Despite Shell's state permits, the environmental groups found more than 1,000 occasions from 2003-06 when emissions exceeded hourly limits, which are meant to protect the public from acute, short-term harm. On three dates, records showed, Shell emitted more toxic compounds in a single day than its permits allowed in an entire year
June, 2009:
Shell pollution at Deer Park Refinery
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are owned by John Donovan. There is also a Wikipedia segment.
Showa Shell, Saudi Aramco to start solar power project
June 24 (Reuters) – Japanese oil distributor Showa Shell Sekiyu KK (5002.T) said on Wednesday it and Saudi Aramco Oil Co had agreed to start a feasibility study on solar power business in Saudi Arabia. Showa Shell, Japan’s fifth-biggest oil refiner, is investing in thin-film solar cells in a search for new revenue streams. (Reporting by Taiga Uranaka)
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Showa Shell Rises to Nine-Month High on Solar Project
June 24 (Bloomberg) -- Showa Shell Sekiyu KK, a Japanese refiner and solar-equipment maker, rose to the highest in nine months after saying it will build solar plants in Saudi Arabia to expand its alternative energy business.
Russia: Oil Exploration Law May Need Revisions
Royal Dutch Shell executives publicly complained about the rule earlier this year. The company's director for exploration and production, Malcolm Brinded, said in February that foreign investors wanted more confidence about accessing the oil and gas riches they discover.
Shell checks Nigeria oil ops after attack reports
Tue Jun 23, 2009 11:19am GMT
LAGOS (Reuters) – Royal Dutch Shell said on Tuesday it was still checking its oil operations in the Niger Delta after militants said they had launched three attacks against its facilities at the weekend.
The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) said on Sunday it had attacked Shell pipelines at Adamakiri and Kula, both in Rivers state in the eastern Niger Delta.
It said it had also attacked the Afremo offshore oilfields, which it believed were operated by Shell, and which it said were 14 miles from an export terminal through which crude oil from Shell’s Forcados fields is pumped.
Leaked Shell E-mail Reveals 62 Senior Executive Appointments
Wall Street Journal / Dow Jones Syndicated article “Leaked Shell E-mail Reveals 62 Senior Executive Appointments” published on 22/23 June 2009 and by other news sites
(http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20090622-708702.html)
WALL STREET JOURNAL/DOW JONES NEWSWIRES: Leaked Shell E-mail Reveals 62 Senior Executive Appointments (Alternative copy)
JUNE 22, 2009, 11:26 A.M. ET
Iraqi minister under pressure over oil contracts
Shell is bidding for the Kirkuk field in the north and the Akkas gasfield close to the border with Syria.
UPDATE: Leaked Shell E-mail Shows 62 Senior Executive Appointments
Monday June 22nd, 2009 / 17h48
(Adds detail, background.)
LONDON -(Dow Jones)- An internal e-mail from Royal Dutch Shell PLC (RDSB.LN) leaked to a blog critical of the company has revealed the appointments of 62 senior executives to new roles within the restructured company.
The e-mail dated June 16, sent by incoming Chief Executive Peter Voser, was published Saturday on the blog royaldutchshellplc.com. A Shell spokesman said the company does not comment on purported leaks.
Effective July 1, Ceri Powell, former Executive Vice President, or EVP, for Strategy becomes EVP for Exploration for the company’s international operations, the e-mail said. Dave Lawrence, former EVP for global exploration moves to head up exploration in the new Shell Americas division.
Leaked Shell E-mail Reveals 62 Senior Executive Appointments
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
JUNE 22, 2009, 11:26 A.M. ET
LONDON (Dow Jones)–An internal e-mail from Royal Dutch Shell PLC (RDSB.LN) leaked to a blog critical of the company has revealed the appointments of 62 senior executives to new roles within the restructured company.
The e-mail dated June 16, sent by incoming Chief Executive Peter Voser, was published Saturday on the blog royaldutchshellplc.com. A Shell spokesman said the company does not comment on purported leaks.
Effective July 1, Ceri Powell, former Executive Vice President, or EVP, for Strategy becomes EVP for Exploration for the company’s international operations, the e-mail said. Dave Lawrence, former EVP for global exploration moves to head up exploration in the new Shell Americas division.
Oil price fears following rebel attacks on Shell
Nigerian militants attacked three Shell pipelines in just 24 hours over the weekend sparking concerns that the escalating volatility could drive up oil prices.
Dutch Decision Has Implications for Global Class Actions
In 2004, Royal Dutch Shell investors brought a securities fraud class action suit in the U.S. District Court for New Jersey alleging injury from Shell's intentional overstatement of oil reserves. The suit followed Shell's announcement in February of 2004 that it had recategorized 20 percent of its total proven reserves base, and an ensuing internal audit which uncovered an email from a Shell executive stating, "I am becoming sick and tired about lying about the extent of our reserves issues."
Voserfication at Royal Dutch Shell Plc
By John Donovan
Update on Structural Changes to Shell management by Peter Voser
We have published online the latest information received from a Shell insider source on the restructuring being carried out by Peter Voser (above), the incoming Chief Executive of Royal Dutch Shell Plc.
This is part of what has been described on our Shell Blog as “Voserfication”.
Extract from the document:
On May 27, Peter Voser shared his plans for the future Shell structure and ways of working. Today, June 8, we announce the EC-1 organisational structure across all businesses and functions.
SHELL’S UNREGISTERED SECURITY MEN
IRMS, Farrell declared, "operates 100% within the law". But it has already emerged that the late Michael Dwyer, shot in Bolivia last April, did not have an appropriate Private Security Authority (PSA) 'static security' license for the work he performed when employed by IRMS in Mayo in 2008 (see The Phoenix, 22/5/09). Now a court case involving Shell to Sea campaigner Maura Harrington has thrown up the fact that there are other unlicensed IRMS employees.
Consultants queried on Corrib site
CONSULTANTS FOR Shell E&P Ireland have been asked if they had considered the submission of a former Army bomb disposal expert that the distance of houses from the high-pressure Corrib pipeline should be set at 500 metres and not at 140 metres as proposed.
Shell Confirms Third Attack On Nigerian Operations
Earlier Sunday, MEND, said in a statement that the Shell pipelines at Adamakiri and Kula locations were attacked, which was later confirmed by Shell.
Nigeria Militants: Shell Off-Shore Oil Field Attacked
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
JUNE 21, 2009, 7:46 A.M. ET
LONDON (Dow Jones)–Nigeria militants said Sunday they had attacked a Royal Dutch Shell PLC (RDSB.LN) offshore platform, the latest attack on the Anglo-Dutch oil major’s Nigeria operations.
In an e-mailed statement, the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta said; the militants “lashed out at the Shell Off-shore Ofirma oil fields today, Sunday, June 21, 2009 at about 0400 hours [local time] blowing up jacket A in the process.”
“The structure is currently engulfed in fire,” it added. A Shell spokesman didn’t return a request for comment.
Irish police say 15 masked men ransack Shell pipeline project, smash security fences
Washington Examiner
By: SHAWN POGATCHNIK
Associated Press
06/20/09 7:10 PM EDT
DUBLIN About 15 masked men armed with steel bars, chains and nail-studded clubs ransacked a Shell pipeline site, police said Thursday, in the latest trouble for Ireland’s most controversial energy project.
The vandals smashed security fences Wednesday shortly before midnight and forced unarmed guards on duty to retreat. One guard suffered an arm injury when struck by a steel pipe, according to Ireland’s national police force.
Shell has spent four years battling opponents of the project in both the courts and on the ground in rural County Mayo, where the global energy giant has government permission to pump natural gas from an untapped field 80 kilometers (50 miles) out in the Atlantic.
Names of over 60 Shell Exec appointments leaked
By John Donovan
Another leaked email from Peter Voser, the incoming Chief Executive of Royal Dutch Shell Plc has been published on the “unofficial” Shell website, royaldutchshellplc.com. The site has been described as “a hub for activists and disgruntled former employees”, “essential reading for anyone who covers Shell” and “a website regularly used by whistleblowers”.
The Voser email warns that the dramatic changes announced by him on 27 May at the Berlin Senior Executive Forum (AKA: “Funeral in Berlin“) will be “structural, behavioural & cultural”.
Nigeria militants say attack two Shell oil pipelines
LAGOS, June 21 (Reuters) – Nigeria’s main militant group said on Sunday its fighters had attacked two Royal Dutch Shell (RDSa.L) oil pipelines in Rivers state in the Niger Delta.
“At about 0230 (GMT), the hurricane pounded the Shell major pipeline located at Adamakiri before moving on to another major Shell ppeline in Kula at 0300,” the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) said in a statement.
There was no immediate independent confirmation.
(Reporting by Nick Tattersall; Editing by Angus MacSwan)
Leaked email from incoming Shell CEO Peter Voser reveals list of senior appointments
By John Donovan of Royal Dutch Shell Plc .com
Printed below is a self-explanatory leaked email from Peter Voser, the incoming Chief Executive of Royal Dutch Shell Plc.
Energy journalist, kindly mention this website if you use material from the leaked information which reveals a host of important senior appointments around the globe. Recent contact with a number of you has resulted in a series of articles some published internationally, including for example, a front page lead article in the Financial Times. We draw your attention to the sudden explosion of postings on our Shell Blog facility by disgruntled employees which have arisen from the changes.
Gazprom may work with Shell to build an LNG plant in Yamal
We can advance on Yamal projects, Medvedev told reporters today in Amsterdam, after meeting with Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende. Medvedev also met with Shell Chief Executive Officer Jeroen van der Veer, praising the companys Sakhalin-2 project with OAO Gazprom for producing Russias first liquefied natural gas this year.
Shell retiring CEO Jeroen van der Veer: a candid assessment by Paddy Briggs
By Paddy Briggs
Denis Healey recently said that he would prefer people to wonder why he hadn’t been Prime Minister rather than have them wondering why he had been. Jeroen van der Veer (above) was never meant to be Shell’s top man and had he not reached that position few would have wondered why. As he now retires, having held the job for five largely ineffective years, many observers will wonder why on earth he got the post in the first place. And virtually every stakeholder – employees, suppliers, customers, local communities, investors and pensioners has seen their status and well-being lessened over the five years that van der Veer has been at the helm.
The race is on to create a new world of energy
AN ARTICLE BY JEROEN VAN DER VEER
Sakhalin Energy CEO To Head Embattled Shell Africa Unit
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
JUNE 19, 2009, 10:53 A.M. ET
LONDON (Dow Jones)–Sakhalin Energy’s chief executive, Ian Craig, is to head Royal Dutch Shell PLC’s (RDSB.LN) embattled Africa unit, with the incumbent moving to the firm’s Australian business, according to an email Friday, as the oil major’s corporate shakeup continues.
In comments sent to Dow Jones Newswires via the Shell press office, Ann Pickard, Shell’s current vice president for exploration and production in Africa, said: “Major changes take place in Shell’s leadership, and after four exciting years running our upstream business in Africa, I will look after our gas and oil production in Australia.”
Sakhalin Energy CEO Ian Craig key player in Shell Executive reshuffle
Ian Craig, CEO, Sakhalin Energy
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
Shell Mulls Sakhalin JV CEO To Head Africa Op – Source
JUNE 19, 2009, 5:28 A.M. ET
LONDON (Dow Jones)–Royal Dutch Shell PLC (RDBS.LN) is considering Sakhalin Energy Chief Executive Ian Craig to head its embattled West Africa operation, a person familiar with the matter said this week, as Shell’s incoming chief executive, Peter Voser, extends its corporate shakeup.
As head of Sakhalin Energy Investment Co. Ltd., Craig presided over Shell’s single largest and most challenging oil and gas project before OAO Gazprom (GAZP.LN) took control in 2007.
Shell Confirms Gro Gas Discovery In Norwegian Sea
The discovery is estimated to hold between 10-100 billion cubic meters of recoverable gas according to the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate, which noted Gro is located in the greatest water depth of any Norwegian discovery to date.
185,000 barrels shut in as militants hit oil facility
In a statement yesterday, Shell's spokesman, Precious Okolobo, said: "SPDC joint venture can confirm that the Trans Ramos Pipeline at Aghoro-2 community in Bayelsa State was attacked last night (June 17).
Santos cements gas supply deal with Petronas
Analysts expect the consortiums to consolidate into two groupings and believe Santos/Petronas and BG are well positioned. Origin/Conoco has yet to secure a foundation customer, while the Shell/Arrow team have the smallest reserves.
Oil piracy and resistance in Ireland
Letters
The Guardian, Friday 19 June 2009
A pity that John Vidal, in his account of indigenous resistance to oilcompanies (‘We are fighting for our lives and our dignity‘, 13 June) did not pick up on your excellent article “Fuelling the fury” (G2, 10 June) about Shell’s gas project at Rossport in Ireland. If he had, he would have discovered a drastic escalation of violence there on the very day “Fuelling the Fury” was published.
A local fisherman, Pat O’Donnell, had his boat hijacked out at sea by armed and masked men and sunk. He had long been protesting against Shell’s pipe-laying operations as destructive to his offshore livelihood; it now looks as though someone has decided that his livelihood should in any event be destroyed, to ensure he’ll be incapable of further maritime protest. Shell has denied any involvement of its employees in this act of piracy, but it appears someone else may have intervened.
Margaretta D’Arcy and John Arden
Galway, Ireland
Shell Nigeria case may temper Big Oil policies
By Rebekah Kebede – Analysis
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Royal Dutch Shell’s (RDSa.L) cash payment of $15.5 million — roughly four hours of its 2008 profits — to settle a human rights case in Nigeria may not be enough to change Big Oil’s policies in the developing world.
A better incentive may be a desire to avoid the high legal costs and the bad publicity from the 13-year case accusing Shell of abuses in the Niger Delta region.
The suit involved incidents including the 1995 hangings of author and environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight other protesters by Nigeria’s then-military government.
Nigeria Moves Against Militants in Delta
What began as a mission by the government to rescue the missing servicemen and crew appears to have evolved into an effort to rid the entire Niger Delta of militant strongholds, though no one knows exactly how many there are or how many militants use them.
Shell, Nigeria, Militant Attacks, and the Escalating Price of Oil
By John Donovan
The petroleum industry in Nigeria is the largest industry and main generator of GDP in the West African nation which is also the continent’s most populous. Since the British discovered oil in the Niger Delta in the late 1950s, the oil industry has been marred by political and economic strife largely due to a long history of corrupt military regimes and complicity of multinational corporations, notably Royal Dutch Shell.
The above is the current opening paragraph of the Wikipedia article Petroleum industry in Nigeria.
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Ireland: Shell’s new Nigeria?
ZDNet
June 17th, 2009
Just as Shell brings to a close a difficult chapter in its troubled relationship with the Ogoni people in Nigeria, its relationship with community groups in the West Ireland appears to be reaching new lows. Shell is the senior partner with Statoil and Marathon in an effort to bring off shore natural gas reserves on to the national grid in Ireland. Unfortunately for Shell, the project has run into fairly determined resistance from a range of activists who variously raise objections on the grounds of safety, unfair compensation for compulsory purchase orders, an unfair deal with the Irish government and over the environmental toll of the project.
Nigerian Rebels Claim to Destroy Shell Crude Pipeline
Bloomberg.com
By Aaron Sheldrick
June 18 (Bloomberg) — Nigerian rebels said they destroyed a major crude oil pipeline in Bayelsa state owned by Royal Dutch Shell Plc, Europes biggest oil company, according to an e-mailed statement.
High explosives were used to breach the delivery line for the Forcados export terminal at 8:30 p.m. yesterday, the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta said in the statement today. Crude oil rose after the statement was issued.
Shell should take a cue from Chevron and vacate the Niger Delta region to avoid collateral damage to their investment and death to staff, rebel spokesman Jomo Gbomo said in the statement.
Nigeria Moves to Oust Militants
The military offensive, if successful, could free up hundreds of thousands of barrels of oil for global markets for Royal Dutch Shell PLC, Chevron, Eni SpA and other companies that drill here.
Nigeria rebels say attack Shell pipeline in delta
Wed Jun 17, 2009 6:59pm EDT
ABUJA, June 17 (Reuters) – Nigeria’s most prominent militant group said on Wednesday it had sabotaged a Royal Dutch Shell (RDSa.L) oil pipeline in the Niger Delta, the latest attack in its “all-out war” against the military and the oil sector.
The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) said it sabotaged a Shell pipeline in southern Nigeria’s Bayelsa state late on Wednesday, its first attack outside Delta state since the military last month declared its biggest military offensive against rebels in years.
The Queen’s birthday honours: a lean year for environment heroes
Two OBEs for Shell employees, but only a handful for conservationists and environmentalists
Gongs all round in the Queen’s birthday honours list for top corporates and scientists involved in the most controversial environment issues. With woeful timing, in the week that Shell settled £9.6m on the Ogoni families who had accused it of complicity in the deaths of Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight other activists, there was a knighthood for James Smith, chairman of Shell UK. Coincidentally, there was also an OBE for former top Shell man Chris Haynes who was employed by Nigeria LNG to extinguish Shell and other oil companies’ flares in the Niger delta. Sadly, Chris, Shell and Co have only managed to stop about 40% of the flaring in eight years, thereby infuriating the Nigerian government, the courts and the people who must live with the flares.
Legal & General says that investors must be allowed to seek changes
He added that being subject to an investor veto would have focused minds at Royal Dutch Shell, whose remuneration report was rejected by 59 per cent of voting shareholders last month. No votes on remuneration should be binding, he said.
‘Exclusive’ Shell deal challenged in Nigeria
FAMILY members of three Nigerian Ogoni minority activists executed in 1995 say they have been excluded from a $A19.5 million settlement reached with Royal Dutch Shell.
Exxon taking more active role in NAM joint venture company with Shell?
By John Donovan
Historically Exxon have kept very quiet about their involvement in the Dutch company Nederlandse Aardolie Maatschappij (NAM) which operates the Groningen (Slochteren) natural gas field in The Netherlands.
The average Dutchman thinks that NAM is a government entity rather than a 50/50 joint venture between the two oil giants Royal Dutch Shell Plc and ExxonMobil Corp. So the comments of Exxon Chief Executive Rex Tillerson reported in a Bloomberg article today, suggest there may be significant changes underway in the operation of NAM.
Exxon Set to Tap Enormous Slochteren Field for 50 More Years
Exxon operates the field with Royal Dutch Shell Plc, Europes biggest oil company, through Nederlandse Aardolie Maatschappij.
Shell Says Nigerian Exports Will Be Disrupted for a Fifth Month
Bloomberg.com
By Dulue Mbachu and Alex Kwiatkowski
June 17 (Bloomberg) — Royal Dutch Shell Plc told customers that Nigerian shipments will be disrupted for a fifth month in July as violence escalates in Africas largest oil producer.
Shell suspended export obligations on crude exports from the Forcados terminal inNigeria to cover the remaining loading program for June and July, company spokesman Precious Okolobo said by phone from Lagos today.
A government offensive against armed groups since May has resulted in intense fighting in the western part of the oil- producing Niger delta region, where the Forcados terminal is located. Militant attacks have cut Nigerias oil exports by more than 20 percent since 2006.
Gazprom sees Sakhalin LNG exports at 5 mln T
Gazprom's export chief Alexander Medvedev told a news conference Sakhalin-2, which also involves Royal Dutch Shell and Japan's Mitsui and Mitsubishi, would reach target capacity of 9.6 million tonnes next year.
Shell’s “humanitarian” gesture in settling out of court is entirely self-serving – Kate Allen, Director, Amnesty International UK
All of this could have been avoided had the oil companies been held properly accountable for decades of adverse impacts on human rights.
Exxon Chief Says Oils Advance Reflects Weak Dollar
Tillerson was in The Netherland to attend the 50-year anniversary of the discovery of the Slochteren gas field. Exxon Mobil operates the field with Royal Dutch Shell Plc, Europes biggest oil company. The site has generated more than 160 billion euros ($221 billion) in revenue for the Dutch state, according to Maria van der Hoeven, the minister of Economic Affairs.
Why oil is on the rise again
Oil shot past $70 a barrel last week, meaning the cost per barrel has doubled since hitting a low in mid-February. And the swiftness of that move has plenty of observers wondering if we're headed toward another period of even more dramatic price gains. Among the oil insiders worried about such a scenario is Royal Dutch Shell CEO Jeroen van der Veer, a 38-year veteran of the energy giant, who is scheduled to retire June 30...
Fishermen seek ‘vigorous’ inquiry into sinking
In its first public response since the sinking of the 12-metre Iona Isle off Erris Head in the early hours of last Thursday, the association representing the north Mayo inshore fleet has described it as a sinister turn of events in the ongoing saga that is the Corrib gas project.
Only faith can solve the energy crisis
Scandinavia is one of the most secularised corners of the world and by reputation one of the most rational. So I was astonished last week to hear the Finnish chairman of Royal Dutch Shell (and of Nokia) Jorma Ollila, say that the world's energy crisis would not be solved unless everyone turned off the lights when they left an empty room.
Gas Station Lease Dispute Will Get U.S. Supreme Court Scrutiny
June 15 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. Supreme Court will use a case involving Shell Oil Co. to determine how much leverage oil companies have to change their leases with tens of thousands of independent service station owners.
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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A head-cut image of Alfred Donovan (now deceased) appears courtesy of The Wall Street Journal.
