officially kicked off a multibillion-dollar project to tap natural gas in Iraq�s south.The $17 billion joint venture will gather, process and market associated gas, a by-product of producing oil, from three oil fields in the petroleum-rich province of [...]

By Steven Mufson, Published: March�14 The Interior Department issued a report sharply critical of Shell�s exploration drilling efforts in the Chukchi Sea off Alaska last year, but Secretary Ken Salazar gave the company the go-ahead to try again in 2014. Environmental groups harshly criticized the report and said it raised questions about the department�s ability [...]

By Associated Press, Updated: Friday, January�25, 10:23�AM DAVOS, Switzerland � Activists with a big fake polar bear have occupied a Shell service station in the Swiss resort of Davos to protest Royal Dutch Shell PLC�s oil drilling in the Arctic. About 25 activists from around Europe chained gas pumps together Friday at the station near [...]

ANCHORAGE, Alaska � A Royal Dutch Shell PLC drill vessel pulled from rocks off a remote Alaska island approached shelter Monday morning in a protected Kodiak Island bay. By Associated Press, Updated: Monday, January�7, 6:55�PM ANCHORAGE, Alaska � A Royal Dutch Shell PLC drill vessel pulled from rocks off a remote Alaska island approached shelter [...]

Letter to the Editor Published: October�14 The Post missed the mark in its Oct. 5 editorial �Court shopping,� which advocated clear limits on the scope of the Alien Tort Statute (ATS). In Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum (Shell), the complaint is that Shell directly assisted the Nigerian military in torturing and killing innocent villagers. If [...]

By Associated Press, Updated: Thursday, October�11, 12:11�PM THE HAGUE, Netherlands � Nigerian farmers asked a Dutch court Thursday to rule that oil company Shell is liable for poisoning their fish ponds and farmland with leaking pipelines, in a case that could set a legal precedent for holding multinationals responsible for actions overseas.The case at The [...]

By Associated Press, Updated: Friday, October�5, 4:29�PM AMSTERDAM � A Dutch court has rejected a lawsuit filed by Royal Dutch Shell PLC against Greenpeace International seeking to ban environmentalists from holding protests against the oil company�s Arctic drilling program on or near Shell property. The Amsterdam District Court said Friday Greenpeace has the right to [...]

By Associated Press, Tuesday, September�18, 2:56�AM ANCHORAGE, Alaska � Shell is limiting Arctic drilling off Alaska to just preparation work this year after suffering several setbacks, but the company says it remains optimistic about the project�s prospects. Netherlands-based Royal Dutch Shell PLC said earlier Monday that a containment dome required to be in place before [...]

By Steven Mufson, Sunday, September�9, 12:51�AM With the ice-free drilling season nearing an end, Shell Oil was expecting to start its first exploration well in the Chukchi Sea off the northwest coast of Alaska on Saturday afternoon. On Friday, the Noble Discoverer drilling rig was moored to eight anchors spread in a circular pattern 6,500 [...]

By Juliet Eilperin, Monday, August�27, 5:28�PM NASA Goddard Space Flight Center – This visualization shows the extent of Arctic sea ice on Aug. 26, the day the sea ice dipped to its smallest extent ever recorded in more than three decades of satellite measurements. The line on the image shows the average minimum extent from [...]

By Associated Press, Updated: Tuesday, July�31, 9:55�PM ANCHORAGE, Alaska � Shell Oil Co. is downsizing its plan for off-shore drilling in the Arctic this year amid delays completing a spill containment barge required by the federal government, a spokesman said Tuesday. Shell now hopes to complete two wells in 2012 instead of five. One would [...]

By Juliet Eilperin, Published: July�27 Greenpeace scientists have identified a dense patch of deep-sea corals in a lease area of the Arctic�s Chukchi Sea off Alaska�s northwest coast, where Royal Dutch Shell is slated to start drilling.Researchers for the advocacy group, which have been lobbying to block drilling in the Arctic this summer, went down [...]

The Washington Post: Protest Stalls Energy Giant in Rural Ireland “The government and Shell should be ashamed of themselves,” Sunday 25 September 2005 Farmers’ Jailing Over Gas Project Fuels Sharp Debate By Kevin Sullivan Washington Post Foreign Service Sunday, September 25, 2005; Page A30 ROSSPORT, Ireland — Five farmers from these wind-swept coastal boglands have [...]

Royal Dutch Shell News Saturday 6 November, 2004 Yahoo News: Shell-led Sakhalin signs Tokyo Electric LNG deal: “TOKYO, (Reuters) – Tokyo Electric Power Co, Japan’s biggest utility, has signed a deal to buy 1.5 million tonnes a year of liquefied natural gas from a Shell-led project in Russia’s Far East…” (ShellNews.net) Posted 6 Nov 04 [...]

The Washington Post: Oil Continues Upward March �Royal Dutch/Shell Group of Cos� withdrew nonessential personnel from the Niger Delta, said Simon Buerk, a London-based spokesman for the company. Citing policy, Buerk would not say whether production in the country was reduced as a result of the personnel withdrawal.� Justin Blum and Nell Henderson Sep 29, [...]