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Companies with poor track records on environmental damage try for change
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Trouble in the pipeline for Grey Whales
Sakhalin, Russia - The fate of the worlds few remaining Western Grey Whales now rests on the outcome of appeals to Russian authorities and courts following the refusal of an oil consortium to consider alternatives to a proposal to lay an oil pipeline through a shallow lagoon crucial to the whales food supplies.
Shell plots $1.2bn Regal takeover bid
Royal Dutch Shell, Europe's largest energy company, has proposed a $1.2bn (£600m) takeover of Regal Petroleum, the oil and gas explorer trying to recover from a controversial past under former chief executive Frank Timis.
Shell in talks on Urals Energy field unit – report
Shell has been trying to improve its position in Russia, after it had to cede control of major offshore project Sakhalin-2 to state-controlled Gazprom last year. Shell now owns 27.5 percent of Sakhalin-2, which is on the Russian Pacific island of the same name.
Shell to take big stake in Sibir by year-end -paper
Shell has been trying to improve its position in Russia, after it had to cede control in major offshore project Sakhalin 2 to state-controlled Gazprom last year. Shell now owns 27.5 percent of Sakhalin 2.
Talks over News Corp offshoot may create world’s biggest billboard firm
Its rival, Shell, meanwhile, eventually handed a large share of its Sakhalin gasfield business to the state-owned Gazprom after destabilising criticism from regulators.
Law society warning over Russia’s ‘state-sponsored intimidation’
Hermitage's problems are likely to add to pressure on Russia after apparent political interference at TNK-BP and Royal Dutch Shell's Sakhalin 2 gas project.
Kremlin attack dog who hounded Shell out of its controlling stake in Sakhalin-2 has been dismissed
RIA Novosti
Deputy head of Russian environmental watchdog dismissed
"Kremlin attack dog" Oleg Mitvol
20:55|09/ 09/ 2008
MOSCOW, September 9 (RIA Novosti) – A plaque bearing the name of Oleg Mitvol has been removed from the door of his office at the Russian environmental watchdog, the out-of-favor deputy head of Rosprirodnadzor told RIA Novosti on Tuesday.
Mitvol said the deputy natural resources minister, Semyon Levi, signed an order Tuesday on his dismissal due to personnel cuts, but failed to hand him the document.
Mitvol said the document was signed in the absence of Minister Yury Trutnev, who on Tuesday told journalists in Irkutsk that he hoped the conflict between Mitvol and his boss, Vladimir Kirillov, would be resolved.
Tobacco: Russian regulator launches legal action against BAT
Shell handed over a large share of its Sakhalin gas field business to the state-owned Gazprom after destabilising criticism from regulators.
Oil groups face capital stagnation in spite of price rises
Big oil companies' prospects have for years been overshadowed by their problems in getting access to resources to enable them to grow. If the oil price keeps falling, and the squeeze on profits continues, the pressure for change could be enough to prompt another round of restructuring.
Shell comes under fire for role in Sakhalin audit
Email exchanges spanning three months and 40 pages show how officials at Shell sought to downplay the significance of a critical Russian environmental audit by persuading AEA to disperse its findings through the report, rather than leaving them in one potentially damning appendix
Been Riding the Russian Boom? Its Time to Cash In Your Chips
Royal Dutch Shell was pressured last year into selling local investments at a bargain price to Russian interests.
Moscow transforms real-world game of RISK
For BP, the Russian invasion of Georgia could turn into a nightmare...
LNG Price May Gain 80% as Plant Delays, Export Cuts Curb Supply
The BP Plc-led Tangguh venture in Indonesia, the OAO Gazprom-led Sakhalin-2 project in eastern Russia and a Total SA- led development in Yemen may start in 2009 instead of this year, said Frank Harris, global head of LNG at Wood Mackenzie.
Big Oil’s Russian Retreat
BP's difficulties in Russia follow the stripping of Royal Dutch Shell from its position as operator at Sakhalin Island a year and a half ago. Most of Shell's assets were sold under duress to Russia's giant natural gas company Gazprom.
China, India Vie for Russian Oil
Russia's oil and gas fields have proved treacherous for other foreign investors. When Royal Dutch Shell PLC announced that costs at the Sakhalin-2 project had nearly doubled, Russian environmental regulators bombarded it with complaints until Shell sold a majority stake in the project to a Kremlin-run gas company in 2006.
