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November, 2013:

Shell details plans for drilling in Chukchi Sea off Alaska

Nov 19th, 2013
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Screen Shot 2013-01-11 at 20.09.51A leased drill ship, the Polar Pioneer, would substitute for the Kulluk — the conical, Shell-owned ship damaged in the now-notorious New Year’s Eve grounding — as the backup drill rig that would be used in a cleanup in the event of a well blowout.

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Yereth Rosen:November 18, 2013

Shell plans to drill five wells over several years at its Burger prospect in the Chukchi Sea, according to a revised exploration plan filed Nov. 6 and posted online by the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management.

Under the plan, Shell would use the leased Noble Discoverer drill ship to finish the well it started in 2012 and drilled to 1,505 feet. Five additional Burger wells also would be drilled.

“It is anticipated that this work will take place over a number of drilling seasons,” the 423-page modified plan says. read more

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Shell speaks out over Don Marketing

Nov 18th, 2013
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Forecourt Trader: Shell speaks out over Don

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Shell has broken its vow of silence and issued a strongly-worded statement to defend itself against what it sees as “the growing number of untrue and often offensive allegations being made by Don Marketing”.

Shell is defending legal actions which allege that it wrongfully used two forecourt promotions devised by Don Marketing. Previously, the oil company has remained silent, preferring to “resolve the dispute in the courts which Shell believes is the proper forum for a commercial dispute”. read more

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Where is the most ethical place to fill up your car?

Nov 17th, 2013
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If ever there was a “What’s your poison?” dilemma, this is it. First, history: Shell in Nigeria, Total in Burma… No brand gets off lightly…

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Pumped up: choose an independent petrol station if you want to be an ethical motorist. Photograph: MBI /Alamy

Lucy Siegle: The Observer, Sunday 17 November 2013

If ever there was a “What’s your poison?” dilemma, this is it. First, history: Shell in Nigeria, Total in Burma… No brand gets off lightly, but Exxon (merged with Mobil in 1999 to make the world’s largest oil company) is famous for its campaign to de-legitimise climate science, not least by funding the influential US lobbying group Global Climate Coalition (GCC).

Until the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe – the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico – BP had a better reputation. It withdrew from the GCC in 1996, accepted climate change in 1997, and spent the early 2000s investing in solar. Elf Aquitaine (later merged with Total) never contested climate change, but arguably hasn’t done much to help the planet either. read more

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Greenpeace World Protesters from Presidents, Hollywood Stars and Activists

Nov 17th, 2013
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Across the world, Greenpeace activists from all backgrounds are coming out including protesters at Shell gas stations, Hollywood elite stars and even presidents. The goal is to gather awareness and call for the release of the Arctic 30: the 28 activists and two journalists imprisoned in Russia. The Arctic 30 are being charged with piracy for their protest held at an oil rig in Russia.

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Las Vegas Guardian Express: By Cayce Manesiotis on November 16, 2013.

Saturday, U.K. protesters were staged at Shell gas stations. This was a response to the news that Shell will embark with the Russian oil company, Gazprom, in Arctic shore drilling. The Shell gas station protesters gathered signatures for their petitioning of Shell to pull out of the Arctic endeavor with Gazprom.

The activists handed letters to Shell gas station managers, which outlined the Arctic 30’s arrest, their charges and how Greenpeace is against Arctic drilling given the disastrous risk to climate change. The Greenpeace coordinator in south London said Gazprom “were key in the locking up of 30 of our volunteers” and noted they asked for their arrest. read more

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Qatar Shell hosts reception for global CEO

Nov 17th, 2013
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Qatar Shell hosted a reception at The St Regis Doha last week to bid farewell to Royal Dutch Shell CEO Peter Voser, who is to retire from the company at the end of March 2014 after 29 years of service. The reception also welcomed the new CEO-designate, Ben van Beurden, who will take over from Voser on January 1, 2014.

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HE Sheikha al-Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, HE Abdullah bin Hamad al-Attiyah, HE Dr Mohamed bin Saleh al-Sada and other dignitaries during the event.

Qatar Shell hosted a reception at The St Regis Doha last week to bid farewell to Royal Dutch Shell CEO Peter Voser, who is to retire from the company at the end of March 2014 after 29 years of service. The reception also welcomed the new CEO-designate, Ben van Beurden, who will take over from Voser on January 1, 2014.

Van Beurden has worked for Shell’s upstream and downstream businesses in Europe, Africa, Asia and the United States. The event was hosted by Wael Sawan, managing director and chairman of Qatar Shell. read more

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Shell rethinking its Pa. cracker plans

Nov 17th, 2013
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By Linda Harris, Legal Reporter – email: Nov 15, 2013

Royal Dutch Shell is rethinking its plans for an ethane cracker in Western Pennsylvania and two other cash-intensive projects, leaving business leaders in the Mountain State to wonder if the spin-off economic growth they’ve been anticipating is ever going to come.

Shell CEO Peter Voser told analysts the company can’t afford to do the cracker in Pennsylvania plus a gas-to-liquids plant in Louisiana and a liquid natural gas plant in Canada. Voser said in the near future, the company will have to decide which of the three signature projects to give the green light. read more

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Supermajordämmerung

Nov 16th, 2013
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SHELL, DRIVEN TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH

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The day of the huge integrated international oil company is drawing to a close

In the 1950s the seven sisters controlled some 85% of global reserves. Today over 90% of reserves are under the control of national oil companies (NOCs) which are owned, at least in part, by the governments sitting on the oil in question.

As well as missing some good opportunities, the supermajors seem to be pursuing some dubious ones. Shell’s misfiring attempts to explore the Arctic, now abandoned until 2014 after damage to vital equipment, look like an extreme example of lack of choice. read more

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London wide Greenpeace protest

Nov 16th, 2013
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Greenpeace supporters will hold protests at over 70 Shell petrol stations across the country in support of the ‘Arctic 30’ today. It comes as Russian officials have signaled they will ask that the Greenpeace group be detained an extra 3 months – meaning they could be behind bars over Christmas.

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Sat 16 Nov 2013

Greenpeace supporters will hold protests at over 70 Shell petrol stations across the country in support of the ‘Arctic 30’ today.

It comes as Russian officials have signaled they will ask that the Greenpeace group be detained an extra 3 months – meaning they could be behind bars over Christmas.

Activists will be asking bystanders to sign a petition asking Shell to pull out of their joint oil drilling venture with Gazprom.

Protests will take place across Shell’s petrol stations in London, including: Bayswater, Holloway Road, Old Street, Southwark, Whitechapel, Grosvenor Road, Lewisham, Richmond Road and Staines Road. read more

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They’re Backkkk…

Nov 16th, 2013
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Screen Shot 2013-01-11 at 20.09.51After a series of calamities in Shell Oil Company’s 2012 Arctic drilling program, which included having its oil spill containment dome “crushed like a beer can” (BOEM officials words, not mine), having its drilling rig the Noble Discoverer slip an anchor (and at another point in time catch fire), and ending the season by losing control of its other drilling rig, the Kulluk, which ran aground off the coast of Alaska’s Kodiak Island, many questioned whether or not Shell would be back in the Arctic.

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Cindy Shogan

Executive director, Alaska Wilderness League: Posted 11/15/2013

After a series of calamities in Shell Oil Company’s 2012 Arctic drilling program, which included having its oil spill containment dome “crushed like a beer can” (BOEM officials words, not mine), having its drilling rig the Noble Discoverer slip an anchor (and at another point in time catch fire), and ending the season by losing control of its other drilling rig, the Kulluk, which ran aground off the coast of Alaska’s Kodiak Island, many questioned whether or not Shell would be back in the Arctic. read more

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Shell’s LNG-Producing Monster Ship, Prelude

Nov 16th, 2013
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On Geoje Island, off the coast of South Korea, as many as 5,000 workers have been building the largest vessel ever constructed. With a deck the size of seven football fields and containing three times as much steel as the Golden Gate Bridge, the Prelude will spend years anchored above a natural gas field off Australia, pumping fuel from under the seabed and turning it into a liquid that can be shipped to Asian customers.

Led by Royal Dutch Shell (RDS/A), the project could transform the global gas industry. Until now, liquefied natural gas projects, which chill the fuel until it turns into a liquid that can be transported on tankers, have relied on giant onshore plants. Putting an LNG facility on top of a ship will open up dozens of fields once considered too remote or too small to be viable. “It’s a very crucial technology,” says Shell Chief Executive Officer Peter Voser, who rates approving the project as the single most important decision he’s made while running the Anglo-Dutch company. “This will be a solution that works for many, many fields.” read more

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Platts System Could Be ‘Prone’ to Collusion, EU Official Says

Nov 14th, 2013
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Screen Shot 2013-05-17 at 01.06.41Platts’s oil-price reporting system “could be prone to collusion or distortion,” according to the European Union official in charge of the benchmark probe that led to raids on the premises of BP Plc, Royal Dutch Shell Plc and Statoil ASA. The EU probe is still examining two areas of concern — abuse of dominance and unlawful collusion, Gauer said.

By Gaspard Sebag November 14, 2013

Platts’s oil-price reporting system “could be prone to collusion or distortion,” according to the European Union official in charge of the benchmark probe that led to raids on the premises of BP Plc (BP/), Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSA) and Statoil ASA. (STL)

“The mere set up could be prone to collusion or distortion because it doesn’t take much to basically have strange reporting” by companies that participate in the pricing system, Celine Gauer, director at the European Commission’s antitrust unit for the energy industry, said today at a conference in Brussels. read more

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FREE BOOZE SUPPLIER SHELL

Nov 14th, 2013
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The OSSL email barrage seeking recovery from Shell of tens of thousands of euros allegedly spent by OSSL purchasing and supplying free booze to Irish cops on Shell’s behalf continues…

OSSL EMAIL TO SHELL, THE GARDA, AND ROADBRIDGE

From: THE OSSL COMPANY <[email protected]>
Subject: Message number 289 ……two hundred and eighty nine ….all unanswered !!!!!!!!
Date: 14 November 2013 13:11:22 GMT
To: [email protected], Commissioner <[email protected]>, Thomas Murphy <[email protected]>, [email protected], Michael Crothers <[email protected]>, Michiel Brandjes <[email protected]>, “<[email protected]>” <[email protected]>, Peter Voser <[email protected]>, [email protected], John Shell News <[email protected]> read more

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Shell Said to Seek $6 Billion Credit Line Amid Lower Loan Costs

Nov 14th, 2013
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Jonathan French, a London-based spokesman for Shell, confirmed the company’s existing credit line expires in 2015. He declined to comment on the new debt facility.

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By Stephen Morris November 14, 2013

Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSA) is seeking a $6 billion credit line to replace an existing loan as banks cut borrowing costs for Europe’s largest companies to the lowest in more than five years.

Europe’s largest oil and gas producer is offering to pay an interest margin of 12.5 basis points, or 0.125 percentage point, more than the benchmark rates on the five-year loan, according to three people with knowledge of the matter, who asked not to be identified because the terms are private. Barclays Plc is helping to arrange the financing for the company based in The Hague. read more

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Costs threaten $20bn LNG plant

Nov 14th, 2013
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by: MATT CHAMBERS: From: The Australian: November 15, 2013 read more

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Why I May Sell Royal Dutch Shell Plc Today

Nov 14th, 2013
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This Is Why I May Sell Royal Dutch Shell Plc Today

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Royal Dutch Shell Plc (LON:RDSB) has become a chronic underperformer. Roland Head highlights some worrying figures and explains why he may head for the exit.

Royal Dutch Shell (LSE: RDSB) (NYSE: RDS-B.US) is one of the longest-serving shares in my ISA portfolio. Over the last five years, it’s boasted an average dividend yield of 5.2%, and although annual dividend growth has only averaged 3.6%, it has been a good source of income.

Despite this, I’m starting to tire of Shell’s underperforming ways, and am wondering whether the firm is an oversized dog that has had its day. Should I cut it loose, and find a smaller, more focused business to invest in? read more

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Shell Is Working on ‘Promising’ Renewable Technology, Voser Says

Nov 14th, 2013
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By Eduard Gismatullin – Nov 13, 2013 10:38 AM GMT

The following are excerpts from an interview with Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSA) Chief Executive Officer Peter Voser at the company’s headquarters in The Hague.

Voser, who has headed Europe’s largest oil and gas producer since 2009, steps down at the end of the year, 31 years after first joining the company.

On Shell and renewable energy:

“It would be stupid from the oil and gas industry to say that renewables will not play a major role in the energy system of the next few decades. read more

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