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September 10th, 2005:

Shell in Nigeria

Saturday Independent (Nigeria): Claims to environmental degradation, highly exaggerated – Shell Manager: “The drilling manager, however, noted that people of the South-south who still create Nigeria’s wealth, had every cause to feel aggrieved that they were not befitting enough from the oil resources under their feet.”

Saturday 10 Sep 2005

By Terna Doki

As agitations by the Niger-Delta people for resource control and derivation continue to elicit arguments, an oil manager, Mr. Dondo Ahire has said that claims to environmental damage were highly exaggerated.

Ahire, a drilling manager with Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) said this while speaking with journalists in Gboko, Benue State.

He contended that besides the bogus claims to environmental degradation by people of the South-south, the host communities caused 60 percent of the said damage. read more

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ONGC mulls using Shell tech for SCG facility

Sify.com (India): ONGC mulls using Shell tech for SCG facility

“Shell is a leading surface coal gasification technology provider in the world.”

Saturday, 10 September 2005

Kolkata: ONGC seems to be adding a new twist to its plan to enter into the coal gasification business.

In addition to its plans for underground coal gasification (UCG), in technical collaboration with the Stochinsky Institute of Russia, ONGC is now exploring the possibility of setting up a surface coal gasification (SCG) facility in West Bengal using Shell technology.

According to sources, the company has already held negotiations with Shell in this regard and may also consider taking the joint venture route with a foreign major. read more

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Irish Times: FF chair of committee denies he is avoiding Shell issue

Irish Times: FF chair of committee denies he is avoiding Shell issue

“Meanwhile, a senior Shell executive has apologised for describing the proposed trip to Norway by Dr Jerry Cowley (Ind) as “a junket”. Corrib gas project manager Mark Carrigy said he regretted using the term in an interview on Mid West Radio.”

Lorna Siggins, Marine Correspondent

Sep 10, 2005

Fianna Fail’s Noel O’Flynn, chair of the Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Marine and Natural Resources, rejected a Labour Party claim that he is avoiding convening a meeting on the Shell Corrib gas issue.

Mr O’Flynn was responding yesterday to criticism of him by one of the Oireachtas committee members, Labour TD Tommy Broughan, who has accused him of “running away” from the issue.

Relatives of the five imprisoned north Mayo men and the Shell to Sea campaign are to travel to Norway next week with Mayo TD Jerry Cowley. The group plans to raise Statoil’s role in the row, given that the company is a shareholder of Shell and Marathon in the gas field. read more

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Symbolic oil blockade in support of Rossport prisoners

Irish Independent: Symbolic oil blockade in support of Rossport prisoners

“The five Co Mayo men have been imprisoned for over 70 days due to their objection to work being carried out by Shell, without the necessary ministerial consent, in the village of Rossport in the north of the county.”

Saturday Sept 10, 2005

A SYMBOLIC blockade of the Statoil Depot in Dublin’s East Wall is being staged this morning, in support of the Rossport Five.

Campaign group Dublin Shell to Sea has called for the public’s help in its protest against Statoil’s links to Shell E&P (Ireland) Ltd and Marathon International Petroleum Hibernia Ltd over the controversial Corrib gas pipeline.

The five Co Mayo men have been imprisoned for over 70 days due to their objection to work being carried out by Shell, without the necessary ministerial consent, in the village of Rossport in the north of the county. read more

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Shell reassures over Hurricane Katrina

THE TIMES (UK): Shell reassures over Hurricane Katrina

“Shell, the international oil giant, has tried to reassure markets and its investors about the impact on its operations of Hurricane Katrina, which forced it to shut down oil and chemical refineries in the United States and Gulf of Mexico.”

Posted Saturday September 10, 2005

By Miles Costello, Times Online

Shell, the international oil giant, has tried to reassure markets and its investors about the impact on its operations of Hurricane Katrina, which forced it to shut down oil and chemical refineries in the United States and Gulf of Mexico.

The reassurances from Shell, which said it hoped to have production restored to 60 per cent of capacity during the fourth quarter, came as the oil price rose again on fears of a winter fuel supply shortage. read more

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The New Prize: Alternative Fuels

THE NEW YORK TIMES: The New Prize: Alternative Fuels

“In July, Corn Cob Bob, an ethanol industry mascot, was banished from Canada Day celebrations in Ottawa. Shell, a sponsor of the festivities, had expressed discomfort at the mascot’s participation.”

Saturday 10 Sept 2005

By DANNY HAKIM

Published: September 10, 2005

DETROIT, Sept. 9 – A week ago, Benjamin Kleber was spending $3.39 a gallon at a gasoline station in Maryland when he noticed an obscure decal on his minivan.

“It’s this sticker about the size of a business card that’s stuck on the side of the gas flap that I never really paid attention to,” said Mr. Kleber, a 25-year-old electrical engineer for a government contractor. The decal said he could be using E85, a fuel cocktail that consists mostly of grain alcohol, or corn-based ethanol, with a splash of gasoline. read more

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On Oil Supply, Opinions Aren’t Scarce

THE NEW YORK TIMES: On Oil Supply, Opinions Aren’t Scarce

“He pointed to those Canadian oil sands – where, he said, Shell Canada recently announced it was going to raise its investment to $7.3 billion from $4 billion to produce an additional 100,000 barrels a day. “Just think about that; $3.3 billion for just 100,000 barrels,” he said. “Doesn’t that tell you something?”

Saturday 10 Sept 2005

By Joseph Nocera

Published: September 10, 2005

We’re halfway through the hydrocarbon era,” my old friend T. Boone Pickens has been saying for the last couple of years. You may remember Mr. Pickens as the most famous corporate raider of the 1980’s, but he has spent his life in the oil patch. A geologist by training, Mr. Pickens founded Mesa Petroleum at the age of 26 and ran it for the next 40 years. Now, at 77, he works the oil patch in a different way, running a pair of energy-oriented hedge funds in Dallas. read more

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Daily Telegraph: ‘So we were all sacrificial lambs?’

Daily Telegraph: ‘So we were all sacrificial lambs?’

“Shell’s directors were aware that the company’s controversial restructuring would leave some of its British investors nursing a multi-million-pound tax bill months before the deal went through, according to a leaked telephone conversation with a senior Shell executive.”: “Peter Buckley, chairman of Caledonia Investments and one of the rebels, said: “It is pretty sad that Shell is spending a lot of money to rebuild their image and then goes on to score such an own goal. I think it is shabby of Shell.”

Saturday 10 September 2005

(Filed: 10/09/2005)

Shell knew its merger would land investors a hefty tax bill, reports Christopher Hope

Shell’s directors were aware that the company’s controversial restructuring would leave some of its British investors nursing a multi-million-pound tax bill months before the deal went through, according to a leaked telephone conversation with a senior Shell executive.

David Hunter raised doubts in a leaked phone call

Yesterday rebel investors in Royal Dutch Petroleum, who are holding out for a better deal, demanded to know why the board was willing to saddle them with the capital gains tax in the merger with Shell Transport & Trading to create Royal Dutch Shell. read more

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