Last month, the Iraqi Oil Ministry initialled service contracts with seven foreign consortia to develop fields including supergiant Majnoon, which was awarded to Royal Dutch Shell (RDSa.L) and Malaysia's Petronas [PETR.UL] in a December energy auction.
January 5th, 2010:
Iraq cabinet ratifies four major oilfield deals
The giant oil field sold for a song by Shell
Financial Times: Pioneer will be closely watched as it ventures into true frontier
By Ed Crooks
Published: January 5 2010 02:00 | Last updated: January 5 2010 02:00
Cairn Energy made its name spotting an opportunity that large oil companies had missed. Its giant fields in Rajasthan, in north-west India, which came into production last year, had been rejected as unpromising by Royal Dutch Shell.
Shell is fined over accident at oil refinery
The Times
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Shell and two of its contractors were fined a combined £283,000 by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) yesterday over an accident at an oil refinery that left a worker paralysed from the waist down.
The HSE said the accident at the Stanlow Manufacturing Complex at Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, in 2007, in which a 500-kilogram container fell 30ft on to a walkway, was totally avoidable. The container of waste material landed on Stephen Rizzotti, 42 who was employed by a Shell contractor as a manager at the refinery breaking his back, pelvis and both legs, and leaving him wheelchair-bound.
Niger Delta Group Floors Shell in the Hague
Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria has described the ruling of a court at The Hague, Netherlands affirming its jurisdiction over the operations of Shell Nigeria as the first victory of an oppressed people over an unrepentant corporation.
SHELL IS FINED OVER ACCIDENT AT OIL REFINERY
The health and safety executive (HSE) has imposed a 116,000 pound fine on Shell (RDSa.L), in connection with an accident at its Stanlow complex in Elsmere Port that left a worker paralysed from the waist down. Describing the accident as being “totally avoidable“, the HSE also fined two of Shell’s contractors. Shell pleaded guilty to contravening the Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations 1998 and said procedures had been put in place to prevent a recurrence of the incident.