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View Article  The Times: Western oil companies keep nervous eye on Yukos case: ‘If Shell were forced out of Russia…’
If Shell were forced out of Russia, it could follow Yukos’s example and claim compensation for the loss of its investment.   more »
View Article  The Times: Putin takes hard line on Shell Sakhalin dispute… ominious twist last night

September 28, 2006
From Tony Halpin in Moscow
 
RUSSIA’S dispute with Shell over the future of the Sakhalin-2 project ...   more »

View Article  The Times: EBRD delays verdict on Sakhalin funding

By Carl Mortished, International Business Editor
 
POLITICAL turmoil surrounding Shell’s Sakhalin-2 gas project has forced the European Bank for ...   more »

View Article  The Times: Oil giants in legal row with Russia over joint projects

September 22, 2006
From Julian Evans in Moscow
 
RUSSIA and a group of oil multinationals have begun drawing the ...   more »

View Article  The Times: Oil giants including Royal Dutch Shell Plc line up for exploration auction in India
THE world’s largest oil multinationals, including BP, Shell and ExxonMobil, are among a throng of investors seeking rights to explore for oil and gas on India’s continental shelf.    more »
View Article  The Times: Stop Press: Firms fined for fixing bitumen prices (including a €108 million penalty for Shell)
September 14, 2006 
 
Europe’s top antitrust authority fined 14 companies a total of €266.7 million (£180 million), including a ...   more »
View Article  The Times (City Diary): Royal Dutch Shell Plc: Nothing against Ivan Fedorchenko

(Sakhalin Island is not for the faint-hearted. The extreme Arctic conditions give an average winter temperature in the north of ...   more »

View Article  The Times: Oil firms pile into bidding for rights in India

September 06, 2006
By David Robertson
 
THE world’s big oil companies are “going crazy” bidding for the rights to ...   more »

View Article  Times Online: Russia tries to shut down Shell gas field

By Michael Herman and Agencies in Moscow
 
The Russian environmental watchdog today launched a legal challenge to halt construction ...   more »

View Article  The Times: BP offered $10 million donation to settle claim

By Carl Mortished, International Business Editor
 
BP has been accused of making an unethical inducement to settle a personal ...   more »

View Article  The Times: Former Shell chief is pleased but he may sue his accusers
THE world’s leading financial regulators have concluded that nobody is to blame for Shell’s overstatement of its oil reserves, after the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) dropped its investigation of Sir Philip Watts.   more »
View Article  The Times: Problems arise when tails are counted as legs
THE worst scandal to hit Shell in its 170-year history came out of the blue one January morning in 2004.   more »
View Article  The Times: Staff and rigs shortages put oil firms over barrel

August 26, 2006

By David Robertson
 
A CRITICAL shortage of skilled workers and of drilling equipment is preventing the ...   more »

View Article  The Times: Bumper year for City as bonuses soar 16%
At the same time profits are rising at major British companies such as BP, Shell and Tesco, leading to big payouts for directors.    more »
View Article  The Times: Oil groups failing key North Sea safety tests
However, Shell set aside $1 billion (£530 million) to upgrade its North Sea platforms after an accident at Brent Bravo in 2003. Two men died in a massive gas leak as they inspected a repair to a rusting pipe. The company later decided that a significant investment was necessary.   more »
View Article  The Times: BP is cautious because it can afford to be (”mirror image of Shell’s discomfort in the North Sea”)

EXTRACT: BP’s American troubles are almost a mirror image of Shell’s discomfort in the North Sea, where years of penny-pinching ...   more »

View Article  The Times: Giant's valuation slides to second place after leak in Prudhoe Bay

By Carl Mortished and Tom Baldwin
 
FEARS that BP’s Prudhoe Bay production stoppage could extend for several months sent ...   more »

View Article  The Times: Unions call for manslaughter law after Shell deaths inquiry
Concern about North Sea safety and the condition of rusting platforms grew last month when Bill Campbell, a former Shell engineer, revealed details of a platform safety maintenance review done in 1999 on Brent Bravo. His audit team found widespread violations of safety procedures and alleged falsification of records.    more »
View Article  The Times: Stop Press: Shell weighs sale of Dominican assets
Shell weighs sale of Dominican assets   more »
View Article  The Times: Prophetic Times: Sakhalin cost overuns and delays
That would be the same Sakhalin, off the east coast of Russia, where Shell has recently admitted to cost overruns and delays on its gas project.    more »
View Article  The Times: Big Shot: Maarten van den Bergh
Comment by ShellNews.net: the Times article neglects to mention that this Shell big shot is a named defendant in a multi-billion dollar global class action lawsuit in respect of the Shell reserves fraud. He is another sleazy discredited Shell director (along with Jeroen van der Veer and Malcolm Brinded) guilty of turning a blind eye to corrupt practices and other serious misdeeds at Shell.   more »
View Article  The Times: Costs explode at Shell Canadian venture
SHELL is facing a cost explosion in the expansion of the Athabasca Oil Sands Project, a mining venture that extracts oil from bitumen deposits in the Canadian province of Alberta.   more »
View Article  Royal Dutch Shell Plc .com: UK shows Europe the way to go in wealth creation
From The Times: The report contains a value added scoreboard, topped by Shell and BP, which it lists as having generated £31.6 billion and £26.8 billion of new wealth respectively in the past year.    more »
View Article  Royal Dutch Shell Plc .com: Rosneft reportedly asks Shell to invest $1 billion
From Times Online: July 01, 2006: Natural resources: Need to Know; Royal Dutch Shell & Rosneft   more »
View Article  Royal Dutch Shell Plc .com: That was the week
North Sea oil and gas unions call for a government investigation into Shell’s North Sea safety record after revelations that an internal audit found widespread violations of safety procedures and the alleged falsification of compliance documents.