About 250,000 barrels per day capacity of oil may be shut-in as the National Union of Petroleum and Natproduced by Shell in Nigeria ural Gas workers (NUPENG) vowed to ground activities of the oil multinational.
October 14th, 2008:
Nigeria: Nupeng Threatens to Ground Shell’s Operations
Chatting with Shell About CO2
Jeroen van der Veer, the chief executive of the oil company Royal Dutch Shell, discussed emissions and biodiversity offsets with the IHTs James Kanter.
Shell India’s Gas Users Switching to Cheaper Naphtha From LNG
Royal Dutch Shell Plc is selling liquefied natural gas in India at a third more than the price of naphtha, prompting users to switch to the cheaper feedstock, said an official at one of the nation's biggest fertilizer companies.
Shell R&D facility start-up soon
Shell Global Solutions International gasification and synthesis technology development manager H.P. Calis said Shell groups annual R&D expenditure totalled about US$1.2bil last year, the highest among oil and gas majors.
Market chaos won’t slow carbon scheme-Australia PM
Woodside, 34 percent-owned by Royal Dutch Shell Plc, said on Monday no projects would be shelved, but Voelte warned emissions trading would bring more unrest to Australia's economy and could cost jobs.
Urals Energy feeling chipper
Russian media reported this month that Royal Dutch Shell had pulled out of the talks because of the "high likelihood" that a key licence would be recalled.
Wind farms must be nearer coast to meet targets, says report
Without such measures, Britain will fail to meet the climate change targets it has pledged to the European Union at a time when companies such as Shell are pulling out of offshore schemes in pursuit of cheaper onshore wind opportunities in the US, it says
Limited storage forces importers to give away gas
The price of gas collapsed over the weekend as warm weather and full storage tanks forced importers to give away gas for - literally - nothing.
Ron Andrews Joins Shell Trading (US) Company as President and Vice President, Global Operations of Shell Trading
Ron Andrews, former Manager Rhine Supply for Shell's European downstream business, has been named President of Houston- based Shell Trading (US) Company and Vice President, Operations for Shell International Trading and Shipping Company Limited.
Iraq makes historic return to oil sales as PM calls for British troops to leave
Shell became the first big British oil company to open an office in Baghdad last month. In a signal it had Baghdad's seal of approval, the company was granted a £2 billion deal to modernise an existing gas field.
Shell Nigeria output drops to 412,000 b/d
CRUDE oil output of Nigerias largest upstream oil and gas exploration and production company, Shell Companies in Nigeria (SCiN), has dropped from an all time high in excess of 1.0 million barrels per day to an average 412,000 barrels per day owing to militancy in the Niger Delta and funding constraints.
Shell ‘wins’ Iraq gas contract
The [US] State Department has already admitted that it has advisers working on oil policy and there is a likelihood they may have drafted the Shell contract."
Companies with poor track records on environmental damage try for change
Companies like Shell are facing new threats to their business. Communities that oppose big mining and drilling projects have caused costly delays...