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View Article  BBC News: EU fines cartel over bitumen fix (with Shell getting the largest penalty of $137m)
“The fines for Shell were the highest because it was a repeat offender and because it played a leading role in the cartel,” said the Commission’s spokesman Jonathan Todd.   more »
View Article  BBC Monitoring Service: Nigeria: Oil firms accused of "mass murder" of Niger Delta negotiators

Published: Sep 03, 2006

Text of report by Chido Okafor entitled "Ijaw Buries Negotiators, Warns Oil Firms" published Nigerian newspaper ...   more »

View Article  BBC Monitoring Service: Summary of Russian press for Monday 28 Aug 06

Posted by Royal Dutch Shell Plc.com at August 28th, 2006

Published: Aug 28, 2006

3. Denis Rebrov article saying that ...   more »

View Article  “Live Chat” Comment on BBC News story: Shell announces new £25m centre
Guest 57: McFadyen always claimed to be a fighter of overheads.  “I am a welder from Glasgow”. Now it has ...   more »
View Article  BBC News: BP has avoided going to court over pipeline project

Oil giant BP has agreed an out-of-court settlement with a group of Colombian farmers over a pipeline it built.

The ...   more »

View Article  BBC News: Oil giant Shell has announced plans for a new £25m “centre of excellence” in Aberdeen to show its commitment to the North Sea.
Shell’s European technical vice-president Kieron McFadyen said: “This is excellent news for Shell, excellent news for the city and excellent news for the oil and gas industry.   more »
View Article  BBC NEWS: BP shuts down 12 Alaska oil wells
BP has shut 12 producing wells at its Alaskan operations after workers told the Financial Times the wells were leaking oil or diesel insulating agent. The British oil firm said they had been shut while the allegations were being investigated.   more »
View Article  BBC NEWS: Shell criticised over oil deaths
He also criticises Shell for failing to assess the consequences of starting up the platform in August 2003 in the knowledge that an emergency shutdown valve had failed. And he says the accident could have been avoided if the temporary repair had been appropriate and properly managed.   more »
View Article  Royal Dutch Shell Plc .com: Unofficial transcript of BBC Radio - Brent Bravo/Bill Campbell interview
Bill Campbell had discovered a culture where safety procedures were being broken or ignored. Vital maintenance work wasn’t being done in case production had to be halted. And rig managers were lying to cover it up.    more »
View Article  BBC NEWS: Duma approves Gazprom export bill
A bill confirming state-owned gas giant Gazprom's monopoly of exports has been approved by Russia's lower house of parliament, the Duma.    more »
View Article  BBC NEWS: The rocky road to oil riches
Colorado, America's "Centennial State", is home to four-and-a-half million people, lots of cattle, and potentially the world's biggest reserves of oil.   more »
View Article  BBC News: Shell 'ignored accident warning'
Shell was later fined £900,000 after admitting health and safety breaches, including failing to carry out a risk assessment on the platform. : "If Shell, in 1999, had listened to what he said and taken action then, then the two guys wouldn't have died."    more »
View Article  BBC Monitoring Service: Shell to invest at least 100m dollars in Ukrainian oil fields
According to the document, which was signed during a meeting between Yushchenko and Shell representatives in the Hague, Shell will invest 100m dollars in the project at the first stage, the agency said.   more »
View Article  BBC News: Russia looks at oil control move
Russia is floating the idea of taking majority control of three oil projects in Siberia owned by Western firms Shell, ExxonMobil and Total.    more »
View Article  JURIST (USA): Royal Dutch Shell misses court deadline to pay $1.5 billion for Nigeria pollution
The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta [BBC report], a militant group whose attacks have reduced the flow of oil from Nigeria by 20 percent this year, has demanded that Shell pay the Ijaw.    more »
View Article  BBC Monitoring Service:
A federal high court sitting in Port Harcourt Rivers State [Niger Delta] has ordered Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) to pay the sum of 1.5bn dollars to the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), latest by 12 midday [local time] on Monday [22 May]... "We have over 1,850 documented deaths linked to the exploration and exploitation activities of the oil company.   more »
View Article  BBC NEWS: Shell sued by oil death partner
The partner of a man who died on a North Sea oil platform is seeking £800,000 in damages. Shell has already been fined £900,000 and the result of a fatal accident inquiry is also due soon.    more »
View Article  BBC News: Petrol firm suspends chip-and-pin
The Association of Payment Clearing Services (Apacs) said the fraud related to just one petrol chain. Shell said it hoped to reintroduce chip-and-pin as soon as possible.    more »
View Article  BBC NEWS: Net censorship spreads worldwide
Repressive regimes are taking full advantage of the net's ability to censor and stifle reform and debate, reveals a report. However, noted the report, governments have woken up to the fact that the people they regard as dissidents are active online. Many are now moving to censor blogs and the last year has seen many committed bloggers jailed for what they said in their online journal.    more »
View Article  BBC NEWS: Local protestors delay gas development on the west coast of Ireland
In County Mayo a number of locals were imprisoned as a result of their opposition to an onshore pipeline Shell wishes to build as part of this project. The group have now been freed, but are still trying to prevent the work from going ahead.   more »
View Article  BBC Monitoring Service: Nigeria: Ogoni rights group accuses oil giant Shell of breaching peace talks
In a statement last Thursday, Shell's management accused irate Ogoni youths of attacking 13 of its staff, who went on inspection of its oil wells in Ogoni, to assess their integrity preparatory to securing them. The management explained that its workers went to clean up the spills caused by the rupture of the company's pipeline at Bomu Well-2 but that the team's vehicles and equipment were also seized.   more »
View Article  BBC Monitoring Service: Nigerian military confirms 30 March clash with Niger-Delta separatists
The clashes took place near a petrol production plant belonging to the Shell [oil] firm. The station had earlier sustained damages in previous fighting that was quite violent.   more »
View Article  BBC NEWS: Trading on your reputation
For companies as much as for individuals, it can be a slow, hard job to convince the world that you're safe to talk to, deal with or rely on. Then - in the blink of an eye - a chance event, or a misjudgement, can rip your reputation to shreds. And once gone, rebuilding it can sometimes be impossible. No wonder, then, that the number of people managing reputational risk is mushrooming.    more »
View Article  BBC NEWS: Putin hints at China oil pipeline
Russian President Vladimir Putin has said a pipeline carrying Siberian oil could be built through China.    more »