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October, 2010:

Shell sees 2011 as “year of choices” on biofuels

By Scott Malone

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts Wed Oct 13, 2010 (Reuters) – Royal Dutch Shell, which is investigating about 10 second-generation biofuel technologies that would use nonfood raw materials, expects to narrow its research to about five options next year, its top scientist said.

“I am putting a lot of time and energy into sustainable biofuels, second-generation biofuels, in essence, the conversion of redundant material, straw, into ethanol,” Gerald Schotman, the Anglo-Dutch oil company’s chief technology officer said on Wednesday. “We’re also playing with ideas on algae, growing algae and then converting algae directly into gasoline and diesel.” read more

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Shell Recruits Debevoise Litigation Partner as New Legal Chief

Friederike Heine

Legal Week

October 14, 2010

Debevoise & Plimpton litigation partner Peter Rees is set to leave the firm to take up a new role as legal director at Shell.

Rees, who will join the oil and gas giant on Nov. 15, will take over as legal director at the beginning of next year when current incumbent Beat Hess retires.

Rees will take responsibility for Shell’s global legal function and will advise group management on all legal matters. The Shell legal function comprises 1,200 staff, of which around 720 are lawyers and 80 are intellectual property professionals. read more

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Comment on Wikipedia controversy

COMMENT FROM A FORMER SHELL EMPLOYEE (A RELIABLE SOURCE KNOWN TO US) WHO RETAINS CONTACT WITH SHELL INSIDERS

I am curious. Did this dust up with Wikipedia occur just after you notified RD Shell of your article about the US Dept. of Defense confirming that Shell was the object of a Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) counter-intelligence operation because of their (alleged) attempts to gain unlawful access to highly classified military technology, including technology related to the design/fabrication of nuclear weapons?

(Or perhaps it was caused by the recent dredging up of the story of their less than responsible manufacturing and distribution history of highly toxic and long lived pesticides, etc. Maybe it was both.) read more

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Instant reaction on Wikipedia

By John Donovan

Within minutes of me publishing the article Wikipedia Klan exposed, the following posting was made on the Wikipedia nomination for deletion page for royaldutchshellplc.com.

Delete not enough coverage in reliable sources to have its own article. Blog sites criticizing large corporations are like teeth, we all have a mouthful. This article should have borne in mind that Wikipedia is not a platform for free speech, it is an encyclopedia.–?IanMacM? (talk to me) 16:13, 13 October 2010 (UTC) read more

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Wikipedia Klan exposed

By John Donovan

Within literally a few minutes of publication yesterday of my article Ku Klux Klan culture at Wikipedia: secrecy and censorship a link to the article was inserted into the Wikipedia nominated for deletion page for the Wikipedia article… royaldutchshellplc.com.

This is the article under heavy attack by persons/ parties choosing to conceal their identities, motives and background.  The article in its current form was authored by a Wikipedia editor, not by me. I have not edited the article since June 2009.

Shortly thereafter the following message was inserted on to my Wikipedia User page…

This was instant retribution by persons/parties unknown in response to me exercising my right to freedom of expression/freedom of speech. An absolute disgrace.

Yesterday evening I received a message from the founder of MyWikiBiz which goes a long way to confirming that my concerns about Wikipedia articles relating to businesses being wide open to manipulation, so they end up being little more than adverts, are well-founded. This is true in respect of the Wikipedia article about Royal Dutch Shell. My own website, with publishes ALL news articles about Shell, negative and positive in nature, provides a much more accurate picture of Shell than the sanitized heavily censored Wikipedia articles. read more

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Is Shell warming up BP for a friendly takeover bid?

By Alex Brummer
Last updated at 10:29 AM on 13th October 2010

Friends like these…

There has never been much love lost between British-based oil majors Royal Dutch Shell and BP.

But Shell chief executive Peter Voser’s attack on BP over the design of the Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico looks over the top.

He accused BP of using cheaper options in the drilling and claimed Shell would have handled matters differently. No doubt it would, in much the same way as it found its own creative way of measuring its oil reserves in 2004 that led to a clear-out of top management and regulatory fines. read more

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Royal Dutch Shell wades in with attack on BP over spill

By Hugo Duncan and Simon Duke

Last updated at 12:49 AM on 13th October 2010

The boss of Royal Dutch Shell last night launched a blistering attack on beleaguered rival BP over the devastating Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

Peter Voser said his company would never have made the mistakes that led to the death of 11 workers on the Deepwater Horizon rig and the biggest environmental disaster in US history.

‘Shell clearly would have drilled this well in a different way and would have had more options to prevent the accident from happening,’ he said. read more

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Shell sings praises of natural gas

LONDON, Oct. 12 (UPI) -- British concerns about natural gas imports are overblown as new supplies are creating a gas revolution, an executive from Royal Dutch Shell said in London.

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Shell gives MIT $25m for gas, oil research

Royal Dutch Shell PLC will give the Massachusetts Institute of Technology $25 million to research new, efficient technologies to help find and deliver oil and natural gas, officials are expected to announce today.

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Europe Considers a Curb on Deepwater Drilling

LONDON — As the United States lifted its moratorium on deepwater oil drilling Tuesday, the European Commission was on the verge of proposing a curb on drilling in extreme conditions until an inquiry into the causes of the fatal explosion at a BP rig in the Gulf of Mexico was completed.

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Iraq Oil Is ‘Game Changer’

OCTOBER 13, 2010

Production Revival Will Challenge Big Suppliers Like Saudis, IEA Chief Says

Reuters: Iraqi police check oil pipelines during a patrol at the Shueiba refinery in the country’s southern province of Basra in August.

By GUY CHAZAN

The revival in Iraqi oil production will be a “game-changer” for global oil supplies and a challenge for other big oil producers like Saudi Arabia, the International Energy Agency said Tuesday

Fatih Birol, the IEA’s chief economist, said in an interview that 20 years from now, Iraq could be pumping two to three times more than the 2.5 million barrels a day it currently produces—”comforting” oil markets worried about shrinking supplies, and possibly buffering against price spikes. read more

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Shell attacks BP over oil well safety, as US lifts ban on Gulf of Mexico drilling

Peter Voser, the chief executive of Royal Dutch Shell, has strongly criticised BP’s well design and internal inquiry into the causes of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

By Rowena Mason, Energy Correspondent
Published: 8:58PM BST 12 Oct 2010

The Deepwater Horizon exploded and sank on April 20, killing 11 men Photo: AP

BP’s report into how the Deepwater Horizon exploded and sank on April 20, killing 11 men, cleared the company of any serious negligence.

But Mr Voser said to “correctly investigate” the company ought to have looked more closely at its own well design.

The oil executive sought to distance the industry from BP’s mistakes, saying his own company would have had more safety barriers in place. read more

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Ku Klux Klan culture at Wikipedia: secrecy and censorship

Royal Dutch Shell management is obsessed with my Wikipedia editing/contributions. Among the documents Shell has been legally obliged to supply to me are several Shell internal documents and emails, some marked confidential, which discussed my editing on Wikipedia and the possible impact on shareholders and students. There was also discussion about the risk of Shell being caught if it tried to edit the material.

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Shell criticizes BP oil spill report, well design

By Tom Bergin

LONDON | Tue Oct 12, 2010 7:23am EDT

LONDON (Reuters) – The chief executive of Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSa.L) criticized the investigation that rival BP Plc (BP.L) conducted into the causes of its Gulf of Mexico oil spill, and the design BP chose for its blown out well.

Peter Voser said that to correctly investigate the accident one had to examine the thinking behind the particular well design BP used.

The Macondo well design included a number of cheaper options, including the use of a single tube from the surface to the reservoir, rather than two overlapping tubes, and U.S. lawmakers said these choices reflected a tendency on BP’s part to put profits before safety. read more

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Shell CEO: Oil Output At Iraq Majnoon Field Up To 70,000 B/D

OCTOBER 12, 2010, 6:07 A.M. ET

LONDON (Dow Jones)–Royal Dutch Shell PLC (RDSB.LN) has already raised oil production from Iraq’s Majnoon field to 70,000 barrels a day, from 45,000 barrels a day previously, the company’s Chief Executive Peter Voser said Tuesday.

The risk of operating in Iraq has increased in recent months, but operations are still going well, he said. The production increase required “relatively little investment because infrastructure is already there,” he said. read more

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Voser – Shell would not have made BP’s mistakes

FT: October 12, 2010 11:05am

Oil & Money conference in London

The keynote speech this morning was delivered by Peter Voser, the CEO of Shell. He talked about the role natural gas has to play in global energy supplies, and especially in the UK, which our energy editor Sylvia Pfeifer wrote about in today’s FT.

But when it came to the Q&A sessions, there are no prizes for guessing what came up first: the BP oil spill. How far would Voser go in criticising his company’s main rival? How confident was he that such an incident would not happen to Shell?
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Shell CEO:UK Should Divert Investment From Offshore Wind To Gas

OCT 12, 2010

LONDON (Dow Jones)–The U.K. government should divert investment from offshore wind power to natural gas exploration and production, Peter Voser, chief executive of energy giant Royal Dutch Shell PLC (RDSB.LN), said Tuesday.

It will be impossible to hit 2020 carbon dioxide emission reductions targets without increased use of natural gas in the country, Voser said at the Oil and Money conference in London. Using natural gas instead of coal is also a cheaper way to cut emissions than offshore wind, he said. read more

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Shell’s Malcolm Brinded moves to Network Rail board

London Evening Standard

12.10.10

Network Rail appointed a new non-executive director today under moves to reshape its board.

Malcolm Brinded, Royal Dutch Shell‘s executive director, joined NR with his appointment to be confirmed at next year’s annual meeting.

NR chairman Rick Haythornthwaite said: “My priority when joining Network Rail was to reshape the non-executive element of the board. Building on the success of the current and former non-executives, this reflects the change agenda on which the company is now embarked. read more

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Shell says opposes tougher EU carbon cut

By Gerard Wynn LONDON | Mon Oct 11, 2010 12:35pm EDT

(Reuters) – Anglo-Dutch oil company Royal Dutch Shell (RDSa.L) opposed tougher European Union carbon emissions targets, as proposed by some EU countries, the company’s head of carbon dioxide (CO2) said.

A unilateral EU move to tighten its carbon caps before other countries followed suit would entail “very real business risks,” Graeme Sweeney told Reuters on Monday.

An EU draft document said in April a 30 percent target would be “technically feasible and economically affordable,” especially after recession had cut EU industrial carbon emissions. read more

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The Life and Death of the Corporate Alien Tort

The corporate defendants who settled are probably not happy either. With Drimmer's help, we count at least 17 settlements flowing from alien tort suits. These include three large Holocaust agreements ($5.25 billion from German state and industry, $1.25 billion from Swiss banks and $210 million from Austrian state and industry); a reported $30 million from Unocal for Burmese pipeline allegations; a reported $20 million from U.S. clothing retailers for Saipan sweatshop allegations; and $15.5 million in Wiwa, which (like Kiobel) arose out of Shell's activity in the Niger delta.

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Alleged Shell deception in Sri Lanka

PLEASE NOTE THAT WE DO NOT KNOW IF THE INFORMATION BELOW, RECEIVED BY EMAIL, IS GENUINE.  IT TALKS ABOUT SHELL DECEPTION AND A HIDDEN AGENDA BY SHELL, SO IT CERTAINLY SEEMS AUTHENTIC.

Royal Dutch Shell is having serious issues in Sri Lanka with its joint partners.

This was traced by The Global Complain System of Royal Dutch Shell. You may get additional information by going to https://www.compliance-helpline.com/Shell.jsp at any time.

Here is the Report

Attention: Chairman, Royal Dutch Shell

SHELL DIVESTMENT & DISTRIBUTOR INVESTMENT letter to Country Manager

2nd October 2010

Mr. Walter Sanchez
Chairman & Country Managing Director
Shell Gas Lanka limited
498, R.A.De Mel Mawatha
Colombo. read more

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Shell offers spill system in Alaska

Financial Times

By Sheila McNulty in Houston Published: October 10 2010

Royal Dutch Shell  is offering to spend “tens and tens of millions of dollars” building an oil spill containment system for Arctic conditions if the US government permits it to drill offshore Alaska.

The bid is a last-ditch effort by Shell to advance a $3.5bn investment it has made to drill in Alaska.

Pete Slaiby, Shell Alaska vice-president, warned the situation could get “acrimonious’’ if Shell took legal action to recover losses caused by government barriers to drilling on leases it had paid for. But he said he thinks Shell will gain the permits. read more

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Potentially toxic fate of gray whales in Beaufort and Chukchi seas

BY A FORMER EMPLOYEE OF SHELL OIL USA

John,

I don’t have time to spend writing much of an article for you on Alaska and Shell’s drilling plans, but I will make an observation that I am sure the WWF has considered, but then maybe not.

California gray whales migrate to the Beaufort and Chukchi seas every summer to feed. These areas are their summer feeding grounds. Literally. Gray whales are interesting because unlike other baleen whales the gray whales are bottom feeders. They scoop up large amounts of mud off the ocean bottom and then strain it through their baleen plates for shrimp, crustaceans, small fish, etc. read more

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Persistence: Shell applies again for offshore permit

Daily News – Miner
newsminer.com

10 October 2010
Editorial

Shell isn’t giving up easily on its investment in oil fields off Alaska’s coastline. Last week, the oil company once again applied to federal officials for a permit to drill an exploratory well in the Beaufort Sea — this time in the summer of 2011. It’s in Alaska’s interest that the process works this time and the company gains the necessary permission slips.

Shell’s efforts to drill exploratory wells on its Beaufort Sea offshore leases have been stymied for several years by court cases and administrative delays. It secured a significant victory in court this spring, with a decision from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that upheld Shell’s exploration plans for both the Beaufort and Chukchi seas.

Then the BP well in the Gulf of Mexico blew out and took Shell’s plans for this season with it.

In the wake of that explosion, Shell voluntarily strengthened its plans for dealing with any oil release from its proposed exploratory wells in the Arctic. It has committed to have a containment system on hand that would capture oil from a blowout, for example. Such a system was absent in the Gulf well disaster and, once it was built, didn’t work in the mile-deep waters. read more

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royaldutchshewllplc.com Wikipedia article October 2010

NOT IN THE WIKIPEDIA ARTICLE: WHAT IS REFERRED TO AS "A THIRD LAW SUIT" WAS IN FACT THE FOURTH. SHELL PAID ALL LEGAL COSTS AND JOHN DONOVAN RECEIVED A SECRET PAYMENT AS PART OF THE SETTLEMENT WHICH WAS NOT DISCLOSED TO THE TRIAL JUDGE. THE PAYMENT MADE BY SHELL TO THE SOLICITORS ACTING FOR JOHN DONOVAN WAS APPROVED BY SHELL CHAIRMAN, MARK MOODY-STUART, THE HUSBAND OF JUDY MOODY-STUART, WHO HAD PERSONALLY INTERVENED IN THE SAGA. SHELL SETTLED SEVEN COURT ACTIONS INCLUDING TWO FOR LIBEL BROUGHT BY THE DONOVANS. SHELL ALSO LOST THE WIPO ACTION BROUGHT AGAINST ALFRED DONOVAN BY SHELL INTERNATIONAL. SHELL HAS NOT WON A SINGLE CASE AGAINST THE DONOVANS

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royaldutchshellplc.com Wikipedia article December 2007 version

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Revision as of 19:16, 24 December 2007

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By Dan Healing, Calgary Herald October 8, 2010 2:05 PM Shell Canada has withdrawn its regulatory application to build a 400,000-barrel-per-day oilsands upgrader, a four-phase project estimated by analysts to have a price tag of around $30 billion.
Instead, John Abbott, executive vice-president for heavy oil, told reporters Friday morning the Canadian arm of giant Royal Dutch Shell plans a three-phase program to boost output from existing oilsands mining and upgrader facilities by 85,000 bpd.

“We have decided to withdraw the application for our new upgrading facility,” Abbott said in Calgary. “That was a proposed 100 per cent Shell equity, 400,000-bpd facility which could have been constructed adjacent to our existing facilities in Fort Saskatchewan (northeast of Edmonton).

“But I remind you Shell has existing licences for 290,000 bpd of bitumen upgrading capacity already at the Scotford upgrader and we already have approval for 400,000 bpd of what we call bitumen-blending facilities.” read more

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Total, Shell Keep Line Open With Tehran Despite US Claim-Sources

Treacherous conniving Royal Dutch Shell:

LONDON (Dow Jones)–Total SA and Royal Dutch Shell PLC discreetly contacted Iranian authorities last week, seeking to reassure the Islamic Republic after telling the U.S. they have no plans for further investments for now, people familiar with the matter said in recent days.”

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

OCTOBER 8, 2010

By Benoit Faucon
Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES

LONDON (Dow Jones)–Total SA (TOT) and Royal Dutch Shell PLC (RDSB.LN) discreetly contacted Iranian authorities last week, seeking to reassure the Islamic Republic after telling the U.S. they have no plans for further investments for now, people familiar with the matter said in recent days.


Total and Shell contacted Iran as the U.S. announced commitments by the companies “to terminate their investments and avoid any new activity in Iran’s energy sector.” The disclosure was made by the State Department in a Sept. 30 press release, which also said Statoil ASA (STO) and Eni SpA (E) had made similar commitments.
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Shell’s plans raise questions

By BILL WHITE
[email protected]

Published: October 6th, 2010 09:46 PM

Cleaning up oil spills in Arctic waters off Alaska’s coast is fraught with risks and unknowns, the staff of a national commission on offshore drilling said in a new report.

The challenges include:

• Extreme weather.

• Finding oil trapped under an ice sheet.

• Containing and cleaning spilled oil in broken ice.

• Corralling oil within fire-proof boom before burning it.

• Rapidly responding to a spill in a remote area that lacks nearby ports, airports and Coast Guard presence. read more

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Shell proposes to move forward in Beaufort Sea

latimes.com

October 6, 2010 |  8:56 pm

With the BP oil well blowout in the Gulf of Mexico successfully contained, Shell Alaska announced that it has filed an application to proceed with exploratory offshore drilling in the Beaufort Sea off Alaska.

The Obama administration suspendedall offshore operations in the remote, fragile Arctic seas this year in the wake of the BP spill, but Shell officials said they have prepared a more robust oil blowout containment plan and are ready to proceed next summer with a single well 17 miles off the North Slope. read more

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Spill panel asks whether Shell Oil’s Arctic response plans are ‘realistic’

The Hill Newspaper By Ben Geman – 10/06/10 02:29 PM ET

The presidential commission probing the BP oil spill is questioning whether Shell Oil’s response plan for a potential spill in Arctic waters off Alaska’s coast is “realistic.”

The finding could provide ammunition to environmental groups that oppose Shell’s plans to conduct exploratory drilling, which the Interior Department has put on hold.

The adequacy of Shell’s contingency plan — called the C-Plan — for the Chukchi Sea surfaced in a staff paper released Wednesday by the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling. read more

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Shell seeks to drill off Alaska

Chron.com

Beaufort Sea plan includes improved oil spill response system

By TOM FOWLER Copyright 2010 Houston Chronicle

Oct. 6, 2010, 10:08PM

Royal Dutch Shell has applied for a permit to drill in the shallow waters of Alaska’s Beaufort Sea next year and unveiled plans for an improved oil spill response system for the Arctic.

The well, in the Sivulliq prospect about 15 miles off Alaska’s North Slope, will be drilled in about 120 feet of water. The Noble Discoverer rig is lined up for the job, but a second rig has been stationed in Dutch Harbor to be on hand to drill a relief well in the event of a blowout or other accident. read more

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Shell scales back drilling for Alaska offshore

REUTERS

Wed Oct 6, 2010 6:28pm EDT

* Shell seeks permit to drill single well in Beaufort Sea

* Not seeking permits to drill in more remote Chukchi Sea

By Yereth Rosen

ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Oct 6 (Reuters) – Royal Dutch Shell (RDSa.L) has scaled back its plans to drill offshore the Alaska coast in 2011 and now plans only a single well for the Beaufort Sea.

Shell, which has spent $3.5 billion in preparation for the drilling, is not seeking federal permits to drill in the more remote Chukchi Sea, where it had originally planned three wells.

Unresolved litigation about the validity of Chukchi Sea leases makes it impractical to plan for drilling next year in that lightly explored region, which lies off northwestern Alaska, said Pete Slaiby, the company’s vice president for Alaska. read more

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U.S. Dept. of Defense Confirms NCIS Espionage Investigation of Shell

Following my email correspondence with a U.S. intelligence source, and clearance obtained by that source from U.S. Dept. of Defense government attorneys, that source was authorized to confirm that an investigation directed at Shell USA was indeed initiated by the US Department of the Navy, Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS).

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Alleged Shell industrial espionage in the USA: HISTORICAL NARRATIVE

The following brief historical account has been assembled from records made available to Federal law enforcement and other agencies over a period of almost 15 years. It catalogs a series of events associated with Shell Oil USA’s (alleged) attempt to gain control of a former employee’s intellectual property. A number of other individuals, including attorneys, also (allegedly) assisted Shell USA in this endeavor.

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Alleged Shell industrial espionage in USA: Oct 2010 email correspondence with Shell

Unclassified US Federal records show those patent applications were classified by US military authorities. Hence the involvement of U.S. investigative authorities when the former Shell USA employee became aware, as a result of a tip-off from a former Shell USA colleague, and later confirmed by Mr. Matt Waldrop, of the law firm Vethan & Waldrop, a contract intellectual property law firm employed by Shell USA, of a Shell USA industrial espionage operation targeting his (classified) intellectual property. Shell USA was supposedly one of Vethan & Waldrop’s major industrial clients and the stated role of that law firm, and Mr. Waldrop, was to advise Shell USA and to assist Shell USA legal counsel in preparing civil litigation against this former employee.

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Alinsky’s Rules for Obama’s Iran Strategy

For instance, the same week that Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg boasted of assurances from Royal Dutch Shell that the company would not invest in Iran, the British press reported that Shell had increased its import of Iranian crude oil and paid $1.5 billion to Tehran. Royal Dutch Shell, it could be argued, essentially just pumped $1.5 billion into the lifeblood of Iran’s coffers, which could be used to finance its nuclear-weapons program and support its terror subsidiaries, Hamas and Hezbollah. Why is the U.S State Department issuing public relations statements for a company that is turning the U.S. sanctions strategy into a theater of the absurd?

October 5, 2010

By Benjamin Weinthal

Berlin — Pres. Barack Obama chose last week to sanction the Swiss-based Naftiran Intertrade (NICO) energy-trading company for violating the recently enhanced U.S Iran Sanctions Act, which bars significant investments in Iran’s energy and gas sectors.

Obama and Secretary of State Clinton are well-versed in Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals, yet they are failing to apply its core ideas to their Iran policy. Alinsky, after all, took to heart Frederick Douglass’s imperative: “Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.” Unfortunately, the U.S. State Department’s meek approach toward sanctions enforcement was on display in the handling of NICO, a subsidiary of Iran’s national oil company, which has no economic presence in the United States. read more

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16 foreign oil companies may have violated Iran sanctions

Date: Wednesday, October 06, 2010
Source: CNSNews.com

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) reported that 16 foreign oil companies, including BP Global, may have violated U.S. sanctions on doing business with Iran. The companies, according to the GAO, sold or are selling gasoline to Iran, which is punishable under U.S. law.

The report, based on a GAO survey of thousands of publicly available energy industry and other publications, found that 16 firms had sold refined petroleum products – things such as gasoline and fuel oil – to Iran from January 2009 to June 2010. read more

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Shell Industrial Espionage

By John Donovan

We are in high level email correspondence with Royal Dutch Shell regarding extraordinary – some might say sensational – information confirmed by the U.S. Dept of Defense. The correspondence has not been productive thus far as Shell officials are playing peek-a-boo and pass the parcel. We intend to publish the information tomorrow unless we receive a request from Shell today providing an indication of when we can expect a substantive response. Shell has no need to play for time. We will delay publication to give Shell further time to investigate provided a clear indication is given of when we can expect a substantive response. By coincidence or otherwise, our website has, for some unknown reason, crashed several times in the last 24 hours. We have had 28 notifications of “technical problems” with our website (hosted on a dedicated server) within the last 15 hours. If we have further problems, or disappear from the Internet altogether, you can draw your own conclusions on what might have happened. In an episode of the intrigue we have come to expect from Shell, it managed to close down royaldutchshellplc.com  once before, fortunately only briefly. That was after Shell’s failed attempt in 2005 to seize the domain name.? read more

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Royal Dutch Shell hires Peter Rees QC as next legal chief

THE LAWYER

Royal Dutch Shell hires Debevoise silk as next legal chief

5 October 2010 | By Luke McLeod-Roberts

Royal Dutch Shell has appointed a new legal director to take over from incumbent Beat Hess, who retires in January 2011.

Peter Rees QC joins from the London office of US firm Debevoise & Plimpton, where he is a partner in the dispute resolution group.

Debevoise European chair of litigation Lord Goldsmith QC said: “Peter leaves the litigation department immeasurably stronger than when he joined. We’ll miss him but we’ll be continuing to build on the work he has so successfully done.”

This comes after The Lawyer reported that managing counsel, exploration and production for Shell UK David Isenegger is leaving the company’s Aberdeen office to become general counsel at Centrica Energy (13 September 2010). read more

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Leave Iran, group tells energy companies

NEW YORK, Oct. 5 (UPI) — Royal Dutch Shell needs to “come clean” on its energy dealings in sanction-strapped Iran, the president of advocacy group United Against Nuclear Iran said.

London’s Guardian newspaper reported last week that Royal Dutch Shell increased the amount of oil it purchased from Iran by 27 percent from May to August compared with the previous three months.

The report added, however, that Shell’s activities in Iran didn’t explicitly violate sanctions imposed by the United States and European Union on Iran’s energy sector.

The U.S. State Department said last week that BP and Shell are no longer selling jet fuel to Iran Air, while Shell, Total, Spanish energy company Repsol and Italy’s Eni all abandoned work in the upstream sector. read more

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UANI Calls for Further Action from European Oil Firms

NEW YORK, Oct 04, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) — United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI) today applauded the European oil firms Total, Statoil, Eni, and Royal Dutch Shell for pledging to comply with U.S. sanctions and end investments in Iran, but called for further action. These companies must end all business dealings in Iran.

It was reported last week by The Guardian that Royal Dutch Shell has continued its trade in crude oil with Iran. UANI calls on Royal Dutch Shell to clarify and make transparent the full extent and nature of its business in Iran.

Responding to the actions of these companies, UANI President, Ambassador Mark D. Wallace said: read more

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Shell Oil spent $4M lobbying in 2Q

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The Associated Press October 4, 2010, 9:08AM ET

WASHINGTON

Shell Oil Co. spent $4 million in the second quarter to lobby the federal government on offshore petroleum drilling and other issues, according to a disclosure report.

That’s up from the $2.57 million the company spent last year and the $2.27 million it spent in the first three months of 2010. Shell also lobbied the federal government on shale gas drilling, regulation of transportation fuels and clean energy legislation, according to the report filed on Oct. 1. read more

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Wiesenthal Center: Boycott Royal Dutch Shell on Iran trade

The Jerusalem Post

By BENJAMIN WEINTHAL
10/03/2010 03:02

Center: “The once proud reputation of Royal Dutch Shell, has been sullied by irresponsible greed.”

BERLIN – The Simon Wiesenthal Center  called last week for a boycott of Royal Dutch Shell gas stations because of the energy company’s increased import of Iranian crude oil.

“We urge the public to avoid Shell gas stations and give their business to companies that honor sanctions. Until Shell publicly announces the cancellation of further crude oil purchases from Iran, all who are concerned for world peace and human rights should leave Shell products on the shelf,” said Dr. Shimon Samuels, head of the Wiesenthal Center’s International Relations section.

The Anglo-Dutch energy company has long been accused of failing to be transparent about its Iran business.

Samuels wrote in a letter to Peter Voser, Shell’s CEO, that “reportedly, in the months immediately following the imposition of sanctions, your company raised purchases by 27 percent, at the same time enjoying an increased discount due to the ‘reputational risk’ for companies trading with Iran.” read more

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Corrib Irish Pipeline Controversy

Shell will cheat the Irish in every way possible and laugh all the way to the bank in the process.”

Comment from a former employee of Shell Oil USA on the Corrib Gas Dispute

I have a fee comments about the Irish pipeline controversy.

I won’t comment at length on the deal an incompetent or corrupt (or both) Irish government cut with Shell, and partners, concerning royalties, taxes, etc., on the Corrib project. All that need be said is that the Irish government has given ‘big oil’ one of the best possible deals in the Greater North Sea/Atlantic geologic province when it comes to oil and gas production royalties and taxes, and their actions are almost entirely to the benefit of ‘big oil’. read more

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Former Shell insider speaks out on Iran

Shell management, like most management in multi-national corporations, is completely amoral and holds no loyalties except to the furtherance of their careers and the amassing of plunder, power and influence. They are predators, pure plane and simple, and always looking for the next target of opportunity. Modern day pirates in suits.

From a former Shell insider

Before I went to work for Shell, many years ago, I spend a year doing earthquake hazards work in Iran for the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI). I worked on the site at Bushier, where Iran’s only ‘commercial’ reactor is located, and I worked in and around the city of Esfahan, where many of Iran’s nuclear research facilities are located. This was in the last days of the Shah’s regime. I headed up the field team that was doing the mapping for a proposed nuclear power plant to be located SW of Esfahan. The nuclear power plant at Bushier was being built by the French and Germans at that time and was supposed to have come on line in 1981. read more

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Europe’s oil firms resist US over Iran

Sat Oct 2, 2010 9:44AM

European oil giants are resisting US pressure to stop buying Iranian crude oil, saying they will leave the country only when their contracts expire.

US Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg said last Thursday that France’s Total, Norway’s Statoil, Italy’s ENI and Royal Dutch Shell would suspend dealings with Iran voluntarily, in support of US-engineered sanctions against Iran over its nuclear work.

All four firms, however, said on Friday they would maintain dealings with Iran.

Moreover, France’s Total announced Friday that it was still purchasing Iranian crude while Royal Dutch Shell noted that it was not illegal to take delivery of Iranian crude under the latest United Nations sanctions, Reuters reported. read more

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Corrib Gas Dispute: Statement by Maura Harrington to An Bord Pleanála hearing

On 12 October 2006 Harrington sustained head and neck injuries while Gardaí cleared demonstrators blocking an access road used by Shell workers. On 9 September 2008 she began a hunger strike in protest at the arrival of the Solitaire, an Allseas pipe-laying ship assisting Royal Dutch Shell's Corrib gas project.

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Pipeline risk overstated – Shell

The Irish Times – Saturday, October 2, 2010

ÁINE RYAN

RISK FROM the proposed Corrib gas pipeline “is no greater than that posed by existing transmission pipelines across Ireland”, according to Shell EP Ireland.

Speaking yesterday in Belmullet, Co Mayo, on the final day of the resumed An Bord Pleanála hearing into the last section of the controversial pipeline, senior counsel Esmonde Keane said Shell’s latest application had “satisfied all relevant criteria” set down by the planning appeals board in its letter of November 2nd, 2009. read more

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Corrib Gas Project: Statement by Eamonn O’Coillea’in to An Bord Pleanála hearing

Email we received from Mr Eamonn O’Coillea’in

It is absolutely unreal. The applicant for this refinery and now the finally untreated raw gas pipeline is all ready 10 years old, so the people of Erris, co Mayo , Ireland do not feel safe with the risks involved in this pipeline being built up our ocean bay and though privately owned lands that the people have strongly objected to for the last 10 years . Please help if you can. Thank you

Comment from Eamonn: Since Irish Minister Ray Burke met with Shell alone, behind closed doors, It makes one wonder about the policy’s  of the present government that gave away our natural resources, when the Irish people should have received their fair share instead of  nothing in these economic times of cut backs to hospitals, education, old peoples pensions, Christmas funds and every thing else that was cut back on…

IN HIS OWN WORDS: Extracts from the Closing Statement presented by Eamonn O’Coillea’in to an Bord Pleanála hearing on 29 September 2010 concerning the Shell Corrib Gas Project in Ireland:

Off the west coast of Ireland there are remarkable amounts of gas and oil, Trillions and trillions worth, how much is really out there? read more

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