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April, 2013:

U.S. Supreme Court Shell Decision Emboldens Corporate Torture

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U.S. Supreme Court Decision in Kiobel v. $hell Emboldens Corporate Torture

By Ben Ikari

In Kiobel et al v. $hell, America has shown that oil is thicker than blood, as was also represented in ’95. This was when former Pres. Bill Clinton chose the so-called diplomatic sanctions, yet buying Niger delta oil misnamed Nigeria’s instead of insisting with economic sanctions and other serious measures that Nigeria/Abacha shouldn’t kill the Ogoni Nine. This decision declares America as a safe-heaven for corporate torturers/criminals who shall take advantage of  weak people and corporately bought over judiciary in their host countries that are mostly developing sovereigns. read more

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Companies Shielded as U.S. Court Cuts Human-Rights Suits

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The U.S. Supreme Court insulated multinational corporations from at least some lawsuits over atrocities abroad, scaling back a favorite legal tool of human rights activists.

The justices threw out a suit accusing two foreign-based units of Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSA) of facilitating torture and execution in Nigeria. The majority said the 1789 Alien Tort Statute generally doesn’t apply to conduct beyond U.S. borders.

In the Shell case, “all the relevant conduct took place outside the United States,” Chief Justice John Roberts wrote for the court. The justices were unanimous on the outcome in the Shell case, while dividing in their reasoning. read more

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Court Limits Alien Tort Law in Shell Oil Case

WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court said Wednesday that a centuries-old statute making international law enforceable in U.S. federal court cannot be applied to actions that take place overseas, blunting a tool human rights groups had used against torturers and other abusers for violations in their home countries.

In an opinion by Chief Justice John Roberts, the court held that the Alien Tort Claims Act, adopted in 1789 shortly after Congress met for the first time, only applies to actions that take place in the U.S. While all justices voted to dismiss the suit against Royal Dutch Shell RDSB.LN -0.95% PLC, Justice Stephen Breyer, joined by three other liberals, disputed the bright line majority conservatives drew. read more

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U.S. high court rules for Royal Dutch Shell in Nigeria rights case

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WASHINGTON | Wed Apr 17, 2013 3:25pm BST

(Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday said federal courts do not have jurisdiction to hear lawsuits against foreign corporations accused of aiding in human rights abuses abroad.

In one of its biggest human rights cases in years, the justices ruled unanimously that a court in New York could not hear claims made by 12 Nigerians who accused Anglo-Dutch oil company Royal Dutch Shell Plc of complicity in a violent crackdown on protesters from 1992 to 1995. read more

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Moving on, Shell signs agreement with Russia to seek oil in Arctic

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Eye on the Arctic: April 16, 2013

Although Royal Dutch Shell has announced a hiatus this summer for exploring the Beaufort Sea and Arctic Ocean off of Alaska, the energy giant isn’t slowing down.  Shell has signed an agreement with Russian energy giant Gazprom, allowing it to explore and develop petroleum prospects in Russia’s Arctic.

“Gazprom and Shell already partner in the Russian shelf development. The new accords enable us to explore the potential of our joint capabilities,” said Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee, said in a press release. read more

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BP a novice at manipulating Wikipedia compared with Shell

Screen Shot 2013-04-16 at 23.58.28In Shell’s case, a vast amount of information, which fully met Wikipedia guidelines, but was deemed damaging to Shell’s reputation, has been either covertly removed, or removed in dubious circumstances by editors hiding their identity behind an alias, as they are allowed to do. Royal Dutch Shell articles on Wikipedia are, in my experience, regularly patrolled and edited by individuals sympathetic to Shell. Most of the articles have been deleted in their entirety.

By John Donovan

According to a recent cnet.com news report, BP’s press office has been accused of a behind the scenes operation allegedly rewriting an estimated 44 percent of the oil giant’s Wikipedia page: BP accused of rewriting environmental record on Wikipedia

Extract

BP is not directly editing its page, but instead has apparently inserted a BP representative into the editing community who provides Wikipedia editors with text.

The text is then copied “as is” onto the page by Wikipedia editors. Readers might assume its unbiased information when its, in fact, vetted by higher-ups at BP before hitting the page. read more

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Shell: Motiva’s Port Arthur Refinery Restart to Take ‘Several Days’

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Published April 16, 2013 by Dow Jones Newswires

Motiva Enterprises LLC’s Port Arthur, Texas, refinery is in the early process of preparing units for restart, following an unexpected loss of power Sunday from its utility provider, said Kimberly Windon of Shell Oil Co., spokeswoman for the joint venture that operates the refinery.

“The refinery is safely progressing through a structured and planned restart sequence that will encompass several days,” Ms. Windon said.

The electrical malfunction resulted in a plant-wide shutdown of Motiva’s 600,000-barrel-a-day refinery and also of Valero Energy Corp.’s (VLO) 310,000-barrel-a-day refinery in the same area. read more

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Shell has spent $4.5 BILLION on Arctic exploration without completing a well

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To Reinvigorate Production, Alaska Grants a Tax Break to Oil Companies

By CLIFFORD KRAUSS: A version of this article appeared in print on April 16, 2013, on page B3 of the New York edition

Hoping to reverse two decades of declining oil production in Alaska, the State Legislature in Juneau has granted oil companies an estimated $750 million in annual tax relief to increase investment in the giant North Slope oil field.

The tax change, approved on Sunday, was a major victory for Exxon Mobil, ConocoPhillips and BP, which had lobbied for years to repeal a tax system put in place by former Gov. Sarah Palin in 2007 that made state oil taxes among the highest in the nation. The companies have long claimed that high operating costs and taxes in Alaska encouraged them to move their investment dollars to other states with lower tax rates, like Texas and North Dakota, where oil and gas exploration and production have been booming in new shale fields. read more

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Consultant Recants in Chevron Pollution Case in Ecuador

 Not Shell, but Chevron using similar legal tactics….

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HOUSTON — An environmental case that has pitted Chevron against Ecuadorean Amazon villagers for two decades has taken another bizarre twist, with an American consulting firm now recanting research favorable to the villagers’ claims of pollution in remote tracts of jungle.

The consulting firm, Stratus Consulting of Boulder, Colo., announced late Thursday that it had originally been misled by Steven R. Donziger, a lead lawyer for the Ecuadorean villagers, and had decided to disavow its contributions to scientific research about whether there was groundwater contamination that sickened the residents in swaths of rain forest. read more

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Irish Police corruption, booze and violence sponsored by Shell?

Screen Shot 2013-04-16 at 00.27.03Members of the Irish police force, perhaps fueled by an alleged flood of free booze funded by Shell, smuggled across the border at Shell’s behest, have been accused of using excessive violence against Corrib gas pipeline protestors.

By John Donovan

Shell has had more than ample time to deny the allegations that it used an agent – OSSL – to distribute alcohol on its behalf to hundreds of Irish police officers. The Garda has been accused of using excessive violence against protestors, perhaps fueled by the free booze sponsored by Shell?

Shell has allegedly spent tens of thousands of euros on the free booze. We have all seen the purported invoice.

Bearing in mind the carefully drafted wording of the Shell Code of Conduct, are Shell lawyers going to try to argue that there was no business transaction between Shell and the Irish police? read more

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Motiva Port Arthur refinery shuts down after power outage

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By Barbara Powell
Bloomberg News

Motiva Enterprises LLC’s Port Arthur, Texas, refinery is completely shut down after losing power yesterday, a person familiar with operations said.

There isn’t a timeline for restarting the plant, said the person, who asked not to be identified because the information isn’t public. The refinery is the largest in the U.S. with a capacity of 600,000 barrels a day.

Gulf Coast: Refineries expanded, but not constructed

Entergy Corp. restored electricity to the three plants in Port Arthur, owned by Motiva, Total Petrochemicals USA Inc. and Valero Energy Corp., which account for 1.08 million barrels a day of refining capacity. read more

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Alleged Shell Irish Bribes Scandal

“…Shell funded alcohol was allegedly distributed to the Police, a gift not conducive to the well-being, safety and demeanor of police officers. The booze was allegedly delivered to senior on duty officers, with delivery being made at Police premises in one instance.”: “Some of the wording on the purported invoice seems strangely reminiscent of the prohibition era in the USA. Somebody trying to conceal the illicit transportation of alcohol.”

EMAIL DATED 15 April 2013 FROM JOHN DONOVAN TO LINDA SZYMANSKI, ROYAL DUTCH SHELL PLC CHIEF ETHICS AND COMPLIANCE OFFICER.

Dear Linda Szymanski

I sent emails to you on 28 March 2013 and 29 March 2013 (also copied to Michiel Brandjes) concerning allegations made by a former Shell supplier OSSL, that Shell E&P Ireland has engaged in widespread corruption of the Irish Police force. According to OSSL and the related purported invoice dated 28 August 2012, Shell funded alcohol was allegedly distributed to the Police, a gift not conducive to the well-being, safety and demeanor of police officers. The booze was allegedly delivered to senior on duty officers, with delivery being made at Police premises in one instance. read more

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Ogoniland: Shell Starting To Pull Out

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12 April 2013

Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria, said, Wednesday [10 April], it had begun the decommissioning of its facilities in Ogoniland, Rivers State, with the commencement of an audit of its assets in the area.

Shell said in a statement the process began with bush clearing in the fourth quarter of last year, following series of engagements and consultations with the communities.

It is not clear why Shell kept quiet about the decommissioning until now, but this will be the first time Shell will be venturing into Ogoniland for any kind of activity in almost 20 years. read more

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Shell demands Nigeria do more to stop rising oil theft

EXTRACTS: Last month Shell said it was forced to close the Nembe Creek oil pipeline, which carries about 150,000 barrels a day, to clear away oil split following a theft. As more oil is pillaged, there is a growing threat of an environmental disaster in Nigeria, Shell said in its annual sustainability report. While Nigeria has historically been a troubled region for Shell, it is the company’s problems exploring off Alaska that have drawn more scrutiny in the past 12 months. Shell remains under investigation by US authorities following a series of mishaps in the Arctic, including the grounding at the start of the year of its Kulluk oil rig. An investigation by the US Coast Guard found that Shell’s other rig in the region had safety problems.

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By 12:05AM BST 12 Apr 2013

As more oil is pillaged, there is a growing threat of an environmental disaster in Nigeria, Shell said in its annual sustainability report.

More than 90pc of the oil spilled last year from its pipelines and other operations in Nigeria was the result of sabotage, the company claimed yesterday.

“We urgently need more assistance from the Nigerian government and its security forces,” said Mutiu Sunmonu, chairman of Shell Nigeria.

Shell is one of a handful of major western oil companies, which include America’s ExxonMobil and Chevron, France’s Total and Italy’s Eni, responsible for pumping about 90pc of the country’s crude. read more

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Nigerian Oil Thefts Prompt Shell to Act

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A version of this article appeared April 12, 2013, on page B1 in the U.S. edition of The Wall Street Journal

By BENOIT FAUCON

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PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria—Jacob Mandi says he failed to find work with Royal Dutch Shell PLC in Nigeria’s oil-rich swamps. So now the 25-year-old ocean diver earns a rich living stealing crude oil from pipelines in an activity the company warned on Thursday is part of a “massive and growing problem of oil theft” in Africa’s top crude-oil producer.

Mr. Mandi, drawing lines on a sandy beach, describes how he dives into the cool waters of the vast Niger Delta to puncture and siphon oil from Shell pipelines deep in its creeks. The bulk of the pilfered sweet crude is loaded onto ships bound for foreign countries, according to Shell, Nigerian oil officials and the thieves themselves. read more

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Shell pushes floating technology as James Price Point alternative

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WHILE Woodside Petroleum chief executive Peter Coleman declined to publicly debate the prospects of the three stated alternatives to a $45 billion Browse LNG development at James Price Point because it is a joint venture decision, Royal Dutch Shell, his biggest shareholder and the biggest indirect shareholder in the Browse project, was not so circumspect.

Shell, which owns 27 per cent of the Browse project and 23 per cent of Woodside, was quick to declare its preference for development of the project’s big offshore gasfields was through a floating LNG project using Shell technology. read more

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Mystery surrounding OSSL alleged Shell Corruption Scandal

By John Donovan

We have received a copy of an email allegedly sent today to Brian Foley, who according to OSSL, has been the senior Shell contracts manager on the Corrib Gas project for the last ten years. The email was also allegedly copied to Royal Dutch Shell Plc CEO Peter Voser and Michael Crothers, the CEO of Shell E&P Ireland.

The email repeats the claim that Shell sent Corrib auditors KPMG to OSSL offices warning “about imprisonment if we disclosed the police alcohol matter.” read more

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Top Canada court will not hear oil sands case

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CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) – Canada’s Supreme Court on Thursday declined to hear an Alberta aboriginal group’s application to block an upcoming regulatory decision for a Royal Dutch Shell oil sands development.

The aboriginal group sought the block because it was not adequately consulted.

The country’s top court did not give reasons for refusing to hear the case, which was also dismissed by the Alberta Court of Appeal in November.

The Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation argued that the regulatory panel weighing Shell’s application for its Jackpine mine expansion in northern Alberta should consider whether the government met its constitutional duty to consult the native group. read more

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Shell, Mitsubishi Will Start Iraq Plant on April 15

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By Khalid Al-Ansary and Nayla Razzouk on April 11, 2013

Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSA) and Mitsubishi Corp. (8058) will start capturing gas from Iraq’s oil fields next week in a $17 billion project known as Basra Gas Co.

“Basra Gas Co. will start operations officially on April 15,” said Ali Hussain Khudayir, director general of South Gas Co., which represents the Iraqi government’s controlling stake in the Basra Gas Co. venture.

The plant will produce 400 million cubic feet (11 million cubic meters) a day from next week, climbing to 2 billion cubic feet a day by 2017, Khudayir said on March 27. The facility will capture so-called associated gas from the Zubair, Majnoon and West Qurna-1 oil fields in southern Iraq. read more

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Shell returns to polluted Nigeria oil region

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LAGOS — Shell on Thursday said it had launched a review of its oil and gas assets in Nigeria’s massively polluted Ogoniland region, resuming work in the area two decades after unrest forced the company to pull out.

The Anglo-Dutch oil major said the move was not part of an attempt to restart oil production in Ogoniland, describing it instead as a bid to comply with a 2011 UN report that called for one of the world’s biggest ever environmental clean-ups.

“The intention is to determine the state of our facilities since we suspended operations in the area in 1993, and determine how best to decommission them,” the head of Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria (SPDC), Mutiu Sunmonu, said in a statement. read more

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Shell Warns of Environmental Cost of Oil Theft in Niger Delta

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Published April 11, 2013 by Dow Jones Newswires

Rising incidences of oil theft in Nigeria’s oil producing Niger Delta come at a significant environmental cost, Royal Dutch Shell PLC (RDSB) said Thursday.

In its sustainability report, the Anglo-Dutch oil major said its Nigerian unit, Shell Petroleum Development Company, or SPDC, experienced 137 spills as a result of sabotage and theft last year, with the volume of oil lost amounting to 3.3 thousand tons.

“This was an increase in both volume and numbers from 2011, as the scale of oil theft in Nigeria reached unprecedented levels,” it said in the report. read more

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Shell Says Energy Efficiency in Oil, Gas Production a Challenge

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By Sarah Kent: Published April 11, 2013 by Dow Jones Newswires

Royal Dutch Shell PLC (RDSB) said Thursday that maintaining energy efficiency in its oil and gas production will prove a challenge in coming years.

“We expect that maintaining the energy efficiency levels of recent years will be more difficult in the future as existing fields age and production comes from more energy-intensive sources,” Shell said in its 2012 sustainability report.

The Anglo-Dutch oil major said its energy efficiency record for oil and gas production, excluding oil sands and gas to liquids, worsened last year compared to the year before. read more

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Gazprom and Shell Agree Partnership in Arctic

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Published April 09, 2013 by Dow Jones Newswires

Russia’s natural gas monopoly OAO Gazprom (GAZP.RS) and the Netherlands’ Royal Dutch Shell PLC (RDSB.LN) have agreed to jointly explore and produce offshore hydrocarbon resources in the Russian Arctic, Gazprom said in a statement released late Monday.

The agreements cover the exploration and development of hydrocarbons in the Arctic shelf and confirm the companies’ partnership for the exploration and production of shale oil in the Khanty-Mansiysk region of Western Siberia. read more

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Has Shell also shelved its Alaskan Drilling plans for 2014?

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RE: ConocoPhillips delays 2014 Arctic marine drilling
 
The rules for working in Alaska require two rigs in the area for drilling to take place, so that in the event of an emergency and the loss of one rig, another rig is available to drill a relief well.
 
Shell met this requirement by having the Kulluk and Discoverer in Alaska.
 
ConocoPhillips’ announcement that they will not be in the Arctic in 2014 throws up a few issues.
 
Shell cannot now plan to drill with a single vessel in Alaska in 2014, and would require a two vessel programme as in 2012.
 
(1)    Does the announcement by ConocoPhillips mean that ConocoPhillips have been told that there will not be a second rig in the area? (ie has Shell also shelved its plans for 2014?)
 
(2)    Would Shell dare to return with the same two vessels? Are Shell planning to build new vessel(s) – perhaps for use in 2015 or 2016? read more

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Russia and the Netherlands cement special relationship with Shell drilling deal

City Diary: Russia and the Netherlands cement special relationship with Shell drilling deal

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By , City Diary Editor 8:30AM BST 10 Apr 2013

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Good to see Vladimir Putin looking for leadership guidance on his trade tour of the Netherlands.

Not from Shell chairman Jorma Ollila – although the pair’s date to sign off the Arctic drilling agreement between Shell and Russia’s state-owned Gazprom Neft was the focus of the Russian president’s Dutch detour.

Instead, Putin made a beeline for the Hermitage museum in Amsterdam, where he soaked up the opening of an exhibition on his political predecessor, Peter the Great. Peter de Grote, as he is in known in the Low Countries, used the Netherlands as the template for his mission to modernise 17th century Russia. read more

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ConocoPhillips delays 2014 Arctic marine drilling

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — ConocoPhillips Alaska announced Wednesday it will not drill in Arctic waters off Alaska’s northwest shore in 2014.

Environmental groups hailed the decision and said the experience of Royal Dutch Shell PLC in 2012 demonstrated that oil companies are not prepared to drill in the fragile Arctic environment.

ConocoPhillips said uncertainties of evolving federal regulatory requirements are the reason for backing off.

“While we are confident in our own expertise and ability to safely conduct offshore Arctic operations, we believe that more time is needed to ensure that all regulatory stakeholders are aligned,” said ConocoPhillips Alaska President Trond-Erik Johansen in the prepared statement. read more

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Shell Pension Fund – Should You Consider Your Transfer Options?

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Hi John,

This short video may be of interest, specifically to Shell Employees.

http://www.aesadviser.com/services/qrops/

I have personally spoken with guys who have already started to take their Shell pension, and they have been most dismayed to learn about what they could have had, in the way of a cash equivalent transfer (into their own retirement trust) and the massive improvement that such a move heralds in relation to passing their fund to their wife and kids, in addition to the possibility for higher growth between now and retirement and higher levels of income at retirement, than if they were to stay in the Shell scheme. read more

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Peter Voser, Petroleum Executive Screw-up of the Year Award

By John Donovan

Peter R. Voser, the man ultimately responsible for Shell’s screw-up in the Arctic – a farce befitting a low budget Monty Python production, the man on whose watch Shell’s market capitalization has sunk below Chevron, making Shell the third largest of the Western oil majors, not number 2, and also the man responsible for robbing UK Shell shareholders of a UK forum for this years AGM, has been named Petroleum Executive of the Year 2013 Under the circumstances – his transformation of Royal Dutch Shell into a humiliated third rate oil company – the credibility of this annual award has been severely dented. read more

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Selection of links to Shell related articles 9 April 2013

Selection of links to Shell related articles kindly supplied by a regular contributor

$11.5B Bonga Oil Spill Fine Spurs Reps Effort To Save Shell: Leadership Newspapers-He therefore asked the House to direct Shell Oil Company and her Joint Venture Partners to take their full social responsibilities for the Bonga …

Shell offers its minority stake in Czech refinery to government: Report: Economic Times-PRAGUE: Royal Dutch/Shell has offered to sell its minority stake in oil refiner Ceska Rafinerska to the Czech government, a news website …

Protestors end Shell public meeting in Dunedin: NZResources.com (subscription)-The hopes of a new economic dawn for Dunedin took a step backwards this week thanks to the success of anti-oil protestors in halting a meeting called by Shell … read more

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Shell, BASF Agree to Settle Brazil Contamination Case for $187 Million -Court

The Brazilian units of Royal Dutch Shell PLC and Germany’s BASF agreed to pay 370.8 million Brazilian reais ($187 million) to settle a lawsuit over suspected contamination at a now-shuttered pesticide plant, Brazil’s Supreme Labor Court said Monday.

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By Jeff Fick: Dow Jones Newswires: Published April 08, 2013

The Brazilian units of Royal Dutch Shell PLC (RDSB.LN) and Germany’s BASF (BASFR) agreed to pay 370.8 million Brazilian reais ($187 million) to settle a lawsuit over suspected contamination at a now-shuttered pesticide plant, Brazil’s Supreme Labor Court said Monday.

The completed settlement brings to a close a court dispute first initiated in 2007, when workers at the plant filed a court case after the discovery of low concentrations of a pesticide chemical in ground water and soil around the site of the Paulinia facility in the 1990s. Shell and BASF had previously said they had accepted a settlement proposed by the court as part of conciliation hearings. read more

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Gazprom, Shell to develop Arctic oil fields

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The Associated Press: 8 April 2013

MOSCOW — Energy giants Gazprom and Royal Dutch Shell PLC have agreed to jointly develop offshore Arctic oil fields, Russian media reported Monday.

The companies will develop the Severo-Vrangelevsky field in the Chukchi Sea and the Severo-Zapadny field in the Pechora Sea. Russian Energy Minister Sergei Donskoy was quoted by national media as saying Monday that Shell is likely to have a 33.3 percent stake in the fields.

Russia is trying to assert jurisdiction over parts of the Arctic, which is believed to hold up to a quarter of the Earth’s undiscovered oil and gas. By speeding up the Arctic oil project, the Kremlin is strengthening its bid. read more

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ROYAL DUTCH SHELL SCREW UP IN THE ARCTIC

Screen Shot 2013-04-07 at 10.34.44In case you are not aware, ***I have already supplied Shell insider information and leaked documents to the Department of the Interior. A senior person requested our help on behalf of the DoI, which we were happy to give. We will of course be pleased to assist in any further requests made of us.

EMAIL FROM JOHN DONOVAN TO U.S. INTERIOR SECRETARY KEN SALAZAR: SENT 7 APRIL 2013

Secretary Salazar
Department of the Interior
1849 C street, N.W.
Washington DC 20240

Dear Mr. Salazar

ROYAL DUTCH SHELL SCREW UP IN THE ARCTIC

I am contacting you in your capacity as the Secretary of the Interior.

With my father, who will be 96 this month, I operate an independent, entirely non-commercial website – *royaldutchshellplc.com – that monitors the activities of Royal Dutch Shell.

We regularly publish Shell internal information supplied by a network of insiders who have provided information in relation to what you have aptly described as a “screw-up” by Shell in its Arctic drilling campaign.
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One-on-one with Shell Oil president Marvin Odum

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The U.S. will always need our oil.

James Cowan

Marvin Odum’s job titles could fill several business cards. He is president of Shell Oil Co. in the United States, and sits on the executive committee of Royal Dutch Shell, its parent company. But for Canadians, his most important role is serving as the executive director of Shell Upstream Americas, where he supervises exploration and production across the Western Hemisphere. Falling within his portfolio are the company’s Canadian operations, including the Athabasca oilsands project and its growing interests in liquefied natural gas (LNG), including a proposed export terminal in Kitimat, B.C., with a rumoured price tag of more than $12 billion. The company is also at the forefront of efforts to change the oilsands’ poor environmental image, investing in the $1.35-billion Quest project, which captures carbon emissions from oilsands operations and buries them beneath the surface. While seen as a pilot project for the industry, it also took millions in provincial and federal government support to launch. In an interview with Canadian Business deputy editor James Cowan, Odum spoke about whether the Keystone XL pipeline will ever receive U.S. approval, why cap-and-trade is good for industry, and what it will take for Canada to become a world leader in LNG. read more

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Salazar: Shell’s troubles should inform others with Arctic plans

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By Jennifer A. Dlouhy, Washington Bureau Published 7:29 pm, Friday, April 5, 2013

Lessons learned from Shell’s problem-plagued 2012 Arctic drilling operations will apply not just to that company’s future work in the Chukchi and Beaufort seas, but to Houston-based ConocoPhillips and other firms with leases in those waters, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar says.

That could include ensuring that the firms have access to specialized oil spill containment equipment or do a better job broadly assessing and managing risks in the remote region north of Alaska. A high-level Interior Department probe of Shell’s program last month concluded the company did not sufficiently oversee and manage an array of contractors and seemed to focus on complying with regulations rather than holistically managing risks. read more

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Salazar Looks Back on a ‘Joyful Run’ as Interior Secretary

Screen Shot 2013-04-06 at 17.27.43Mr. Salazar also escaped without serious harm from a second serious miscalculation — allowing the Shell Oil Company to begin exploring for oil and gas off the North Slope of Alaska before it had the equipment, personnel or management skill to handle the challenges of working in the Arctic environment. Though Shell had repeated accidents and delays, no one was injured and no oil spilled, in part because the regulators at the Interior Department blocked them from drilling into oil-bearing zones. “We told Shell that we were proceeding with the utmost caution and would be watching them every step of the way,” Mr. Salazar said in a farewell interview in his expansive corner office. “The 2012 season was one in which much was learned but where we also stuck to the bright line of their meeting the requirements of their permits.” Shell has announced it will not be returning to the Arctic in 2013 while it repairs its drill rigs and beefs up its safety systems. The Interior Department has said the oil company will not be granted permits to resume operations in Alaska until it proves it has adequate oversight and equipment in place.

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By Published: April 5, 2013

WASHINGTON — Ken Salazar, a man of unnaturally sunny disposition in an often gloomy town, may be the happiest person in the Obama administration these days. He is going home to Colorado next week, provided his successor as interior secretary is confirmed as expected.

“I’ve had a glorious and joyful run,” he reflected on Thursday about his four years at the top of the Department of the Interior and, before that, his four years in the Senate. “Coming to work, I’ve just been living the dream every day.” read more

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Selection of links to Shell related articles 6 April 2013

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Third major oil spill in a week: Shell pipeline breaks in Texas: RT-Thousands of gallons of oil have spilled from a pipeline in Texas, the third accident of its kind in only a week. Shell Pipeline, a unit of Royal …

Finding California Oil Pipelines Near Your Home Not So Easy: KCET (blog)-by Chris Clarke-As word comes in of the third oil pipeline break this week, this one from a Shell Oil pipeline in Texas, Californians may be wondering whether …

China’s ambitious quest for shale gas: BBC News-“We’ve heard the rumour that there’s oil underground,” said one woman. … Royal Dutch Shell, in partnership with a state-owned oil company, … read more

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Shell corruption scheme operated in Ireland on an industrial scale?

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“OSSL management seems to be so disgusted by Shell management that they appear set on a self-destruct mission. The two main possibilities appear to be that they are either responsible for manufacturing forged documents as part of an attempt to put pressure on Shell, or have been drawn by Shell into a corruption conspiracy/scheme operated in Ireland on an industrial scale.”

JOHN DONOVAN EMAIL TO PRIVATE SECRETARY OF IRISH JUSTICE MINISTER, MR ALAN SHATTER

From: John Donovan <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Alleged Corruption of Irish Police Force
Date: 6 April 2013 16:38:12 GMT+01:00
To: INFO <[email protected]>

Dear Mr Brennan

I do apologise for sending this further email but OSSL contacted me again this morning. As a result I have supplied three additional items of purported evidence that I have not seen before, that should be brought to the attention of Mr. Alan Shatter, the Minister for Justice and Equality. read more

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Shell sale fuels jobs fears – 600 jobs on the line

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UP to 600 local jobs are on the line after Shell announced it is selling the Geelong refinery it opened in 1954.

Shell’s Geelong workers and senior management were told the news yesterday morning, just moments before a public announcement that the company was putting the refinery up for sale.

While workers were told not to talk to the media, union boss Ben Davis said the 450 Shell employees and 150 plus contractors were sickened by the announcement.

Shell has given itself 12 months to find a buyer for the Geelong refinery or face possible conversion to a fuel terminal with a greatly reduced workforce. read more

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Shell set for tie-up with Gazprom unit

FINANCIAL TIMES

The prospect of accessing Russia’s Arctic oil could offer some consolation to Shell, which has suffered big setbacks in its efforts to drill in the Arctic waters off the north coast of Alaska. Gazprom Neft, which is the oil arm of the state energy champion, and Shell declined to comment. FULL ARTICLE
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Selection of links to Shell related articles 5 April 2013

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Shell’s US chief makes case for oil exports: The Hill (blog)-Marvin Odum, Royal Dutch Shell’s top U.S. official, said Friday that the structure of global refining markets is a reason the country should export …

Gazprom Neft to Bring Shell Into Shale Oil, Offshore Projects: Bloomberg-OAO Gazprom Neft, the oil arm of Russia’s natural gas exporter, plans to expand its partnership with Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSA) to develop …

The Secret of the Seven Sisters: Aljazeera.com-Oil wells, transport, refining and distribution of oil – everything is controlled … Exxon, Shell, BP, Mobil, Texaco, Gulf and Chevron – the biggest oil … read more

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Alleged Shell Irish Police Corruption Saga Rumbles On

Screen Shot 2013-04-05 at 16.03.20“This Shell corruption scandal targeting government employees, involved sex, drugs and alcohol. So if the corruption alleged to have taken place in Ireland did occur and only involved alcohol, relevant Garda officers might feel rather short-changed in the light of the information I have now supplied.” 

EMAIL FROM JOHN DONOVAN TO THE IRISH MINISTER Of JUSTICE: SENT 5 APRIL 2013

From: John Donovan <[email protected]>
Subject: Alleged Corruption of Irish Police Force
Date: 5 April 2013 15:57:58 GMT+01:00
To: INFO <[email protected]>

Dear Mr Brennan

Thank you for the acknowledgement you have provided on behalf of the Irish Minister for Justice & Equality.

Can you kindly pass on this further information to Mr. Shatter.

I had not until recently given it serious consideration that Shell E&P Ireland could really have corrupted hundreds of Garda officers, as has been alleged. read more

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Ban pesticides linked to bee deaths, say MPs

Screen Shot 2013-04-05 at 14.52.49This BBC article relates to our recent posting “We wondered who was killing off all the bees: Shell?” The issue in contention is whether neonicotinoids, first developed by Shell Oil in the 1980s to replace the highly toxic organophosphorus insecticides, are in fact lethal to honeybees and songbirds.

Screen Shot 2013-04-05 at 14.48.43By Matt McGrath Environment correspondent, BBC News: 5 April 2013

The UK government should suspend the use of a number of pesticides linked to the deaths of bees, a committee of MPs has said.

Members of the Commons Environmental Audit Committee are calling for a moratorium on the use of sprays containing neonicotinoids.

Britain has refused to back an EU ban on these chemicals saying their impact on bees is unclear.

But MPs say this is an “extraordinarily complacent” approach.

Wild species such as honey bees are said by researchers to be responsible for pollinating around one-third of the world’s crop production. read more

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Hired guns protect Shell’s $9bn gas business

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(Lloyd’s List is one of the world’s oldest continuously running journals, having provided weekly shipping news in London as early as 1734.)

Energy shipping firm deploys armed guards despite LNG carriers’ smaller risk of piracy

Hal Brown – Friday 5 April 2013

PIRATES are very much a concern for Shell’s gas shipping operation, even though liquefied natural gas carriers are no easy target for attackers.

As Shell’s LNG vessel Mekaines loaded cargo last month in Ras Laffan , Qatar, it had already made preparations to pick up a team of armed guards.

The four guards, all ex-Royal Marines, joined the ship at Muscat in the Gulf of Oman, before the vessel sailed into the Arabian Sea, bound for the Isle of Grain in the UK. read more

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Firms pocket millions for Shell work

FROM OUR SHELL NEWS ARCHIVE

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Firms pocket millions for Shell work: “Oil company Shell pays record-breaking amount for audit work during one of the most controversial periods in its history.”: “KPMG and PwC pocketed $70m (£37m) for their work with Shell during its troubled last 12 months, according to the oil company’s latest filing with the SEC.”: “During the last year Shell suffered its oil reserves scandals, overstating the number of barrels of oil it held in reserves by billions…”

Kevin Reed, 04 April 2005

Oil company Shell pays record-breaking amount for audit work during one of the most controversial periods in its history.

KPMG and PwC pocketed $70m (£37m) for their work with Shell during its troubled last 12 months, according to the oil company’s latest filing with the SEC.

The basic audit fee of £22m, awarded by Shell, is one of the biggest ever paid out by a British company, up from £17m in 2003.

The two auditors – Netherlands-based branch of KMPG and PwC in the UK – received millions of pounds for other tasks, such as diligence assistance and ‘special investigations’. read more

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Shell to sign Russian Arctic deal with Gazprom Neft, Kremlin reveals

Royal Dutch Shell is poised for a fresh attempt at Arctic oil exploration through a deal with Russia’s Gazprom Neft, the Kremlin revealed on Thursday night.

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 Emily Gosden By 7:54PM BST 04 Apr 2013

The companies are preparing to sign an agreement that will cover joint offshore drilling in the Russian Arctic as well as shale oil projects onshore in Western Siberia, it said.

The agreement will be announced next week when Russian President Vladimir Putin visits the Netherlands, where the Anglo-Dutch company is headquartered.

Gazprom Neft is the majority-owned, oil-focused arm of gas giant Gazprom, which is in turn majority-owned by the Russian state.

The deal comes just weeks after Shell was forced to delay its high-profile exploration campaign in the Alaskan Arctic for another year after a series of setbacks blighted its campaign in 2012. read more

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Shell pipeline spills oil into Houston area bayou

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April 4, 2013, 3:29 p.m. EDT

By Ben Lefebvre

An estimated 50 barrels of oil spilled from a pipeline operated by a subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell PLC (RSDA.LN, RDSA) into a waterway outside Houston, according to the U.S. Coast Guard.

Shell clean-up crews were working to clear the crude out of Vince Bayou, a waterway that connects to the Houston Ship Channel, which leads into the Gulf of Mexico, said Coast Guard Petty Officer Steven Lehman. The spill was contained but the total amount of oil was still being verified, Officer Lehman said. read more

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Gazprom Neft, Shell to team up on shale oil, Arctic

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By Alexei Anishchuk

MOSCOW, April 4 | Thu Apr 4, 2013 11:16am EDT

(Reuters) – Gazprom Neft and Royal Dutch Shell will agree to drill for shale oil in Western Siberia and explore Russia’s Arctic shelf when President Vladimir Putin visits the Netherlands next week, the Kremlin said.

The deals underscore the Kremlin’s drive to open up access to Russia’s trove of hard-to-recover energy reserves to international energy firms with the expertise needed to secure its position as a leading global oil and gas producer. read more

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No chance for Shell refinery sale: analyst

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Screen Shot 2013-04-04 at 17.10.19ABOUT 450 fearful Shell refinery workers in Geelong face a long wait for a lifeline that analysts and unions doubt will ever come.

The petroleum giant has announced plans to sell its last remaining Australian refinery, but if it can’t find a buyer by the end of 2014 to keep it open, it may convert the site to a fuel import terminal.

If that happens, the Australian Workers Union (AWU) says hundreds of jobs will go, with only 50 to 100 workers needed to staff a terminal.

Financial data firm Morningstar’s head of equities, Peter Warnes, says Shell will struggle to sell the 60-year-old refinery.

“Shell have got no chance of finding a buyer,” Mr Warnes told AAP. read more

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Gazprom Neft to Bring Shell Into Shale Oil, Offshore Projects

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By Olga Tanas & Stephen Bierman – Apr 4, 2013 4:00 PM GMT+0100

OAO Gazprom Neft, the oil arm of Russia’s natural gas exporter, plans to expand its partnership with Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSA) to develop shale oil in Siberia and Arctic offshore blocks, according to a Kremlin official.

Gazprom Neft and Shell will sign agreements next week during President Vladimir Putin’s visit to the Netherlands, the Kremlin official said, asking not to be identified because talks are continuing. OAO Gazprom, the world’s biggest natural gas producer, will also sign an accord with Nederlandse Gasunie NV, the official said without elaborating. read more

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Selection of links to Shell related articles 4 April 2013

Selection of links to Shell related articles kindly supplied by a regular contributor

Ogoni: US Supreme Court To Deliberate Kiobel case: UNPO-… and social injustice surrounding oil exploration by Royal Dutch Shell and … charged with specious crimes, tortured and summarily hanged.

Antitrust and competition–the EU weekly briefing, vol. 1, issue 21: Lexology (registration) … in Hamburg/Harburg owned by Shell Deutschland Oil GmbH (M.6360). … The OFT has confirmed that in February 2013 it opened a criminal …

Toughened oversight raises antitrust hazards of oil industry …:Oil & Gas Journal-Apr 1, 2013: Virtually all oil and gas companies—from the smallest independent producers to … on identifying civil or criminal violations in the oil and gasoline markets and …. Dagher, the US Supreme Court held that the Texaco-Shell joint … read more

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