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Mon Mar 26, 2007 10:22 AM BST
LAGOS, March 26 (Reuters) – Royal Dutch Shell (RDSa.L: Quote, Profile , Research) has resumed pumping crude oil through a 187,000 barrel per day pipeline that was closed on March 4 due to a spill, a spokesman said.
Repairs to the pipeline that feeds the Bonny export terminal were completed last Thursday and output from the flow stations feeding the trunk line is climbing steadily.
“The flow stations have reopened and production is ramping up,” a spokesman said.
By Vincent Nwanma
Last Update: 5:55 AM ET Mar 26, 2007
LAGOS (MarketWatch) — Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria, a unit of Royal Dutch Shell PLC has resumed pumping of crude oil through its Nembe Creek Trunk Pipeline, where a spill led to a shut-in of 187,000 barrels a day, a spokesman said Monday.
However, the Nigerian government has sued the oil company for alleged violation of nuclear safety and radiation law, according to media reports Monday.
“We have resumed pumping, but I cannot say how much it is now,” Bisi Ojediran said. “Normally, production will ramp up,” he said.
The price of crude oil has gone up to its highest level so far in 2007 amid the heightened tensions surrounding Iran.
It is pushing towards $64 a barrel in New York – and signs are it will increase even further.
The problem surrounds Tehran’s refusal to halt its nuclear programme despite the sanctions brought in by the UN.
The latest developments have renewed market concerns that the world’s fourth-largest oil exporter could one day cut its exports in retaliation.
Iran’s capture of 15 British naval personnel in the Gulf last week has also heightened worries.
March 26 2007 at 12:57AM
Lagos – Two hostages, one Lebanese and the other Indian, were released on Sunday after they were abducted two days ago in Nigeria’s oil-producing delta region, local authorities said.
The two construction workers, employed by Nigerian firm Setraco, were taken at gunpoint from their workplace near the city of Warri on Friday.
“All the waterways were blocked so they had no way to move further into the creeks, so they were released,” said Brigadier General Alfred Ilogho, who heads a military task force in the area.
By Upstream staff
China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) will double its spending on an ageing Iranian oilfield and aims to start drilling this year, an industry official said today.
CNPC recently renegotiated terms with the National Iranian Oil Company and raised its investment to about $150 million to produce oil from the Masjed-i-Suleiman field, an official familiar with the project told Reuters.
The service contract was initially signed in 2004.
Tehran, under increasing US pressure over its atomic programme, is lining up oil and gas deals with international companies including Chinese state players, Royal Dutch/Shell and Spain’s Repsol .
Conor Sweeney in Moscow
Published: Mar 26, 2007
Kremlin intrigue shrouds tomorrow’s auction of controversial Russian oil assets, which has dragged BP deep into the country’s complex energy politics.
Although anticipated to be little more than a forced auction, the surprise bid for one of the remaining crown jewels in the bankrupt oil giant Yukos may at last be attracting international interest.
At least that’s the impression BP wishes to portray, after announcing it will compete through its Moscow-based subsidiary TNK-BP with the Kremlin- controlled Rosneft for the 9.44 per cent stake in Rosneft, which Yukos had once controlled.
Lorna Siggins, Marine Correspondent
Published: Mar 26, 2007
The Environmental Protection Agency’s oral hearing into its licensing of the Corrib gas terminal has been set for April 16th.
The hearing will be held by Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) staff in the Broadhaven Bay Hotel, Belmullet, following 12 submissions in relation to its preliminary licensing of the project.
Corrib’s lead developer, Shell E&P Ireland, An Taisce, local priest Fr Michael Nallen, the Erris Inshore Fishermen’s Association and individual members of the Shell to Sea campaign were among the 12 appellants, following the Environment Protection Agency’s issuing of preliminary integrated pollution prevention and control (IPPC) approval in January this year.
Headline: O’Mahony learns to play political game . . . but manages to keep his eye on the ball
Published: Mar 26, 2007
Extracts from the article
JOHN O’Mahony is on a double mission – to recapture the All Ireland title for Mayo and to win a third seat in the county for Fine Gael.
O’Mahony is looking for votes in a constituency which already boasts five strong sitting TDs – Independent Jerry Cowley, Independent Beverly Cooper Flynn, Fianna Fail’s John Carty and Fine Gael’s Enda Kenny and Michael Ring. All of them are experienced politicians, but O’Mahony said he had his own strengths.
• SSS cracks hostage-taking ring
From Funso Muraina in Abuja and Ahamefula Ogbu in Port Harcourt, 03.26.2007
The Federal Government has filed a law suit against Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) and three other companies for violation of nuclear safety and radiation law by allegedly dumping radioactive substances in Warri, Delta State.
This comes just as the State Security Services (SSS) in Port Harcourt has cracked the hostage taking ring in the city as they arrested and paraded two men, Ekene Ibebuka (21) and Nnamdi Eme (42) while declaring their alleged sponsor and former gubernatorial aspirant under the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Prince Clark Igodo wanted with N5 million price on his head.
(Allan J. Samuel: We provide the technology for Shell’s involvement in various segment of the market)
By SABRY TAHIR
SHELL Global Solutions’ current focus is to provide solutions for Shell’s multi-billion dollar ethylene cracker in Singapore, while preparing to meet the challenges arising from Asia-Pacific’s growing concern for the environment.
Shell Global Solutions engineering and analytical technology manager (Asia-Pacific Service Centre) Allan J. Samuel said the Kuala Lumpur office was committed to providing multi-million dollar technical consultation and technology implementation work for the 800,000-tonnes-per-annum ethylene cracker on Bukom Island.
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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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