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10/11/2006 18:54 MOSCOW, November 10 (RIA Novosti) – Contractors in the Sakhalin II oil and gas project in Russia’s Far East have paid the first two tranches, worth over eight million rubles ($300,000), in compensation for damage inflicted on forests, the environmental watchdog said Friday.
The multibillion-dollar Sakhalin II project has been accused of inflicting large-scale ecological damage on Sakhalin Island, including illegal deforestation, the dumping of toxic waste, and soil erosion.
Fri Nov 10, 2006 5:01 PM GMT
By Dmitry Zhdannikov
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia may sue Royal Dutch Shell’s
Oleg Mitvol, deputy head of environmental agency RosPrirodNadzor, said his agency had received a plan from Sakhalin-2 on how the company intended to rectify ecological damage but considered that it was “not serious”.
10/11/2006 – 1:51:04 PM
A man and a woman are being questioned at Belmullet Garda station charged with public order offences at the Corrib gas terminal in Mayo this morning.
Two people have been hospitalised with head injuries, after gardaí baton-charged a crowd of about 200 protestors who were blocking a convoy of construction workers at the Bellanaboy site.
The Shell to Sea protest group’s Day of Action sparked off violent scenes.
But gardaí succeeded in moving the convoy of workers through to the site.
10 Nov 2006 14:45:05 GMT
Source: Reuters
MOSCOW, Nov 10 (Reuters) – Russia may claims billions of dollars in damages from Royal Dutch Shell
Oleg Mitvol, deputy head of environmental agency RosPrirodNadzor, said his agency had received a plan from Shell on how the company planned to rectify ecological damages, but considered that it was “not serious”.
“We are talking to lawyers and determining our position to file for damages according to international law. The place would be Stockholm and it would be the law of New York,” Mitvol told Reuters.
Headline: Shell declines comment on Sakhalin legal challenge
Fri Nov 10, 2006 10:05am ET
LONDON, Nov 10 (Reuters) – Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSa.L: Quote, Profile, Research) declined to comment on Friday on comments from a Russian environment official that his agency might scrap Shell’s contract to develop the $22 billion Sakhalin-2 project and claim billions of dollars in damages.
Shell spokesman Stuart Bruseth referred inquiries to Sakhalin Energy, the Shell-led consortium running the project in which Shell has a 55 percent stake.
TNK-BP, the oil and gas firm 50%-owned by BP, says it has settled a back-tax bill owed to the Russia authorities – reported to be worth $1.4bn (£752m).
The payment comes amid increasing pressure from the Kremlin over projects part-operated by foreign investors.
TNK-BP’s Rospan division has been threatened with prosecution, as have the operators of the Sakhalin-2 project – led by Anglo-Dutch oil giant Shell.
The bill is thought to be the second largest ever paid by a Russian firm.
Fri Nov 10, 2006 9:48 AM GMT
DUBLIN (Reuters) – Irish police baton-charged protesters at a Royal Dutch Shell gas terminal in the west of Ireland on Friday after about 200 people blocked a convoy of vehicles taking construction workers to the site.
One man was taken to hospital following running clashes between police and protestors that lasted for more than an hour, Irish broadcaster RTE said.
The police were not immediately able to confirm the report.
Shell is locked in a dispute with local residents about a pipeline they plan to build to bring gas onshore.
November 10, 2006
MOSCOW (AP) — Russian prosecutors said yesterday that they had opened a criminal investigation into the role of an unnamed executive with BP PLC’s Russian joint venture, just days after the Prosecutors General’s Office said it was seeking to annul licenses held by one of the venture’s subsidiaries.
The move is yet another step against TNK-BP, which BP owns jointly with a group of Russian billionaires, and comes as the Kremlin is seeking to increase its say in the strategic oil and gas sector.
According to a statement on the prosecutors’ Web site, the head of TNK-BP’s Rospan division, which operates licenses to develop deep gas fields in the Northern Yamalo-Nenets region, was being investigated for apparently profiting from violating licensing agreements.
Last Updated: 1:07am GMT 10/11/2006
• BP agreed to settle a lawsuit brought by a woman whose parents died in a Texas refinery explosion that killed 15 and injured hundreds more, the woman’s lawyer said.
• Petrofac agreed to pay $30m to acquire 45pc of Tunisia’s Chergui gas field, due to start production next year, the company said.
• Royal Dutch Shell’s Sakhalin-2, Russia’s largest foreign-owned oil and gas project, received “interests” from gas buyers, including China, for two-thirds of the total capacity of the venture, a company official said.
By Angela Macdonald-Smith
Nov. 10 (Bloomberg) — Chevron Corp., the second-largest U.S. oil company, said it made a “significant” natural gas discovery off Western Australia.
The Clio-1 well found gas over about 190 meters (623 feet), making it “one of the top wells in Australia in terms of total net pay,” the San Ramon, California-based company said today in a statement distributed by PRNewswire. The discovery follows the Chandon-1 find off Western Australia earlier this year.
Published: Nov 10, 2006
PERTH, Nov 10 Asia Pulse – Australia’s largest resources project, The North West Shelf Venture (NWSV), has signed a deal with Japan’s Kansai Electric for the ongoing supply of liquefied natural gas.
In an eight-year deal starting April 2009, the $A14 billion ($US10.77 billion) West Australian-based North West Shelf Venture will supply an average 400,000 tonnes per year to Kansai Electric.
NWSV’s six major participants are Woodside Petroleum Ltd, BHP Billiton Ltd; BP Developments Australia Pty Ltd, Chevron Australia Pty Ltd, Japan Australia LNG (MIMI) Pty Ltd and Shell Development (Australia) Pty Ltd.
Published: Nov 10, 2006
MONACO contractor SBM Offshore has secured a floating production contract from Shell to provide a ship on the BC-10 Brazilian project, writes Martyn Wingrove.
It will co-operate with Malaysia International Shipping Corporation to supply a floating production storage and offloading vessel from the end of 2008 or early 2009.
SBM will be in the market for equipment to help it convert a very large crude carrier into an FPSO capable of processing 100,000 barrels of oil and injecting up to 75,000 barrels of water back into the reservoir.
Published: Nov 10, 2006
Madam, – While many people may be aware of the financial and environmental scandal that is taking place off the coast of Mayo, they are probably unaware that Exxon Mobil have been given extensive exploration rights off the coast of Kerry, valued at up to 20 billion. Drilling has yet to start but seismic exploration has already pinpointed two large oil and gas prospects 200 miles southwest of the Kerry coast in the Dunquin Field.
Tony O’Reilly’s company, Providence Resources, which has a stake in the find, estimated that it could contain over 25 trillion cubic feet of recoverable natural gas and over four billion barrels of oil – a significant find even by international standards.
EXTRACT: BP is not the only foreign company to have come under pressure from Russian authorities in recent months. Royal Dutch Shell which leads the $20bn Sakhalin 2 oil and gas project and Exxon Mobil, the main operator in the Sakhalin 1 project, have come under fire from Russian environmental agencies in what is seen as a politicised attack.
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By Arkady Ostrovsky in Moscow: Published: November 10 2006 02:00 | Last updated: November 10 2006 02:00
Russian prosecutors have opened a criminal case against a senior executive of Rospan, a subsidiary of TNK-BP, the Anglo-Russian oil venture, in the latest move against foreign oil companies.
EXTRACT: At present the technology to make cellulosic ethanol is in its early stages but it has attracted the interest of Royal Dutch Shell, which has formed a partnership with Iogen Corporation, a Canadian biotech company.
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By Krishna Guha in Washington and Fiona Harvey in London: Published: November 10 2006 02:00 | Last updated: November 10 2006 02:00
The Bush administration is to launch a big “energy independence” initiative, likely to include renewed emphasis on biofuels, as part of an attempt to regain the political initiative following the mid-term elections.
By Sheila McNulty in Houston: Published: November 9 2006 18:30 | Last updated: November 10 2006 02:11
BP on Thursday settled the main civil case arising from the fatal Texas City refinery explosion.
It lifts the immediate threat of highly damaging documents being made public and the prospect of Lord Browne, BP’s chief executive, being forced to testify.
BP said it would make $32m (£17m) in worker training and healthcare donations to help those in the industry, and provide a private settlement to the claimant to end the trial, which was to have started with opening arguments on Monday.
A CANCER-causing chemical was found in ground-water contaminated by unleaded petrol leaking from a Bishop’s Stortford filling station.
Borehole samples at the scene in Stansted Road included levels of benzene “thousands of times above the UK standard for safe drinking water”, stated the Environment Agency.
The information was revealed in court evidence against Shell over the leak at its Oaklands Park station, discovered in March last year.
Almost 3,500 litres went missing from the underground tank, polluting a major aquifer, which could potentially be used for drinking water, reported the EA. There was a second leak at the same site the following July.
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Royal Dutch Shell conspired directly with Hitler, financed the Nazi Party, was anti-Semitic and sold out its own Dutch Jewish employees to the Nazis. Shell had a close relationship with the Nazis during and after the reign of Sir Henri Deterding, an ardent Nazi, and the founder and decades long leader of the Royal Dutch Shell Group. His burial ceremony, which had all the trappings of a state funeral, was held at his private estate in Mecklenburg, Germany. The spectacle (photographs below) included a funeral procession led by a horse drawn funeral hearse with senior Nazis officials and senior Royal Dutch Shell directors in attendance, Nazi salutes at the graveside, swastika banners on display and wreaths and personal tributes from Adolf Hitler and Reichsmarschall, Hermann Goring. Deterding was an honored associate and supporter of Hitler and a personal friend of Goring.
Deterding was the guest of Hitler during a four day summit meeting at Berchtesgaden. Sir Henri and Hitler both had ambitions on Russian oil fields. Only an honored personal guest would be rewarded with a private four day meeting at Hitler’s mountain top retreat.
IN JULY 2007, MR BILL CAMPBELL (ABOVE, A RETIRED GROUP AUDITOR OF SHELL INTERNATIONAL SENT AN EMAIL TO EVERY UK MP AND MEMBER OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS: 
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MORE DETAILS: After a solicitor acting for Shell threatened to make the litigation "drawn out and difficult" with the intention of draining the resources of a financially weaker opponent, my late father (Alfred Donovan) and I decided to mount a wide-ranging campaign as a counter-measure. We jointly founded the Shell Corporate Conscience Pressure Group, which nearly 15% of Shell UK retailers joined. We regularly conducted ethical surveys involving up to 1500 Shell petrol stations. All responses were opened and authenticated by an independent solicitor who supplied Affidavits confirming the results. In whole page announcements in trade magazines (examples above) we challenged Shell to commission and publish the resuits of independent research asking the same questions and offering respondents GUARANTEED anonymity. Shell never took up the invitation. Instead it asked the UK Advertising Standards Authority to investigate our Shell surveys. No problems were found. The head-cut image of Alfred Donovan appears courtesy of The Wall Street Journal. 
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