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Shell said the platform fire would be investigated
A fire which broke out on a Shell platform has been extinguished.
The fire happened on the North Cormorant platform, which is 109 miles north east of Shetland.
The “small fire” broke out at 0042 GMT on Tuesday and Shell said it was “quickly contained” by the platform fire protection system.
Shell said the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has been informed. The incident happened less than 48 hours after a fire on another oil platform.
Agence France-Presse
From correspondents in Tehran
November 27, 2007 05:33pm
IRAN has built a new longer-range missile named “Ashura” with a range of 2000km, the defence minister announced today, the Fars news agency reported.
“The construction of the Ashura missile with a range of 2000km is one of the accomplishments of the ministry of defence,” Defence Minister Mostafa Mohammad Najjar was quoted as saying.
The weapon’s range is sufficient to put US bases in the Middle East and Iran’s arch enemy Israel within reach. The missile is named after the holy Ashura mourning ceremony that marks the death of Shi’ite imam Hossein
By Tim Hepher
BEIJING, Nov 25 (Reuters) – Oil company Total SA, battling to preserve a major gas investment in Iran amid French government pressure on businesses to trim their dealings there, is playing the energy security card by highlighting Iran’s huge gas reserves.
Total CEO Christophe de Margerie told Reuters that Iran could be a valuable source of new energy supplies as Europe frets about possible gas shortages and heavy reliance on Russia.
De Margerie said talks over the South Pars development had slowed, but denied this was the result of a French government call in September to show restraint in dealing with Iran as the West tries to rein in its nuclear program.
08:50 – 27 November 2007
First Minister Alex Salmond was accused of playing politics with North Sea safety last night after calling for the Scottish Government to take over regulation of the oil and gas industry.
North-east union leaders and rival politicians dismissed as “inappropriate” Mr Salmond’s call for responsibility for health and safety matters to be devolved to Edinburgh.
And UK Work and Pensions Secretary Peter Hain said the best way to keep North Sea oil workers safe was through a consistent health and safety regime that operated regardless of borders.
By Upstream staff
Scotland’s First Minister Alex Salmond has called for the Scottish government to take control of policing the offshore industry, it was reported today.
Salmond claimed yesterday that the UK’s Health & Safety Executive (HSE) should report directly to the Scottish government on all aspects of oil and gas installations operating in Scottish waters, a report in the Edinburgh-based Scotsman newspaper said.
He added that the move would make the North Sea a “safer place”.
By Isabel Gorst in Almaty
Published: November 27 2007 02:00 | Last updated: November 27 2007 02:00
A high ranking foreign delegation arrived in Astana yesterday to discuss Kazakhstan’s demands for compensation for production delays and soaring costs at the Kashagan oilfield in the Caspian Sea.
A group led by Italy’s Eni is under intense pressure to meet a November 30 deadline set by Kazakhstan for amicable settlement of the dispute which erupted after the Italian energy group presented a revised development plan for Kashagan, one of the world’s biggest oilfields.
By Paul Betts
Published: November 27 2007 02:00 | Last updated: November 27 2007 02:00
Kazakhstan has always been at the heart of “great game” politics. Back in the 19th century, the Russians, the British, the Germans and the French were already conspiring against each other for central Asia’s rich natural resources. After the second world war, a new player entered the game – the US. Ever since, the Americans have not been shy of moving every weapon in their arsenal to tighten their hold on the region’s energy assets.
EXTRACT: “Every time we put our credit card in the gas pump, we’re paying so that the Saudis get rich – filthy, obscenely rich, and that money then ends up going to funding madrassas,” schools “that train the terrorists,” said Huckabee. “America has allowed itself to become enslaved to Saudi oil. It’s absurd. It’s embarrassing.”
myway.com: Huckabee: America Enslaved to Saudi Oil
Nov 25, 2:59 PM (ET)
WASHINGTON (AP) – Consumers are financing both sides in the war on terror because of the actions of U.S. ally Saudi Arabia, Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee said Sunday.
EXTRACT: Oil giants BP PLC and Royal Dutch Shell PLC, for example, have been forced to sell stakes in lucrative energy projects to Kremlin-controlled companies.
By ALISTAIR MACDONALD
November 27, 2007; Page C5
Black Earth Farming Ltd., a Swedish-run company that invests in Russian farmland, is planning an initial public stock offering aimed at raising 1.6 billion Swedish kronor ($255.7 million) to take advantage of soaring grain prices by buying more land.
Black Earth, which plans to offer the stock in Stockholm by the end of the year, is one of several Western European companies hoping to capitalize on the glut of cheap farmland in the nutrient-rich belt that stretches from Ukraine into central Russia.
Reuters: November 26, 2007 at 5:10 PM EST
CALGARY — — Royal Dutch Shell PLC [RDS.B-N]said Monday it has suspended bitumen production at its oil sands mine near Fort McMurray, Alta., as it works to repair a fire-damaged upgrader that converts the tar-like bitumen into synthetic crude oil.
Shell will advance the timetable of maintenance work at the Muskeg River mine while repairs at the 155,000 barrel per day Scotford upgrader are completed following a Nov. 19 fire.
Storage facilities at the mine are full, and with the upgrader damaged, there is no place to send the bitumen for processing.
Nov. 26, 2007, 4:08PM
© 2007 The Associated Press
FRISCO, Texas — Comstock Resources Inc., an oil and gas producer, said Monday it agreed to buy some oil and gas properties from Swepi LP, an affiliate of Shell Exploration & Production, for $170 million.
As part of the deal, Comstock will acquire producing properties and 70 producing wells in south Texas.
The deal is expected to close in December and will be funded by borrowing under its $600 million credit facility.
Comstock said the deal expands its presence in south Texas.
Photograph by: Donald Weber
Portfolio Magazine: Putin’s Power Grab
by James Verini December 2007 Issue
The Russian president’s global ambitions—and his drift toward totalitarianism—hinge on the staggering energy reserves of the onetime Siberian gulag of Sakhalin Island. Royal Dutch Shell knows the drill.
Even in August, a visitor to Sakhalin Island, off the eastern shores of Russia, can detect a chill in the air. The pine and birch forests are still a brilliant green, the sky azure and cloudless, but intimations of the island’s savage Siberian winter are already here. Katerina Lekomtseva, a veteran of 28 such winters, shivers as she stands on a hill above Aniva Bay, on Sakhalin’s southern coast. When Lekomtseva was a child, during the death throes of the Soviet Union, there were constant electricity shortages, and she and her father would sit in the candlelight playing a game called In Town. He would name a city, and she would name another beginning with the last letter of the city he mentioned. After her father, who hadn’t yet given up on the U.S.S.R., would say “Moscow,” Lekomtseva, who had accepted her country’s eventual demise, would counter with “Washington.” Then she would imagine how wonderful Washington must be: no electricity shortages, no candles. “I hated that game,” she tells me.
Monday, November 26, 2007
Russian President Vladimir Putin has parlayed Russia’s huge energy resources into a powerful political tool. Portfolio magazine’s James Verini has written about what lies ahead for Russia and its largest energy project, Sakhalin II. He talks with Kai Ryssdal.
TEXT OF INTERVIEW
KAI RYSSDAL: Vladimir Putin’s a little peeved at the United States. Today the Russian president accused Washington of leaning on election observers, pressuring them to stay away from parliamentary elections that’re set for this Sunday. Putin’s party is widely expected to win in a landslide this weekend. Which would help him hang onto power when he leaves the presidency this spring. Not hurting either, are the rising prices of oil and natural gas. Putin has parlayed Russia’s huge energy resources into a powerful political tool. Portfolio Magazine writer James Verini wrote about Russia’s, and the world’s, largest energy project, Sakhalin II, this month.
Nov 26, 2007 (Datamonitor via COMTEX) — RGPMF | charts | news | PowerRating — UK-based oil and gas exploration and production company Regal Petroleum has named David John Greer as chairman and CEO, Antonio Mozetic as non-executive director and Hendrikus Verkuil as an executive director.
In addition, Francesco Scolaro has stepped down as non-executive chairman and Neil Ritson has resigned from his position as CEO and director.
Mr Greer has extensive oil industry experience, having worked for Shell International Exploration and Production for 28 years. He has held a wide variety of engineering, production, commercial and senior executive positions in Shell’s operations in the UK, Netherlands, Norway, Canada, Oman, Argentina and the Philippines.
UPDATED: 4:42 pm EST November 26, 2007
PALM BAY, Fla. — Thousands of homes in Central Florida contain defective water pipes that could burst at any time. A huge lawsuit has provided millions of dollars for homeowners to replace the pipes but most consumers are not covered or don’t even know they can apply for the funds.
Patty Van Zweden is a victim of polybutylene water pipes. It’s a hard plastic pipe, usually colored gray, used by home builders for nearly 20 years as a cheap alternative to copper. But by the late 1980s, plumbers found the poly pipes failed at alarming rates. At Van Zweden’s Palm Bay house, a pipe burst in the master bath when nobody was home.
Uchenna Izundu
International Editor
LONDON, Nov. 26 — More than half of the oil and gas industry’s basic assets in the UK North Sea that have been inspected over the past 3 years are in poor condition, and companies will face closure or prosecution if they do not improve safety standards, warned the UK Health and Safety Executive (HSE) in a report.
After inspecting almost 100 oil and gas platforms, HSE said various safety-related incidents had occurred because of the poor upkeep of basic structures, and that some maintenance backlogs were “unacceptable.”
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