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November, 2012:

Exxon, Shell Said to Face Delay on Kashagan Output Boost

Nov 20th, 2012
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By Nariman Gizitdinov – Nov 20, 2012 9:45 AM GMT

Exxon Mobil Corp. (XOM), Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSA) and their partners in Kazakhstan’s Kashagan oil field face a delay of at least two years on a plan to boost output 20 percent, reducing the time they have to recoup costs in the $46 billion project that’s already running eight years late, according to two people with knowledge of the matter.

Kazakhstan has told the partners to put the $5 billion step-up plan, taking output to as much as 450,000 from 370,000 barrels day, on hold until they study how the start of production next year affects the deposit, the people said, asking not to be identified because the information is private. read more

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Shell may feed Arrow gas into rivals’ Australian LNG plants

Nov 20th, 2012
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Tue Nov 20, 2012 2:35am EST

* Final investment decision likely delayed for Arrow LNG

* Shell may sell gas to rivals’ LNG plants

* Cost blowout still an issue -source

* Decision not to move forward with plant would be prudent -analysts

By Rebekah Kebede and Sonali Paul

PERTH/MELBOURNE, Nov 20 (Reuters) – Royal Dutch Shell may delay a final decision on whether to push ahead with its Arrow liquefied natural gas plant in Australia as it considers feeding its gas into other LNG projects in the area due to rising costs. read more

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Shell Security Service in Ireland

Nov 20th, 2012
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Garda guide for Corrib protests proposed

ÁINE RYAN

A human rights report on the policing of the controversial Corrib gas project has recommended that the Department of Justice publish a guide defining methods that may be legitimately used by An Garda Síochána during protests.

The report on the Corrib Human Rights Monitoring Initiative states this guide would help ensure that gardaí “respect and fulfil the right to peaceful protests and exercise their legal duty and responsibility to prevent, detect and investigate crime and to safeguard the right of others to public order and security”. read more

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Selection of Shell related news articles Monday 19 November 2012

Nov 19th, 2012
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Selection of Shell related news articles Monday 19 November 2012

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Some articles which may be of interest to your visitors:

Shell pins big bucks on natural gas projects: Buffalo News-3: Kylie, “The Abbey Road Sessions” (Astralwerks). … Royal Dutch Shell Plc, Europe’s largest oil company, has earmarked more than $20 billion …

Shell to Invest $20 Billion in Growing LNG Market: Gulf Oil & Gas …: Equities.com

Shell rethinks Arrow LNG as costs blow out: The Australian

TOP Oil Market News: Crude Rises a Second Day Amid Israel Crisis: Bloomberg: Oil advanced for a second day in New York after Israel said it may expand an … Royal Dutch Shell Plc released butadiene that exceeded the … read more

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Old EP hand replies to criticism of comments about Shell and Nigeria

Nov 19th, 2012
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Nigerian Laddy, my brodder! How now, how de Madam? Eeh, my headengine, him go disappoint me big-oh how you be talking to your brodder. No peppersoup and goatstew wid de foo-foo for you today!

(ARTICLE UPDATED 22 NOVEMBER WITH POSTING BY OGONI ACTIVIST BEN IKARI)

The original comment by Old EP hand related to our article: Shell Unit Sells Interest in Nigerian Oil Mining Lease for $567

This is the latest exchange on our Shell Blog:

Nigeria Laddy posting on Nov 18th, 2012 at 11:06

Old EP Hand: It’s guys like you that screwed up Nigeria years ago – that is what my friends here tell me. Thank you very much. Don’t blame management of today – go look in the mirror. Perhaps giving back your pension would the decent thing to do instead of bad mouthing the current generation, incl. management.

old EP hand posting on Nov 19th, 2012 at 16:14 read more

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BP Seen as Takeover Target as Valuation Sinks

Nov 19th, 2012
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By Brian Swint and Matthew Campbell on November 19, 2012

Bob Dudley shrank BP Plc (BP/) to save it.

The onetime Mississippian and current chief executive officer has sold more than $50 billion of assets to pay the costs of the worst U.S. oil spill in history in 2010. Rescued from the brink of collapse, Europe’s second-largest oil company is now seen as vulnerable to a takeover.

BP is the cheapest of the world’s five biggest non-state oil companies by market value relative to reserves, earnings and output. As a result it may become a target, according to people familiar with the strategic thinking of the London-based company and its potential acquirers. read more

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Shell Celebrates 40 Years of Scenarios

Nov 19th, 2012
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Comment by John Donovan: This is a press release by Royal Dutch Shell boasting about its scenario planning. The famed corporate crystal ball never revealed a world in which its so-called No.1 Enemy would be operating globally under the Royal Dutch Shell Plc top level domain name, dealing on Shell’s behalf with job applications, business proposals, complaints, invitations to speak at conferences, and even terrorist threats. This was a scenario apparently deemed too far beyond the realms of possibility to be contemplated, but it is nonetheless the incredible reality and has been for getting on to a decade. How on earth did such a supposedly far-sighted management end up in such a humiliating situation, which has already cost the company billions of dollars? Bet they also never conjured up a scenario in which Darth Watts would materialize in the guise of a holy man?

By Royal Dutch Shell plc: Published: Sunday, Nov. 18, 2012 – 4:07 pm

THE HAGUE, The Netherlands, November 19, 2012 — /PRNewswire/ —

Scenario planning helps Shell make critical business decisions

Forty years ago, in 1972, work began on what many people regard as the first Shell Scenarios document, published the following year, though the roots of this work lie even further in the past. Since then, scenario planning has been at the heart of Shell’s business, developing senior leadership understanding of critical factors in the business environment and the possible directions which economic, geopolitical and social systems could take, decades into the future. read more

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Shell, EDF Lead 100 Companies Calling for Carbon Price

Nov 19th, 2012
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By Alex Morales on November 18, 2012

Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSA) joined Electricite de France SA and more than 100 companies calling for lawmakers worldwide to put a “clear” price on carbon emissions in order to contain global warming.

Companies invest trillions of dollars in energy and infrastructure projects, and, in most cases, don’t consider goals to cut greenhouse gases, the companies said today in a statement that’s due to be presented to European Commissioner for Climate Action Connie Hedegaard in Brussels.

“A clear, stable, ambitious and cost-effective policy framework is essential to underpin the investment needed to deliver substantial greenhouse gas emissions reductions by mid- century,” the companies said in the e-mailed statement. “Putting a clear, transparent and unambiguous price on carbon emissions must be a core policy objective.” read more

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Selection of articles Monday 19 November 2012

Nov 19th, 2012
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Selection of articles Monday 19 November 2012

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Some articles which may be of interest to your visitors:

Shell Increases Participation in the Schiehallion Field [Gulf Oil & Gas …: Equities.com: Shell announced the signing of separate agreements for the acquisition of Murphy Schiehallion Limited 5.9% stake in the Schiehallion field …

Lizzie Zobel helps public schools, Shell CEO on oil smuggling: Philippine Star: UBS Optimus Foundation presents a grant of one million Swiss francs (P43.3 million) to Teach for the Philippines: Lizzie Zobel, cofounder and … read more

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From Mammon to God: Oiligarchs beat the path from profit to pews

Nov 19th, 2012
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“Watts only ended his 35-year career with Shell because he was forced out over the 2004 oil reserves fiasco. News that the company had been overstating its reserves by 20 per cent caused Shell’s stock prices to fall by $15bn — yet Watts still walked away with a £1 million pay-off and a pension of more than £500,000 per annum…”

It’s not just Justin Welby – oiligarchs beat the path from profit to pews

5 November 2012

From Mammon to God. The Church of England seems to be flooded with former oil men at present.

Last week Justin Welby, who spent 11 years working as an oil executive, was appointed as the new Archbishop of Canterbury. What’s less well known is that another big name in oil has received a clerical promotion. Sir Philip Watts, Shell’s former chairman, is to become priest in charge at Waltham St Lawrence, Berkshire, after being a curate at another local church.

Although they worked in the same industry, the two men’s paths to salvation have been rather different. While Welby voluntarily swapped the high pay for pews because he was “unable to get away from a sense of God calling”, Watts only ended his 35-year career with Shell because he was forced out over the 2004 oil reserves fiasco. News that the company had been overstating its reserves by 20 per cent caused Shell’s stock prices to fall by $15bn — yet Watts still walked away with a £1 million pay-off and a pension of more than £500,000 per annum. read more

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Gas is abundant, affordable and acceptable. It’s also the future, argues Shell chief Peter Voser

Nov 17th, 2012
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Ahead of the Government’s gas strategy, Shell chief executive Peter Voser reveals why it is the fuel of the future and how he is riding the shale revolution.

Peter Voser believes Shell is creating value out of the whole of the production and supply chain and that its exposure to gas growth is the jewel in the crown Photo: Reuters

Kamal Ahmed

By : 9:00PM GMT 17 Nov 2012

It was apt that Royal Dutch Shell chose the Royal Institution in London’s Mayfair as the venue for its briefing with investors last week.

It would not have been lost on Peter Voser, the energy giant’s chief executive, that the institution was the working home of Michael Faraday, the man who in 1831 built the first electric motor and on whose principles the whole of electric power generation is based.

The Royal Institution was launched in 1799, a time when Britain was at war with France and fear stalked the establishment. Would the rapid industrialisation of the UK be put at risk by a lack of access to continental markets? For the princely sum of 500 guineas, members could join an “institution for diffusing the knowledge and facilitating the general introduction of useful mechanical inventions”. The country needed to work out how to make more energy to feed the beast of growth. read more

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Niger Delta Villagers VS Shell – Seeking Justice Abroad

Nov 17th, 2012
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By Zainab Usman, 16 November 2012:

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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 delta has taken oil behemoth Royal Dutch Shell to court in the Netherlands over alleged environmental pollution and “corporate crimes”.

Nigeria, the leading oil producer in Africa and eighth largest in the world, has most of its oil deposits located in the wetland and mangrove region of the Niger delta. Decades of oil extraction have left much of the region’s vegetation, farmlands, fishponds and drinking water polluted, and contributed to the impoverishment of much of its local population. read more

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The Sins of The Reverend Sir Philip Watts

Nov 17th, 2012
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Update by John Donovan: Last week we revealed the latest incarnation of the disgraced reserves fraudster Sir Philip Watts, formally an arms supplier and human rights abuser in Nigeria, a spaceman and a notorious Group Chairman of Royal Dutch Shell Group. Sir Phil has now turned to religion in a big way.  Unfortunately the past penchant for cover-up associated with Sir Philip continues even in his new guise. One of the articles  cited as proof of his conversion to the path of righteousness has been speedily removed from the Waltham St Lawrence & Shurlock Row Parish Website. This is the only trace which remains and if past form is any guide, it too will quickly vanish, like Shell oil and gas reserves. This time I have retained a copy. Perhaps Sir Philip will include a reference to the unmasking of his past sins in his next sermon? Confession is said to be good for the soul. read more

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Noble Discoverer stack fire contained by Shell Oil personnel

Nov 17th, 2012
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Eric Christopher Adams, Alex DeMarban | Nov 16, 2012

A drill rig involved in Shell Oil’s inaugural season of Arctic oil exploration briefly caught fire Friday morning in Dutch Harbor, an international port in Alaska’s Aleutian Islands, according to the Unalaska Fire Department.

Firefighters responded to calls of a fire at the U.S. Coast Guard docks at 10:22 a.m. Friday, where a plume of black smoke was seen coming off of a vessel, according to Unalaska Fire Chief Abner Hoage. As firefighters approached the docks there was an explosion aboard the Noble Discoverer, Hoage said. read more

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Ikea ‘deeply regrets’ use of forced labour: when is Shell going to apologise?

Nov 16th, 2012
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I wonder when Royal Dutch Shell is going to apologise for using Jewish forced labour at its German subsidiary Rhenania-Ossag…

By John Donovan

BBC News has reported that Ikea ‘deeply regrets’ use of forced labour.

According to the report:

Ikea gave contracts to the East German (GDR) government in the 1970s. Former political prisoners of the Stasi, the feared secret police, said they worked on the furniture, prompting Ikea to commission the Ernst & Young report in May this year.

The company said that although it took steps to try to ensure that prisoners were not used in production, “it is now clear that these measures were not effective enough”. read more

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Can Shell placate environmental critics?

Nov 16th, 2012
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FROM OUR NOVEMBER 2004 SHELL NEWS ARCHIVE

BBC2 TV Newsnight: Can Shell placate environmental critics?

Hilton Kelley claims Port Arthur has been “devastated by pollution”. “We had a great community one time,” says Hilton Kelley “Sandwich shops, taxi stands, nightclubs – we had all these things. Now it’s devastated by pollution. “Many of the residents have died from cancer – kids have moved away – they no longer want to live here.” Hilton, together with 1,200 residents of Port Arthur, has launched a class action lawsuit against Shell, claiming breach of environmental human rights. So what are the facts?”

By Paul Mason, Business correspondent, Newsnight: Broadcast 28 Oct 2004

Residents of Port Arthur, Texas, claim the Shell-owned oil refinery bordering their town is damaging their environment and health.

With a major restructure underway after being caught mis-stating its oil reserves, how did a small US town’s problems shoot to the top of Shell’s corporate agenda?

Oil built Port Arthur.

It was the nearest port to the first Texan oil gusher in 1901. By 1903 Texaco had built its first refinery here. read more

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