Shell Canada is vowing to tighten security following the weekend arrest of 16 Greenpeace demonstrators at an oilsands project northeast of Edmonton.
October 5th, 2009:
Greenpeace protest prompts Shell security review
Shell Receives Design To End Nigeria Gas Flaring -Official
IBADAN, Nigeria (Dow Jones)--Shell Petroleum Development Co., a subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell PLC (RDSB), said Monday that it has taken delivery of a 900 million naira ($6.12 million) detailed engineering design for a project that will put out gas flares in three fields in Nigeria's western Niger Delta.
Nigerian rebel leaders accept amnesty
FINANCIAL TIMES
By Tom Burgis in Lagos
Published: October 5 2009 03:00
Three militant commanders responsible for many of the attacks that have curtailed Nigeria’s oil production have agreed to lay down their weapons after accepting the government’s offer of amnesty at the 11th hour.
Hunger for biofuels will gobble up wheat surplus
Wilton will require 1.2 million tonnes of the crop to produce 450 million litres of wheat-based biofuels. Built with capital supplied by Carlyle Group and Riverstone Holdings, the American private equity companies, it will supply Shell with the renewable fuel for use in cars and lorries in Britain.
Shell hatchet man Walter van de Vijver
By “TomPain”
The article on Walter Van de Vijver was almost sympathetic. He was the designated hatchet man and he loved it. Everywhere he went lay-offs and destruction followed. He was fired because he wrote in an e-mail to Watts that he was tired of lying about the reserves. He intentionally lied and screwed the company and the stock-holders hoping he could get promoted and dump it on some other poor sucker before it blew up. This was where all of the pressure came from to jack up the reserves numbers. I loved reading about how he was forced out, almost makes it worth while. Evidently he brought his great charm and warmth to his new job, so much so that he got fired from the company he founded.