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 [...]
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Shell to develop Stones deepwater oil field in Gulf of Mexico
May 8 (Reuters) – Royal Dutch Shell Plc said on Wednesday it plans to go forward with the Stones ultra-deepwater oil and natural gas project in the Gulf of Mexico. Production during the first phase of the project is expected to have an annual peak of 50,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day, the oil [...]
Deluded and or ignorant, no, Roland Spuij is just reading from a script
“…why spoil a good story by the introduction of facts including the facts about Shell’s great Alaskan misadventure for example…” COMMENT RECEIVED FROM MR BILL CAMPBELL, RETIRED HSE GROUP AUDITOR, SHELL INTERNATIONAL RE OUR ARTICLE ABOUT SHELL EXPLORATION MANAGER ROLAND SPUIJ (PERSON ON RIGHT) TALKING THE TALK Re your article: Shell exploration manager Roland Spuij – deluded [...]
Shell exploration manager Roland Spuij – deluded or ignorant?
By John Donovan Printed below is a deluded article written by a Shell exploration manager – Roland Spuij (prat on the right) – who apparently is totally ignorant of Shell’s track record of giving a higher priority to production and profits than to the safety of its offshore workers. Either that, or he is trying [...]
Shell CEO Peter Voser should resign over Arctic debacle
Instead of an apology, humility, transparency, and resignations, Shell CEO Peter Voser serves up the usual diet of pr horse shit fed to the public and Shell stakeholders. Horse meat is at least digestible. By John Donovan Tesco is to be congratulated for treating its customers like adults over the horse meat scandal. The supermarket [...]
Ahead of Trial, Talk of a BP Settlement in 2010 Oil Spill
A BP cleanup crew removing oil from a beach in May 2010 in Port Fourchon, La., after the Deepwater Horizon disaster. Photo Credit: John Moore/Getty Images By BARRY MEIER and CLIFFORD KRAUSS: A version of this article appeared in print on February 24, 2013, on page A17 of the New York edition With a major [...]
Battle Lines Drawn for BP’s Day in Court
Cleanup crews on Pensacola Beach in 2010. A federal court in Louisiana is preparing to hear lawsuits related to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill: Photo Credit: Michael Spooneybarger/Associated Press By CLIFFORD KRAUSS: A version of this article appeared in print on February 20, 2013, on page B1 of the New York edition HOUSTON — Unless [...]
Deep-Sea Drilling Muddies Political Waters
A deep-water drilling rig in the South China Sea operated by the China National Offshore Oil Corporation, or Cnooc. Photo Credit Jin Liangkuai/Xinhua, via Associated Press By KATE GALBRAITH: A version of this article appeared in print on February 7, 2013, in The International Herald Tribune. AUSTIN, Tex. — The oceans deep are a repository [...]
BP Cedes Top U.S. Gulf Oil Producer Spot to Royal Dutch Shell
By BEN LEFEBVRE: February 5, 2013 HOUSTON–BP BP.LN +1.44% PLC ceded its spot as the biggest crude-oil producer in U.S. Gulf of Mexico federal waters to rival Royal Dutch Shell RDSB.LN +0.31% PLC as BP’s 2012 output declined due to major maintenance work and asset sales. The U.K. company had been the Gulf’s most prolific oil producer [...]
Shell fuels rumours of BP buyout plan
Shell has reignited speculation about a potential takeover of BP… Anglo-Dutch oil group’s boss says a takeover was considered in past two years and refuses to deny it has dropped the idea Terry Macalister guardian.co.uk, Friday 14 December 2012 22.04 GMT Shell has reignited speculation about a potential takeover of BP after its chief executive [...]
Shell to Offer More LNG to Power Ships, Trucks on Cheap U.S. Gas
By Eduard Gismatullin on December 03, 2012 Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSA) is expanding plans to make liquefied natural gas a fuel for ships and trucks as Europe’s largest energy producer looks to profit from the cheapness of U.S. gas compared with oil. Shell, where gas production overtook oil for the first time this year, [...]
The Inuit sitting on billions of barrels of oil
By May Abdalla BBC World Service, Point Hope, Alaska: 29 November 2012 After a decade of legal wrangling and spending $4.5bn (£2.8bn), this year Shell Oil was given permission to begin exploratory drilling off the coast of Alaska. But many in the local Inuit community are concerned it could have a devastating impact on one [...]
Shell’s Olympus Hull Departs South Korea
SOURCE Shell Offshore Inc. HOUSTON, Nov. 28, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — Shell Offshore Inc.’s (Shell) Olympus hull, the approximately 32,500 metric ton main body of the Olympus TLP, departed from South Korea today to begin its two month journey to the U.S. Gulf Coast. The hull is expected to reach Ingleside, Texas in early 2013 where [...]
BP is still one big toxic mess
With a $130 billion market cap, and billions of dollars in unknown liabilities, BP is still one big toxic mess. Why BP is not a takeover target By Cyrus Sanati: November 26, 2012: 9:35 AM ET FORTUNE — It’s one of the largest companies in the world. Could it really be a takeover target? Some [...]
Niger Delta Villagers VS Shell – Seeking Justice Abroad
By Zainab Usman, 16 November 2012: opinion Legal action against Shell failed in Nigerian courts. So now villagers from the Niger delta are bringing the fight to Shell in their home country of the Netherlands. In the latest case of Nigerians seeking justice abroad for crimes within Nigeria, a group of villagers from the Niger [...]
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