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Tuesday, September 26, 2006
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Tuesday, September 26
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE: Chavez putting up a fight to get even bigger stake in oil Venezuela’s rich reserves give it bargaining power
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Royal Dutch Shell Plc .com
on Tue 26 Sep 2006 09:02 AM BST
Tuesday, September 5
San Francisco Chronicle: Coaxing oil from huge U.S. shale deposits
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Royal Dutch Shell Plc .com
on Tue 05 Sep 2006 08:33 AM BST
Robert Collier, Chronicle Staff Writer Monday, September 4, 2006 (09-04) 04:00 PDT Meeker, Colo. — Underneath the high, scrub-covered rangeland ... more » Saturday, September 2
The Wall Street Journal: Oil News Roundup: September 1, 2006 4:59 p.m.
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Royal Dutch Shell Plc .com
on Sat 02 Sep 2006 11:44 AM BST
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL ONLINE Crude oil prices tumbled to nearly $69 a barrel on ... more » Monday, August 28
Moscow Times: Shell Rejects Environment Report: Monday, August 28, 2006.
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Royal Dutch Shell Plc .com
on Mon 28 Aug 2006 12:57 AM BST
The Royal Dutch Shell-led Sakhalin Energy venture rejected a report that it had failed to respond to a list of environmental violations. more »
Wednesday, August 16
ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH: Steelman is a terror with state fund
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Royal Dutch Shell Plc .com
on Wed 16 Aug 2006 07:46 AM BST
EXTRACT: Two already have been tossed out: Royal Dutch Shell, for drilling for oil in Iran, and Deutsche Bank, for ... more »
FloridaToday.com: Shell president wants oil exploration
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Royal Dutch Shell Plc .com
on Wed 16 Aug 2006 07:04 AM BST
BY SCOTT BLAKE Shell Oil Co. President John Hofmeister on Tuesday delivered Big Oil’s message to the masses. ... more » Thursday, July 20
The Wall Street Journal: Putin Signs Law That Confirms Gazprom’s Export Monopoly
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Royal Dutch Shell Plc .com
on Thu 20 Jul 2006 11:39 PM BST
President Vladimir Putin signed a law that enshrines the monopoly over Russia’s gas exports of OAO Gazprom, the world’s largest gas company, his office said. more »
Tuesday, July 18
Dow Jones Newswires: Shell Aims To Complete Sakhalin Swap By End '06
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Royal Dutch Shell Plc .com
on Tue 18 Jul 2006 11:15 AM BST
MOSCOW -(Dow Jones)- Royal Dutch Shell PLC (RDSA) aims complete the swap of a stake in its Sakhalin-2 project for assets belonging to Russian natural gas giant OAO Gazprom (GSPBEX.RS) by the end of the year, Shell chief executive Jeroen Van der Veer said in an interview with Russian newspaper Vedomosti published Tuesday. more »
Friday, July 14
Forbes.com: Energy Tsar
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Royal Dutch Shell Plc .com
on Fri 14 Jul 2006 09:47 AM BST
Vladimir Putin is using publicly traded Gazprom, and its monster reserves, to remake Russia. Should you own a piece of it? more »
Thursday, July 13
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL: Rosneft IPO Seen Near Range's Top
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Royal Dutch Shell Plc .com
on Thu 13 Jul 2006 09:31 AM BST
Royal Dutch Shell PLC, which had been talking to Rosneft about an investment of around $1 billion, may not end up on the order books... more »
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL: Oil News Roundup
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Royal Dutch Shell Plc .com
on Thu 13 Jul 2006 09:23 AM BST
SHENHUA AND SHELL: Royal Dutch Shell PLC and Shenhua Ningxia Coal Industry Co. -- a unit of Shenhua Group, China's top coal producer -- agreed to pursue a three-year study of a coal-to-liquids plant in the remote western Ningxia region, taking another step closer to a project that could involve an investment of $5 billion to $6 billion.
Wednesday, July 12
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL: Rosneft Halts IPO Orders A Day Ahead of Schedule
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Royal Dutch Shell Plc .com
on Wed 12 Jul 2006 08:52 AM BST
Royal Dutch Shell PLC also is considering investing, although at the low end of the price range, meaning it might not participate, these people said. more »
The Houston Chronicle: Ultra, Shell get clearance to put wells closer together
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Royal Dutch Shell Plc .com
on Wed 12 Jul 2006 08:24 AM BST
Ultra Petroleum Corp. and Royal Dutch Shell have received approval from Wyoming to tighten well spacing in the Pinedale natural gas field to lift output, Ultra said Tuesday. more »
Tuesday, July 11
CentreDaily.com: The political tide is favoring Big Oil
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Royal Dutch Shell Plc .com
on Tue 11 Jul 2006 04:31 PM BST
After hurricanes Katrina and Rita hammered the Gulf Coast last summer, authorities responded to at least 595 oil, gas and chemical spills in the region, according to a study by The Houston Chronicle. more »
Sunday, July 9
THE NEW YORK TIMES: Volcanic Leaks Point to Climate Gas Storage Risks
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Royal Dutch Shell Plc .com
on Sun 09 Jul 2006 09:22 AM BST
Many companies are researching carbon storage, including Schlumberger, Alstom and oil companies such as Shell and Statoil. more »
Saturday, July 8
The Boston Globe: State pension fund has ties to firms operating in Sudan
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Royal Dutch Shell Plc .com
on Sat 08 Jul 2006 04:24 PM BST
The pension fund's investments in Sudan and Iran are dominated by foreign oil firms. The fund has $119.8 million in Royal Dutch Shell and $33.3 million in PetroChina, which both operate in Sudan and Iran. more »
Thursday, July 6
THE HOUSTON CHRONICLE: Royal Dutch Sells Assets to Gilligan
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Royal Dutch Shell Plc .com
on Thu 06 Jul 2006 01:02 AM BST
Dutch energy company Royal Dutch Shell PLC said Wednesday its Shell Oil Products U.S. division has sold stakes in 31 sites and 10 fuel supply contracts to Gilligan Oil Co., an Ohio wholesaler, for an undisclosed sum. more »
Wednesday, July 5
Bangor Daily News: Negotiating Royalties
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Royal Dutch Shell Plc .com
on Wed 05 Jul 2006 05:09 PM BST
Many large companies, which own the vast majority of leases, such as Shell Oil and Chevron Corp., say they are ready to discuss changes in the lease agreements to resolve the issue. more »
The Houston Chronicle: Japan has a request of Exxon Mobil
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Royal Dutch Shell Plc .com
on Wed 05 Jul 2006 09:03 AM BST
Combining Exxon Mobil-led Sakhalin-1 and Shell-led Sakhalin-2 would reduce costs and prices. Shell last July doubled its estimate for the cost of developing Sakhalin-2 to $20 billion, and Russia's Gazprom is reviewing cost overruns. more »
Monday, July 3
Royal Dutch Shell Plc .com: Rosneft Courts Share Buyers
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Royal Dutch Shell Plc .com
on Mon 03 Jul 2006 08:19 AM BST
From THE WALL STREET JOURNAL: By BENOÎT FAUCON: BP PLC of the U.K., Anglo-Dutch major Royal Dutch Shell PLC; India’s Oil & Natural Gas Corp., or ONGC; China Petrochemical Corp., or Sinopec; and China National Petroleum Corp. are among the companies that have been offered a large share of Rosneft’s IPO, said people involved in both sides of the talks. more »
Sunday, July 2
Royal Dutch Shell Plc .com: Iraq Offers to Sell Kirkuk Oil Through Term Contracts
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Royal Dutch Shell Plc .com
on Sun 02 Jul 2006 08:05 AM BST
FROM THE WALL STREET JOURNAL: It announced Friday that it awarded some 3.6 million barrels in a second tender to Repsol, Royal Dutch Shell and Vitol's North Atlantic. more »
Royal Dutch Shell Plc .com: The False Hope of Biofuels
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Royal Dutch Shell Plc .com
on Sun 02 Jul 2006 07:13 AM BST
It's difficult to understand how advocates of biofuels can believe they are a real solution to kicking our oil addiction. more »
Friday, June 30
Royal Dutch Shell Plc .com: Chevron Gets Sole Rights to Texaco Brand
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Royal Dutch Shell Plc .com
on Fri 30 Jun 2006 06:09 PM BST
From The Houston Chronicle/The Associated Press: Oil giant Chevron Corp. said Friday it is now the sole owner of U.S. rights to the Texaco brand of gas after a licensing agreement with Royal Dutch Shell PL expired. more »
Royal Dutch Shell Plc .com: Methvin to head Shell Chemical
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Royal Dutch Shell Plc .com
on Fri 30 Jun 2006 08:03 AM BST
From Houston Business Journal: Stacy Methvin has been appointed president and CEO of Shell Chemical LP, effective July 1. more »
Thursday, June 29
Royal Dutch Shell Plc .com: Judge sides with gas station owner fighting Shell Oil
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Royal Dutch Shell Plc .com
on Thu 29 Jun 2006 08:20 AM BST
From San Jose Mercury News: At issue is whether Shahbazi defamed Shell and thus broke his franchise agreement last fall when he passed out fliers and erected two large signs outside his station attacking Big Oil. more »
Wednesday, June 28
Royal Dutch Shell Plc .com: Lessons from Katrina
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Royal Dutch Shell Plc .com
on Wed 28 Jun 2006 08:50 AM BST
From Macon.com: One of the biggest hits was to the Mars platform, a giant offshore facility operated by Shell that accounts for about 5 percent of all Gulf Coast production. more »
Royal Dutch Shell Plc .com: Saudi says crude is flowing freely
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Royal Dutch Shell Plc .com
on Wed 28 Jun 2006 08:42 AM BST
From The Houston Chronicle: John Hofmeister, president of Shell Oil, said U.S. interdependence with Middle Eastern oil producers is fundamental to sustained economic growth for countries throughout the world. more »
Friday, June 23
Royal Dutch Shell Plc .com: Shell Touts Fuel Quality This Summer Through Multi-Million Dollar Marketing Campaign
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Royal Dutch Shell Plc .com
on Fri 23 Jun 2006 09:11 PM BST
Forbes: Shell Oil Products US, the marketer of the No. 1-selling gasoline brand in America, launched a $30 million marketing campaign on June 19 to communicate that all gasolines are not the same. more »
Tuesday, June 20
HuffingtonPost.com: Raymond J. Learsy: Oil Executives Morph Into Talking Heads On NBC's "Meet The Press"
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Royal Dutch Shell Plc .com
on Tue 20 Jun 2006 07:11 PM BST
Mr. John Hofmeister, president of Shell Oil informed us that "If we didn't have this level of profitability, I don't think we could get supplies to where they need to get to." The clucking noise of acknowledged contentment you heard in the background, was that of Lee Raymond, erstwhile chairman of Exxon-Mobil, counting his $400 million retirement package for having personally pumped gas into your car. more »
THE NEW YORK TIMES: Chevron Says It Still Expects Gorgon Gas Approval
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Royal Dutch Shell Plc .com
on Tue 20 Jun 2006 08:18 AM BST
ExxonMobil (XOM.N) and Royal Dutch Shell (RDSa.L) each have a 25 percent stake in the project. more »
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL: Gazprom, Shell Mull Siberia Plant
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Royal Dutch Shell Plc .com
on Tue 20 Jun 2006 08:09 AM BST
Gazprom and Royal Dutch Shell PLC are thinking about building a gas-to-liquids plant in Western Siberia in a project potentially valued at $8 billion, Gazprom said. more »
Monday, June 19
THE NEW YORK TIMES: Oil Company Execs: Fuel Relatively Cheap
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Royal Dutch Shell Plc .com
on Mon 19 Jun 2006 09:11 AM BST
''If we didn't have this level of profitability, I don't think we could get the supplies to where they need to get to,'' said the president of Shell Oil Co., John Hofmeister. more »
St. Petersburg Times, FL: Shell Oil eyes drilling west of Clearwater
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Royal Dutch Shell Plc .com
on Mon 19 Jun 2006 12:10 AM BST
Shell Oil Co. probably will apply within a month for a federal permit to drill an exploratory well 53 miles west of Clearwater, an operation that will take up to three months and go down 18,000 feet into the floor of the Gulf of Mexico. more »
BLOOMBERG: Chevron, Conoco, Shell Defend Oil Profits, Citing High Demand
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Royal Dutch Shell Plc .com
on Mon 19 Jun 2006 12:03 AM BST
Exxon Mobil, BP, Shell, Chevron and Total, the five largest publicly traded oil companies, earned about $29 billion in the first quarter of this year, or $4.46 for every person on Earth. more »
Saturday, June 17
The Dallas Morning News: Shell strategy leaves room for alternative fuels
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Royal Dutch Shell Plc .com
on Sat 17 Jun 2006 07:20 AM BST
John Hofmeister, president of Shell Oil Co., kicked off a 50-city public relations tour Friday in Dallas, the latest attempt by a big oil executive to explain that consumers aren't getting ripped off. more »
Friday, June 16
THE NEW YORK TIMES: U.S.-Style Pay Packages Are All the Rage in Europe
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Royal Dutch Shell Plc .com
on Fri 16 Jun 2006 07:37 AM BST
For example, Lord Browne of BP, Britain's largest company by stock market value, was awarded $18.5 million in compensation, including $2.6 million in salary and $7.16 million in long-term compensation, and Jeroen van der Veer, the head of Royal Dutch Shell, last year was awarded $12.7 million... more »
Tuesday, June 13
Houston Business Journal: Shell stations to distribute multilingual disaster preparedness pamphlets
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Royal Dutch Shell Plc .com
on Tue 13 Jun 2006 09:42 AM BST
The American Red Cross is teaming up with Shell Oil Co. and Motiva Enterprises LLC to make multilingual disaster preparedness pamphlets available to Gulf Coast area residents in Shell stations throughout Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and Florida. more »
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL: Exxon May Find Pipeline Self-Competing
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Royal Dutch Shell Plc .com
on Tue 13 Jun 2006 08:33 AM BST
With costs rising, the Mackenzie consortium -- whose partners also include Royal Dutch Shell PLC unit Shell Canada Ltd., ConocoPhillips and others -- last year raised projected capital costs by 50% to C$7.5 billion (US$6.8 billion) from about C$5 billion forecast in 2002. more »
Sunday, June 11
Associated Press: New Orleans court OKs Shell's offshore LNG terminal
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Royal Dutch Shell Plc .com
on Sun 11 Jun 2006 08:54 AM BST
A federal appellate court in New Orleans has ruled against a coalition of environmental and fishermen groups that sought to stop the Shell Oil Company from building a liquefied natural gas terminal off Louisiana's coast. more »
Saturday, June 10
Bangor Daily News: The LNG Question: Does Liquefied Natural Gas Have a Viable Future in Maine?
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Royal Dutch Shell Plc .com
on Sat 10 Jun 2006 03:59 PM BST
The Sakhalin II project has been beset by construction complications and underestimated costs, which now have ballooned to approximately $20 billion. The project, which has Royal Dutch Shell as its majority owner, also has raised environmental concerns about dredging and the effect of its ocean operations on whale migration routes. more »
The WALL STREET JOURNAL: Oil News Roundup: June 10, 2006
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Royal Dutch Shell Plc .com
on Sat 10 Jun 2006 02:59 PM BST
Tony Chukwueke, director of Nigeria's Department of Petroleum Resources, sent ripples through global oil markets when he said militants had shut down about 800,000 barrels a day of his country's oil production. more »
BREITBART.COM: World's who's who hold secret talks in Ottawa
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Royal Dutch Shell Plc .com
on Sat 10 Jun 2006 08:00 AM BST
Other attendees seen arriving in Ottawa on Thursday included former Canadian ambassador to Washington Frank McKenna, Royal Dutch Shell chairman Jorma Ollila, former World Bank president James Wolfenson and Scandinavian Airlines chairman Egil Myklebust, according to reports. Conspiracy theorists who follow the group accuse it of plotting world domination at its informal annual gatherings. more »
Friday, June 9
Seattle Post-Intelligencer: UW board approves 7% tuition increase (UW intends to divest Shell shares)
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Royal Dutch Shell Plc .com
on Fri 09 Jun 2006 01:33 PM BST
The university invests in at least one company that does business with the Sudan government -- the oil company Royal Dutch Shell. The UW, which has less than a $1 million stake in that company, intends to divest its shares. more »
The Washington Post: Stilling the Qualms Before the Storms
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Royal Dutch Shell Plc .com
on Fri 09 Jun 2006 01:20 PM BST
Shell Oil Co.'s "Mars" platform in the Gulf of Mexico had been through hurricanes, but nothing had prepared it for Hurricane Katrina last year. For four hours, the platform was lashed by 175 mile-per-hour winds and slapped by 80-foot waves. The platform's tall drilling rig, which looks like a bad copy of the Eiffel Tower, toppled over, and the rig's 1,000-ton substructure was ripped free, lifted into the air and dropped onto the platform. more »
The WALL STREET JOURNAL: Oil News Roundup: Friday June 9, 2006: ZARQAWI'S EFFECT ON OIL:
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Royal Dutch Shell Plc .com
on Fri 09 Jun 2006 08:09 AM BST
Many traders realized soon enough that the welcome end of one menace in Iraq didn't mean crude oil was suddenly free to gush from Iraq's pipes. Sectarian and insurgent violence won't end tomorrow. Iraq's oil infrastructure, meanwhile, was in awful shape after decades of neglect ... more »
Thursday, June 8
Free Market News Network: NIGERIA’S STRUGGLE WITH CORRUPTION
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Royal Dutch Shell Plc .com
on Thu 08 Jun 2006 04:37 PM BST
EXTRACTS: "Between 1970 and the early 2004, more than $450 billion in oil money flowed into Nigerian government coffers, which simply vanished into private pockets. Nigerians are now asking what happened to the "oil money." The situation deteriorated so rapidly that Nigeria often ranks as the most corrupt nation and the scam capital of the world. ": "Ken Saro-Wiwa started the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP), demanded $10 billion for environmental damage and royalties from the federal government and Royal Dutch/Shell, and threatened to secede the area from Nigeria.": " In May 1995 Saro-Wiwa was arrested; he and eight others were hanged on November 10, 1995 despite a chorus of international pleas for clemency.": "In the 35 years that Shell operated the Batan field, oil spills have spoiled the village's traditional livelihood of fishing. Further, villagers must paddle for three hours to find clean water." more »
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL: Five Korean Gas Workers Taken Hostage in Nigeria
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Royal Dutch Shell Plc .com
on Thu 08 Jun 2006 09:50 AM BST
MEND, the main militant group in Nigeria, has been responsible for a wave of attacks and hostage takings this year in the country's oil-rich southern delta. The militants say impoverished southern Nigerians aren't getting enough benefit from the oil revenue flowing from their land. more »
The WALL STREET JOURNAL ONLINE: Oil News Roundup: Thursday June 8, 2006
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Royal Dutch Shell Plc .com
on Thu 08 Jun 2006 09:16 AM BST
GREENSPAN ON OIL: MORE TROUBLE IN NIGERIA: UNEASE OVER IRAN: more »
The Washington Times: 5 kidnapped, 7 killed in Shell plant attack
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Royal Dutch Shell Plc .com
on Thu 08 Jun 2006 08:12 AM BST
MEND, the main militant group in Nigeria, has been responsible for a wave of attacks and abductions this year in the country's oil-rich southern delta. The militants contend that impoverished southern Nigerians aren't getting enough of the oil revenue. more »
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