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View Article  TODAYonline: Energy initiative takes centre stage at EBRD conference
Meanwhile, the EBRD is mulling new investment in the controversial Sakhalin II project, on the island of Sakhalin, 40 kilometres (25 miles) from Japan's coast.    more »
View Article  Silicon.com: Shell's £1m chip and PIN fraud 'an inside job'
A £1m chip and PIN fraud at a Shell petrol station was "an inside job", according to UK payments body Apacs. Shell suspended the use of chip and PIN payments at 600 UK petrol stations over the weekend as a precautionary measure following the theft of more than £1m from customer accounts.   more »
View Article  Expansion: Repsol buys emission rights from Shell (Repsol compra derechos de emision a Shell)
Leading Spanish petrochemicals group Repsol YPF is to acquire 10,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) emission rights from Anglo-Dutch petrochemicals giant Royal Dutch Shell. These rights have a market value of 205,000 euros.   more »
View Article  Caribbean Broadcasting Corporation (Barbados): Shell to pay farmers
They claim that a leak in a fuel oil line has severely hampered production in the area, with yields dropping significantly since the problem was detected several years ago. Sources say the paying out of a multi-million dollar compensation package is expected to resolve the matter and the amount of money to be paid is now being formally negotiated.    more »
View Article  New Europe: Gazprom, Shell mull SLF production in Russia
“Gazprom and Shell are holding consultations on working together in the GTL field. It would be premature to talk about any specific agreements,” a source from Gazprom said. A source familiar with Gazprom plans, however, told Interfax there was a joint project between Gazprom and Shell to build an SLF production plant near Nadym.   more »
View Article  Cohen, Milstein, Hausfeld & Toll, P.L.L.C.: Slave Labor at Royal/Dutch Shell Group
Shell additionally held the dubious distinction not only of having collaborated with the Nazi Regime to bring Deutsche Gasoline into fruition, but also of sharing control over the company with I.G. Farben Industrie - the infamous producer of Zyklon B poison gas. Despite its enormous wealth - as quantified by annual sales in excess of $93 billion - Shell has failed to compensate any of the men and women who worked on its grounds between 1943 and 1945.   more »
View Article  Les Echos - France: Total in shortlist for Shell LPG activities (Total serait parmi les 4 preselectionnes pour le GPL de Shell)
Royal Dutch Shell has included the French oil group Total in a shortlist of four offers for its liquefied petrol gas activities, according to sources familiar with the matter.   more »
View Article  Daily Times (Pakistan): VIEW: Nigeria’s road to ruin
There are also fears that the splintering of Dokubu’s militias has created fertile ground in the Delta for Islamist groups. A few weeks ago, a previously unknown organisation called “The Martyr’s Brigade” claimed credit for attacks on Delta pipelines, raising concerns among multinationals that mercenary resistance in the region is becoming ideological.   more »
View Article  THE SEATTLE TIMES: Chevron buys Alberta oil leases
The oil company said an estimated 7.5 billion barrels of oil are under the land and that two unnamed companies each have the option to purchase 20 percent of the leases. Chevron already has a 20 percent stake in the Athabasca Oil Sands Project, which is controlled by Royal Dutch Shell and based 24 miles southwest from the fields covered by the new leases.   more »
View Article  Interfax Information Services, B.V.: Gazprom and Shell Discuss Sakhalin-2 Project
Shell and Gazprom have set up a joint management committee to discuss the inclusion of the Russian gas giant in the Sakhalin-2 project, Chris Finlayson, Shell's manager in Russia, told journalists on Tuesday.    more »
View Article  New Vision Online: Shell (U) loses case to former employee
Five judges in a judgement delivered recently, upheld the Court of Appeal decision saying Shell’s appeal was incompetent and had also been filed out of time.    more »
View Article  TMCnet: SPD CEO appointed Shell Russia vice president for production

In addition to SPD, Shell is also taking part in the oil and gas project Sakhalin-2 in Russia, which is expected to build Russia's first plant to produce liquefied natural gas (LNG).
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View Article  New Scientist: If we don't stop burning oil...
THE 20th century was warmer than any time in the past thousand years, but that is nothing compared with how hot the Earth could become over the next millennium.   more »
View Article  AdRants: Shell Collects Consumer Info With Calling Card Promotion
Shell, in a seemingly innocent effort to give away a free phone card valued at $2 to students away from ...   more »
View Article  Anchorage Daily News: Shell appoints two lifelong Alaskans to navigate Beaufort Sea fields
For oil giant Shell to reach its goal of pumping oil from Beaufort Sea fields, it'll have to deal with two behemoths: the endangered bowhead whale, which North Slope Natives hunt and fervently protect, and the U.S. Department of the Interior, which regulates offshore drilling.    more »
View Article  PandCT.com: Shell and Sonatrach sign Memorandum of Understanding
Royal Dutch Shell plc ("Shell") and Sonatrach, the Algerian national energy company, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding covering multiple business initiatives, both in Algeria and internationally.    more »
View Article  Enter Stage Right (Canada): Scaring people about energy
A case in point is a new field near Sakhalin, a remote island off Russia’s east coast. American, Japanese, Indian, and Russian oil companies funded the project which now taps a field that will yield some 250,000 barrels of oil a day by the end of this year along with some 60 million cubic feet of natural gas.   more »
View Article  TMCnet: Sakhalin-2 participants to meet with Gazprom on Feb 21
Participants in the Sakhalin-2 oil and gas project - Anglo-Dutch Royal Dutch Shell and Japan's Mitsui and Mitsubishi - are to meet with Russian gas giant OAO Gazprom on February 21, a source close to preparations for the meeting told Interfax.more »
View Article  Fuel Cell Today: Shell Hydrogen Appoints New Vice President
With effect from 1 January 2006 Duncan Macleod has been appointed Vice President of Shell Hydrogen.    more »
View Article  MarineLink.com: Exxon, Shell Lose Nigerian Field Access
Chevron Corp. and Exxon Mobil lost an auction for Nigeria's most promising oil and gas fields last year to companies controlled by South Korea. In Venezuela, Royal Dutch Shell's bid to develop an offshore gas deposit collapsed when Brazil's state oil company stepped in.    more »
View Article  TreeHugger.com: Shell Bets on Thin Film Solar
Shell will instead focus on CIS thin film solar, based principally on Copper, Indium and Selenium. The cells typically produce a lower total energy output than crystalline solar cells but they're also cheaper to manufacture; most of all, they don't rely on silicon.   more »
View Article  Philippine Daily Inquirer: Palace tells gas firms to explain price hikes

MALACAYENANG WANTS oil firms in the country to justify their new round of price increases in the wake of record profits that global oil companies are reaping. Royal Dutch Shell announced on Feb. 1 that it earned $5.4 billion in the last quarter of 2005. Analysts said Shell's profit for the entire year, $22.94 billion, an increase of 30 percent from the previous year, was a record for a company listed in the United Kingdom.more »
View Article  Rutland Herald (Vermont): ExxonMobil recently reported record 2005 profits of more than $36 billion
The response from Shell Oil Company was nearly identical. "It is Shell and Motiva's view that public service funding decisions, such as funding and administering the low-income heating oil assistance program (LIHEAP), are a role and responsibility of the government," Shell spokeswoman Karyn Leonardi-Cattolica said in an e-mail. Shell posted a 2005 profit of $23 billion.    more »
View Article  MyWestTexas.com: Shell fourth-quarter earnings fall 4 percent on lower production
The company's main long-term problem is seen as the gap between the amount of oil and gas it is currently pumping and how much it will be able to produce in the future. ...Fortis Bank analyst Paul Andriessen said the 2005 rate of 60 to 70 percent replacement was about 10 percent less than he expected. Van der Veer's 2008 target may be seen as unrealistic, a main reason why investors were disappointed with the results, he said.    more »
View Article  Port Arthur News, TX: Motiva and Shell ‘Rebuilding' damaged SETX homes together
Speckled with white paint and braving brazen wind gusts, volunteers from Motiva Enterprises LLC and Shell worked feverishly Saturday afternoon to remodel a Port Arthur home wrecked by Rita's wild stop-off in Southeast Texas this past fall.   more »
View Article  US JUSTICE DEPARTMENT: CIVIL FRAUD RECOVERIES TOTAL $2.1 BILLION (An announcement that we missed)
•$49 million from Shell Oil Company to settle allegations that Shell improperly vented and flared gas from various offshore leases with the Interior Department. The suit also alleged that Shell underreported and underpaid royalties on the vented and flared gas. In 2000 and 2001, Shell paid the United States $56 million and $110 million to settle two earlier cases involving underpaid royalties owed the United States on natural gas and oil, respectively.    more »
View Article  Executive Intelligence Review: Enron, Parmalat, Shell Oil (an important article we missed from May 2004)
It became clear, that the Shell board of directors had had full knowledge that the figures were faked, for at least two years. It has also been revealed that top executives at Shell had destroyed certain documents in an attempt to cover up the fraud.   more »
View Article  Aljazeera.net, Qatar: Delta rebels fear for jailed chiefs
The militants warned Shell not to repair its damaged pipelines and oil platforms and said contractors caught at previously attacked installations would be killed.    more »
View Article  Daily Journal (Venezuela): Shell tax charge comes up short
Shell has settled its tax feud with the Venezuelan government by only handing over 10 percent of Caracas’ original tax demand, paying $13 million of the original $131 million claim.   more »
View Article  Viet Nam News: VN sees investment potential with Shell
Currently, Shell has invested US$231 million in Viet Nam to produce, lubricants, anti-absorptive construction materials, and gas. — VNS   more »
View Article  Fiji Times: Switch that phone off, Shell warns
GLOBAL energy group Shell Oil has issued a worldwide warning against the use of mobile phones at service stations after three incidents were reported where ringing mobile phones ignited fumes during fuelling operations.   more »
View Article  Pacific Magazine: PNG: Shell Employees Not Happy With Proposed Takeover Of Company
Royal Dutch Shell announced last year that it had reached an “in principle” agreement for a revised deal structure covering the sale of 100 per cent of its shares in Shell Papua New Guinea Limited to InterOil Products Limited.   more »
View Article  Louisiana Weekly: Shell back in downtown New Orleans after five months
(AP) - About 250 employees of Shell Exploration & Production Co. returned to the firm's downtown New Orleans offices Monday for the first time since Hurricane Katrina struck on August 29.    more »
View Article  Market Wire Incorporated: Delta Oil & Gas to Raise $2,000,000 in Private Placement at $4.40 per Share
The original Strachan gas pool was discovered 35 years ago; however, in November 2004, Shell Oil announced a new Leduc Pool discovery at Ricinus with potential one trillion cubic feet gas reserves.   more »
View Article  Oman-Oil.com: Oman Oil Company Signs Caspian Offshore PSA with Kasakhstan’s Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources
Pursuant to signing of the Production Sharing Agreement, OPCL and KazMunaiGaz signed an agreement to transfer 55% of the interest in the Pearls Blocks to Shell E&P Offshore Ventures.   more »
View Article  Oil & Gas News: Alaska offers promise for major oil companies
BP and ConocoPhillips aim to wring more oil from existing fields in Alaska's North Slope and bordering areas, while Shell said it intended to increase exploration in the mostly untapped frontiers of the state.   more »
View Article  IranOilGas.com: Shell Plans on Track in Iran
Exploration and Production boss Malcolm Brinded, seen as the firm's second-most senior executive, said discussions on a planned multi-billion dollar natural gas project continued as earlier envisaged.The Anglo-Dutch firm's position contrasts with London-based rival BP Plc. which refuses to invest in Iran for fear of irritating the U.S. government, a staunch critic of Iran.    more »
View Article  ResourceInvestor.com: Shell President Forced to Address 'Peak Oil' Theory
“[Van der Veer] did say that ‘easy oil has peaked’ but then said ‘look at what is elsewhere like the arctic, deepwater and so on.’ But if you listen to people like PFC Energy, the Washington based consultancy, they have suggested that deepwater will peak early in the next decade. He also mentioned oil sands but the overall plan for oil sands is to make just 5 million barrels a day by 2030. I must say it was not terribly convincing,” Strahan said.    more »
View Article  I-Newswire: Royal Dutch Shell Plc, the newly merged giant Anglo-Dutch multinational, destroyed $2.9 billion in shareholder value in 2005...
Royal Dutch Shell Plc, a global group of energy and petrochemical companies, permanently destroyed $2.974 billion of shareholder value during 2005 as a result of the application of the stable measuring unit assumption in the accounting of their Retained Income.    more »
View Article  Investments & Pensions Europe: Shell facing costs from Dutch funds’ action
Oil giant Shell today says the two class actions brought against it by Dutch pension schemes and German and Luxembourg institutions could dent its earnings significantly. In other news, the South African arm of Shell has been accused of “improperly” using surplus pension fund money according to a 2001 amendment of the Pension Funds Act.   more »
View Article  San Fransico Bay Guardian: Contrasting conferences
By contrast, in Davos, Royal Dutch Shell head Jeroen van der Veer said that the market and existing energy companies will be able to handle energy problems. "There is no reason for pessimism," he declared.   more »
View Article  Business Wire:Shell Brings Employees Together With New Orleans Civic, Business & Political Leaders to Mark Return to Downtown; $500,000 Donation to New Orleans Police Foundation for Housing
Today Shell marked the re-opening of its downtown New Orleans offices with a community ceremony at One Shell Square that included Shell employees, civic and political leaders, and business partners.   more »
View Article  Strategiy: Shell companies donate tents to Pakistan earthquake victims
“Shell is honoured to have been invited to contribute to this worthy cause. The donation demonstrates the commitment of Shell' Dubai staff and their families to social improvement here and in the wider region.   more »
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