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Oil And Coal Firms Guilty Of ‘Great Deception’ Through Greenwashing, Say Climate Lawyers
A team of U.K. lawyers today released what they say is new evidence showing that the world’s biggest fossil fuel companies are systematically “greenwashing” their image to make the public believe they are taking concrete steps to combat climate change. In reality, the lawyers say, the firms are committed to increasing the sale of fossil fuels, which will inevitably generate more greenhouse gas emissions.
Extracts from a Shell Energy customer review posted on Trustpilot: “I don’t normally write reviews but this useless excuse for a company means I must warn others. Shell oil company is a well respected firm so naturally when I seen they were moving into domestic energy supply I thought. Must be ok.”: From start to finish the move has been a nightmare.”: No one to talk to. You’ll get a call back. No call back. I call back. It’s with a special team. They’ll call you back. No call back.”: ” While Shell are still trying to figure out what’s going on. I’ve already moved on.”: “AVOID AVOID AVOID AT ALL COSTS”
London museum under fire over climate exhibit sponsored by Shell
“It beggars belief that this iconic British institution has freely chosen to link up with Shell … at such a crucial time,” Bill McGuire, professor emeritus of geophysical and climate hazards at University College London, said in a statement.
By Umberto Bacchi, Thomson Reuters Foundation: APRIL 16, 2021
April 16 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – London’s Science Museum came under fire on Friday for having oil and gas major Royal Dutch Shell as a sponsor of an upcoming exhibition on climate change, a move described by environmental groups as “out-of-step”.
Shell plays down risk of stranded oil and gas reserves
The disclosure is a rare admission by a major oil and gas company that some of its reserves may be worthless in a world shifting to renewable energy from fossil fuels in an effort to stem global warming.
The Anglo-Dutch company said in a document to investors summarising its climate strategy that around 75% of its proved oil and gas reserves will be produced by 2030, with an additional 3% produced after 2040.
Since late 2019, Shell has wiped out over $20 billion from the value of its oil and gas reserves after lowering the outlook for commodity prices because of the energy transition and the impact on demand of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Nigeria: OPL 245 – Eni Threatens Legal Action Against Heda, Others for Defamation
By Peter Uzoho: April 14, 2021
The Italian oil major, Eni, has threatened to take legal action against the Human and Environmental Development Agenda (HEDA) and other critics for allegedly defaming the company over the Milan Court’s ruling on the Oil Prospecting Lease (OPL) 245 case.
Eni, in a statement that was issued yesterday in Abuja, said it found it shocking and contrary to any principle of law that the HEDA had ignored all the facts in the Milan judgment and went about defaming the organisation, its management and the Italian Court.
Extracts from Shell Energy customer reviews posted on Trustpilot: “Internet that doesn’t work at all. Called up to get it fixed and threatened with a £65 engineer charge.”: “Horrible company avoid!”: “…cheats and swindlers and not fit for purpose.”
Featured below are extracts from negative customer reviews about Shell Energy posted in the last 24 hours on Trustpilot. Visit the Shell Energy page on Trustpilot to view all reviews in their entirety, positive and negative (and Shell Energy responses). Watch out for any fake reviews. Note the reoccurring themes in the negative reviews, including difficulty in communicating with the company. This article posted on 15 April 2021.
Gazprom, Shell ink strategic cooperation agreement
The agreement was signed in the videoconference mode in presence of chief executive officers of Gazprom and Shell
MOSCOW, March 16. /TASS/. Gazprom and Shell concluded the agreement on strategic cooperation for the term of five years on March 16, the Russian gas holding says on Tuesday.
“Particular attention will be paid, for instance, to such areas as studies of energy market, implementation of projects throughout the value creation chain, and cooperation in the sphere of digital development of technologies and reduction of greenhouse gas emissions,” Gazprom says.
Extract from Shell Energy customer review posted on Trustpilot today: “I have tried to call Customer Services 3 times and have so far been on hold for 46 minutes, 28 and 34 minutes respectively without actually speaking to anyone. Not sure what else to do, when they don’t answer the questions from our emails and I can’t get through to anyone to speak to them. Any ideas anyone?”
Featured below are extracts from negative customer reviews about Shell Energy posted in the last 24 hours on Trustpilot. Visit the Shell Energy page on Trustpilot to view all reviews in their entirety, positive and negative (and Shell Energy responses). Watch out for any fake reviews. Note the reoccurring themes in the negative reviews, including difficulty in communicating with the company. This article posted on 13 April 2021.
Ensure Shell, Eni Face Prosecution In Nigeria, Group Tells Buhari
Eni and Shell have been dragged to court in Milan, Italy over alleged cases of corruption in relation to the OPL245.
BY SAHARAREPORTERS, NEW YORK APR 12, 2021
An anti-corruption group, Human and Environmental Development Agenda, (HEDA Resource Centre) has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to ensure the oil giants, Shell and Eni, face prosecution in Nigeria.
The group, in a letter addressed to Buhari, advised the President to ignore public statements by the oil company, Eni, that the trial the company had faced in Italy should substitute for any other possible legal action in Nigeria.
Fossil fuel multinational Shell does not believe it will ever pay the Australian government a cent in resource taxes for the gas it draws from the country’s biggest gas project, Gorgon.
The projection about taxes on the gas, which is likely to be sold for billions of dollars a year, is contained in the company’s latest annual report, released last month, and was first reported by energy news website Boilingcold.
It covers both Gorgon – a project off the West Australian coast that when fully operational is expected to provide 15.6m tonnes of gas a year – and Shell’s smaller Prelude project, a floating gas facility that also sits off WA.
Future of Brent Oil Platform’s Giant Legs Remains Uncertain
Laura Hurst: 09 April 2021
(Bloomberg) — The U.K. government is still undecided on whether it will allow Royal Dutch Shell Plc to leave in the sea the giant concrete legs that once supported the iconic Brent oil platforms.
Shell has asked for permission to leave the columns — each almost as tall as the Eiffel Tower and together weighing around 1 million tons — jutting from the water because it says removing them would pose a greater environmental risk. A government decision on the matter, which was last due in September, has dragged.
Extracts from Shell Energy customer reviews posted on Trustpilot in the last 48 hours: “Terrible customer service, rude agents, poor communication”: “support/online chat is a complete joke. Worst provider EVER!”: “The most terrible Energy company in the UK. Please stay away from SHELL ENERGY.”: Broadband from shell has been atrocious. It simply does not work.”
Featured below are extracts from negative customer reviews about Shell Energy posted in the last 48 days on Trustpilot. Visit the Shell Energy page on Trustpilot to view all reviews in their entirety, positive and negative (and Shell Energy responses). Watch out for any fake reviews. Note the reoccurring themes in the negative reviews, including difficulty in communicating with the company. This article posted on 09 April 2021.
Shell threatens to leave US trade groups over climate disagreements
Shell admits its oil production is now on the decline
Paul Takahashi,
European oil major Royal Dutch Shell on Wednesday urged U.S. oil and gas trade groups to take stronger positions in the fight against climate change under the threat of leaving them.
The Netherlands-based oil major took aim at the American Petroleum Institute, the Texas Oil & Gas Association and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, pushing them to support and advocate for climate policies in line with the Paris climate agreement. The 2015 agreement aims to limit the rise in the average global temperature to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.
Shell’s move reassessing its trade group memberships comes as the European oil giant moves from its longtime fossil fuels business to meet its goal of achieving net-zero emissions by 2050.
Drumcliffe’s involvement in the OPL 245 case
A new side to the OPL 245 case has emerged in the state of Delaware, which has the most lenient corporate laws in the United States.
According to open and undisputed sources , the federal government of Nigeria commissioned the Lagos-based law firm Johnson & Johnson, whose principal partner is Babatunde Olabide Johnson, to represent it in the lawsuit filed against Eni and Shell in Italy and other countries. Johnson & Johnson is reported to have drawn up an agreement for the covering of legal costs with the American firm Poplar Falls, founded in 2016 in Delaware by Maryland-based offshore fund Drumcliffe Partners, which specialises in financing lawsuits for debt recovery.
Extracts from Shell Energy customer reviews posted on Trustpilot in the last few days: “They upped my 86 year old mother-in-law’s direct debit from £80 per month to £350 per month. She didn’t notice until bank account went into the red. I’ve now provided up to date meter readings confirming she has been overbilled by more than £1000 but they are refusing to refund her until the next billing cycle.”
Featured below are extracts from negative customer reviews about Shell Energy posted in the last few days on Trustpilot. Visit the Shell Energy page on Trustpilot to view all reviews in their entirety, positive and negative (and Shell Energy responses). Watch out for any fake reviews. Note the reoccurring themes in the negative reviews, including difficulty in communicating with the company. This article posted on 07 April 2021.
Iraq Moves To Exploit Its Massive Natural Gas Reserves
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…that said, it has made some progress in developing gas resources, most notably in 2019/2020 when the US$17 billion 25-year Basra Gas Company (BGC) project with Royal Dutch Shell…
The original design plans for Nebras – formulated between Shell and the Iraq Oil Ministry and Ministry of Industry and Minerals – were for a project that could produce at least 1.8 million metric tonnes per year (mtpy) of various petrochemicals.
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: It's all in the ground Simon! https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/shell-exxon-look-to-profit-from-capturing-customers-carbon-emissions-11618824602
: ON HOW TO REVAMP NIGERIA’S UPSTREAM AND DOWNSTREAM OIL & GAS SECTOR With recent reports that the President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Executive Council (FEC) had approved a whopping $1.5 billion to rehabilitate the epileptic Port Harcourt refinery, I consider it a national tragedy and a shame of a nation that Nigeria, despite its over fifty decades of oil and gas exploration and production activities, has been exporting its hugely produced crude oil and natural gas at commercial quantity, and then import ‘refined petroleum products’ at higher costs to satisfy domestic demands. The said move, according to the government, is to ensure that the obsolete Port-Harcourt refinery, which last benefitted from a Turn-Around Maintenance (TAM) work in 2000, comes back to life, while also supposedly contributing to the development of Nigeria’s oil sector. We Mobilize Others To Fight For Individual Causes As If Those Were Our Causes https://ndpc-zik.org/publications/on-who-to-revamp-nigeria-upstream-and-downstream-oil-and-gas-sector COMPLETE COMMENTS
: "Under the Hammer", again!https://www.reuters.com/article/us-tunisia-oil/tunisia-faces-exodus-of-western-oil-giants-idUSKBN2BI1XF
: Serica finally kicks-off development on Columbus, years after BG 'kicked them in the teeth'. https://www.upstreamonline.com/field-development/serica-energy-kicks-off-development-drilling-at-north-sea-field/2-1-982427
: https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/3/48093/Shell-to-develop-Phase-9B-of-WDDM-within-2-months
: I have mentioned before how the contaminated produced water from Shell's Western Delta Deep Marine gas fields, acquired during the takeover of BG Group, used to be tankered and dumped in the desert.Khaled Gad, Shell's Onshore and Offshore Asset Manager in Egypt, should be able to answer the question as to what now happens to the produced water from Shell's assets in Egypt.
: Selling off parts of the BG millstone. See: https://www.upstreamonline.com/lng/shell-completes-2-5bn-australian-lng-asset-sale/2-1-980042
: Further to Bogus Group's post, very little at BG Group was proven. The majority of their work was of low integrity and dissolved at the slightest scrutiny. This was to be expected with a 'do as I say, not do as I do' Line Management.
: https://trinidadexpress.com/business/local/shell-takes-biggest-hit/article_ca33aea4-73d5-11eb-8a6e-ff41b564d669.html It's surely been proven that BG proven reserves were not actually proven and that Shell did inherit a 'pig in the poke'. The statement “Our preference is to deal with these arrangements, not in a clandestine way but there is a deeper confidentiality to it. We have these arrangements all over the world. We need to ensure that we maintain a degree of confidentiality but what I will confirm is that hundreds of millions of US dollars converts to billions of TT dollars and we have confirmed that Trinidad will benefit to billions,”beggars belief.
: It is not clear why the once upon a time VP Developments, Brazil is now VP Subsurface Excellence, given that the Brazil Asset under her stewardship spent at least five years down a giant rabbit hole using a corrupt workflow that resulted in a significant overbooking of reserves.
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