The oil companies named in the report were Chevron, Shell Oil, Hess Corp and Gary Williams Energy Corp.
September 11th, 2008:
US Interior Secy ‘outraged’ by oil-sex scandal
Shell assessing damage to ‘Solitaire’
Shell has said it cannot yet say what impact the damage to the pipe-laying vessel Solitaire will have on the Corrib offshore gas pipeline project. The ship was damaged accidentally yesterday and was withdrawn from Broadhaven Bay.
Shell completes Bonga deepwater 4D survey
Royal Dutch Shell PLC's Nigerian subsidiary completed 4D seismic acquisition over deepwater Bonga oil and gas field off Nigeria in an effort to maximize ultimate recovery from the field.
Oil brokers sex scandal may affect drilling debate
Between 2002 and 2006, 19 oil marketers nearly a third of the Denver office staff received gifts and gratuities from oil and gas companies, including Chevron Corp., Shell, Hess Corp. and Denver-based Gary-Williams Energy Corp., the investigators found.
Government workers in oil industry sex and drug scandal: ‘CULTURE OF PROMISCUITY’
U.S. Interior Department employees who oversaw oil drilling on federal lands had sex and used illegal drugs with workers at energy companies where they were conducting official business, an internal government report said on Wednesday.
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Also, Chevron as a whole refused to cooperate with the three years-long investigations into the cheating, cocaine-using, bid-downgrading, first-class-flying, subordinate-sexing drunken party that has been the Mineral Management Service these last few years. Even though clearly both Chevron and Shell had been providing "gifts" to the employees. This is what makes America great!
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Sex, drugs alleged in oil deals
By Anne C. Mulkern The Denver Post
Sept 10, 2008
WASHINGTON Federal workers in Lakewood who oversee offshore oil and gas drilling had sex and used drugs with energy company employees, provided information to industry favorites, and accepted thousands of dollars in gifts while handling contracts worth billions of dollars, investigators said Wednesday.
Employees at the Minerals Management Service, including the former head of the Lakewood division, repeatedly and flagrantly violated ethics rules over a four-year period, the Interior Department’s inspector general said in three reports.
Iraq Cancels Six No-Bid Oil Contracts
Iraqs oil minister, Hussain al-Shahristani, told reporters at an OPEC summit meeting in Vienna on Tuesday that talks with Exxon Mobil, Chevron, Shell, Total, BP and several smaller companies for one-year deals, which were announced in June and subsequently delayed, had dragged on for so long that the companies could not now fulfill the work within that time frame. The companies confirmed on Wednesday that the deals had been canceled.
Shell named in U.S. Federal Oil Officials Sex and Drugs Corruption Scandal
Federal Oil Officials Accused In Sex and Drugs Scandal
By STEPHEN POWERSeptember 11, 2008; Page A1
WASHINGTON — Employees of the federal agency that last year collected more than $11 billion in royalties from oil and gas companies broke government rules and created a “culture of ethical failure” by allegedly accepting gifts from and having sex with industry representatives, the Interior Department’s top watchdog said Wednesday.
A report by the Interior Department’s inspector general, Earl Devaney, described a party atmosphere at the Denver office of the Minerals Management Service, a bureau of the department. Some employees of the office, which houses the department’s royalty-in-kind program, “frequently consumed alcohol at industry functions, had used cocaine and marijuana, and had sexual relations with oil and gas company representatives,” the report said, adding that “sexual relationships with prohibited sources cannot, by definition, be arms-length.”
Law society warning over Russia’s ‘state-sponsored intimidation’
Hermitage's problems are likely to add to pressure on Russia after apparent political interference at TNK-BP and Royal Dutch Shell's Sakhalin 2 gas project.
Sarah Palin taxes put pipelines in jeopardy, say oil giants
In Alaska I broke the lobbyist and special interests that had controlled big oil. We are going to make this nation energy-independent.
Even Dimitri Medvedev cannot stop slide in Moscow’s stock market
Investors have been shedding their exposure to the Russian market, taking fright initially from the power struggle at TNK-BP and latterly from the falling oil price and the conflict in Georgia.
Emergency alert for Texas as Hurricane Ike heads for state
Emergency alert for Texas as Hurricane Ike heads for state
Miami President Bush declared an emergency in Texas as Hurricane Ike headed towards the state. Evacuations were started on the coast and the President ordered federal aid to help local efforts to prepare for the hurricane, which killed 100 people in the Carribean. It is expected to reach Texas on Saturday.
Shell, the Anglo-Dutch oil giant, evacuated employees from its offshore installations yesterday when the hurricane hit the Gulf of Mexico, where many oil refineries are based.
The US will provide $10 million (£5.7 million) in aid to help Haiti to recover from the recent storms, a spokesman for the White House said. (AFP)
US oil officials in sex scandal
The oil companies named in the report were Chevron Corp, Shell Oil, Hess Corp and Gary Williams Energy Corp.
Sex, drugs and oil: corruption scandal rocks US agency
WASHINGTON (AFP) US Department of the Interior employees who handled billions of dollars in oil contracts improperly engaged in sex with energy company employees, a report released Wednesday said.
Sex, Drug Use and Graft Cited in Interior Department
On one occasion in 2002, the report said, two of the officials who marketed taxpayers oil got so drunk at a daytime golfing event sponsored by Shell that they could not drive to their hotels and were put up in Shell-provided lodging.
Shell exec welcomes new DOE probe into alleged collusion
An executive of Pilipinas Shell Petroleum Corp. said Wednesday he was surprised that an investigation into the alleged collusion of oil firm giants was again launched by the government to look into persistent accusations that they were manipulating fuel prices.
Corrib work suspended for ‘technical’ reasons
The controversial Corrib gas pipe-laying operation off the Mayo coast has been suspended today after a boat involved in preparatory works was damaged, Shell said today.
Gas protest fishermen re-arrested
Gas protest fishermen re-arrested
Two fishermen have been re-arrested and energy giant Shell was forced to abandon pipe-laying works as protests continued to escalate over the controversial Corrib gas project.
The father and son, who are members of the Shell to Sea group, were first detained last night on their fishing boats during protests in Broadhaven Bay.
Hours after being released, the men, aged 51 and 23, joined a second stand-off at sea and were again taken into custody.
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Energy Giant In Iraq Gas Venture
The Anglo Dutch giant has agreed a joint gas venture worth more than £2bn with the Iraq oil ministry.
Sex, Drugs And Oil
Sex, Drugs And Oil
Joshua Zumbrun 09.10.08, 8:33 PM ET
WASHINGTON, D.C. –Who would have thought the sleepy Interior Department, with the dull task of managing federal land, would produce an office with the culture of an out-of-control frat house?
And yet. A report issued Sept. 10 by the department’s inspector general accuses employees in the department’s Denver Minerals Management Service of a litany of ethical violations, including drug abuse and engaging in sexual relationships with oil company employees.