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Shell Allowed to Restart Drilling Off French Guiana

by  Dow Jones Newswires: Wednesday, June 20, 2012

PARIS – Royal Dutch Shell PLC will soon be allowed to resume oil exploration off the coast of French Guiana, lawmakers from the overseas French department said Wednesday.

The exploration “will be allowed to restart,” probably on Monday, said a lawmaker after a meeting with the French minister for the overseas departments, Victorin Lurel.

Two other lawmakers, Georges Patient and Chantal Berthelot, confirmed that Guiana has been given “the authorization to sign off” on the permits greenlighting the relaunch of the project. read more

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Shell oil exploration off Guiana stalled -Le Monde

PARIS, June 13 | Wed Jun 13, 2012 8:45am EDT

(Reuters) – The French government has put on hold plans by Royal Dutch Shell to drill for oil in four exploratory sites off the coast of French Guiana while it carries out a review of how permits are awarded, Le Monde newspaper said on Wednesday.

Shell had been expecting to receive authorisation on Thursday to begin looking for oil in the sites 150 kilometres off the coast of the French overseas territory, the paper said.

Instead, it will have to wait for an “in-depth and general” study to be carried out into the issuing of oil permits, the paper quoted the French ecology and energy ministry as saying. read more

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