Coweta County and the Coweta County Water and Sewerage Authority joined in filing suit today in Fulton County State Court against Shell Oil Company and others for negligence, breach of contract, product liability, fraud, and violations of the Georgia Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act over the misrepresentation, marketing and sale of Blu-Max pipe, which uses a polybutylene resin manufactured by Shell.
October 23rd, 2008:
Shell Oil sued in U.S. Courts on multiple charges including fraud and violation of the Corrupt Corrupt Organizations Act
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INTERVIEW-Oil majors to gain from credit crisis-Arcadia head
SINGAPORE, Oct 23 (Reuters) - Oil majors like Shell and Total may emerge unexpected winners from the global credit crisis, as their trading teams fill the void left by battered investment banks, the head of independent trader Arcadia said on Wednesday.
Caltex Australia Says Carbon Costs Threaten Refining Industry
Oct. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Australia's oil-refining industry would be threatened by ``high'' costs for carbon emissions permits under the government's proposed trading system, said Caltex Australia Ltd., the nation's biggest refiner.
BAE chief quizzed in suspected bribery probe *(Shell has been described as playing a money-laundering role in BAE/Saudi oil-for-arms scandal)
The BAE deal is one of a number being probed by the SFO since it caused an international outcry in 2006 by scrapping a probe into the groups supply of tens of billions of pounds of arms to Saudi Arabia.
Size is critical issue at Marathon
But at the same time, while Devon Energy and Anadarko Petroleum, two similar businesses, have been long rumoured as potential takeover targets forExxonMobil and Royal Dutch Shell, those deals have not yet occurred.
Big groups draw back from grand gestures
The stalling of credit and the drop in share prices may at last provide companies such as BP, ExxonMobil and Royal Dutch Shell with a way to boost their shrinking production by snapping up assets of overleveraged explorers.
Shell’s technology chief has his eye on innovation
Jan van der Eijk, Royal Dutch Shell's chief technology officer, oversees the oil major's technology initiatives, such as use of seismic imaging to map out possible oil deposits beneath the sea floor, mining Canada's oil sands and squeezing more oil from existing wells.