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April 13th, 2009:

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Sunday 12 April 2009

Can you please try to take a neutral stance on the case of Shell and Ken Saro-Wiwa in Nigeria (“Shell in court over alleged role in Nigeria executions”, News, last week)? Shell does not have a majority stake in its Nigerian ventures; rather, the Nigerian government owns a 65% interest. The government does essentially nothing for the indigenous people in the region; Shell builds schools, hospitals, roads, power plants and other facilities.

This isn’t to say that Shell is perfect, but your readers have a right to know who actually owns the oil and gas and whom the security forces primarily serve. read more

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A dangerously simplistic portrait of the Niger Delta

Sir, Doubtless Shell and its lawyers are well able to make their own defence against charges being levelled at their behaviour in the oil-bearing Ogoniland region of the Niger Delta and their alleged complicity in the execution of Ken Saro-Wiwa in 1995 (“Shell faces Saro-Wiwa death claim”, April 4)

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Shell, China Oil Cos May Make Joint Iraq Oilfield Bid -Source

In return for taking CNPC along in Iraq's landmark first postwar bidding for development service contracts in its huge and under-developed oil and gas fields, Shell hopes to win CNPC's blessing for a production sharing contract for the Jinqiu gas field in China's southwestern Sichuan province, the person also said.

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Falling production to inevitably alter tilt Big Oil’s playing field

The Goldman analysts relegated BP, the former British Petroleum, to "sell" territory because of rapidly falling production. Goldman thinks 2009 will be BP's last year of production growth. Declines of 2 per cent a year after 2010 are likely because it has few new projects in the pipeline and recent startups have short lifespans.

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Nigeria: 18 boatloads of fighters hit facility run by Royal Dutch Shell’s local joint venture

Official: Gunmen attack Nigerian oil facility

� AP

2009-04-13 09:36:04

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) – A private security official says gunmen commandeered a Nigerian naval vessel and killed one sailor during an attack an oil facility in Africa’s biggest oil producer.

The official said about 18 boatloads of fighters hit the facility run by Royal Dutch Shell’s local joint venture early Monday in Nigeria’s southern Bayelsa state. The official spoke on condition of anonymity due to prohibitions on dealings with the media. read more

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Shell pours more money into its stricken Dutch pension scheme

Financial News Online Mark Cobley
13 Apr 2009 

Oil group Royal Dutch Shell has unveiled a multi-million euro rescue package that will increase pension contributions by a factor of more than six to its stricken Dutch scheme, which slid into deficit during the financial crisis last year.
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