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August, 2013:

Report on Kulluk grounding won’t be public until 2014

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By Tim Bradner, Alaska Journal of Commerce:

Published: 2013.08.15 10:55 AM

The U.S. Coast Guard’s marine casualty investigation into the grounding of Shells’ drillship Kulluk in late 2012 will be concluded Aug. 19 but will not likely be made public until after the first of the year, a Coast Guard spokesman in Alaska said Aug. 14.

Coast Guard spokesperson Kip Wadlow said the investigating officer, Cmdr. Joshua McTaggert, will to deliver his report on the accident to the Coast Guard’s Alaska Commander Rear Adm. Thomas Ostebo on Aug, 19. read more

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EPA Exemption for Shell Survives Federal Suit

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By TIM HULL OF COURTHOUSE NEWS SERVICE 15 August 2013

(CN) – A Shell drilling ship need not face federal air quality standards while it explores the Beaufort Sea off Alaska’s North Slope, the 9th Circuit ruled Thursday.

A host of environmental groups, including the Center for Biological Diversity and the Natural Resources Defense Council, had challenged a permit that the Environmental Protection Agency reasonably granted Shell Offshore in 2011, allowing the Kulluk ship to “construct, operate, and conduct ‘pollutant emitting activities'” in the Beaufort Sea. read more

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OSSL SHELL GARDA CORRUPTION SCANDAL

Screen Shot 2013-05-13 at 17.33.04What started out on a small scale as festive gifts, in later years expanded into an industrial scale operation, rewarding hundreds of Garda officers for their diligent support for Shell, steamrollering all opposition.

EMAIL SENT ON 15 AUGUST 2013 FROM OSSL TO SHELL LEGAL BOSS, PETER REES QC

Dear Mr Peter Rees

I have read your impressive article about Royal Dutch Shell and the Rule of Law.

Do you really mean what you say about fighting corrupt practices and your insistence on honesty, integrity and respect for people by everyone at Shell?

I am sure you have heard of OSSL and our allegations.

Shell says there is no evidence to support them.

This is because Shell EP Ireland ensured that the audit trail evidence was all destroyed. We had to hand over all receipts.

What started out on a small scale as festive gifts, in later years expanded into an industrial scale operation, rewarding hundreds of Garda officers for their diligent support for Shell, steamrollering all opposition. read more

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Did Shell deliver over €35K worth of booze to Mayo Gardai?

Screen Shot 2013-08-15 at 16.31.52Gardai have failed to confirm or deny the veracity of the claims. “We could not have tried harder to get the Gardai to deny this. If someone said stuff about me, that a story saying I had 35,000 worth of booze delivered to me was going into the Observer and it was a lie, I’d be hopping mad. I’d be out there saying ‘NO!’ It was similar with Shell. “Our job in journalism is to follow nasty smells and this smell hasn’t been cleared up yet!”

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A contractor working for Shell has alleged that thousands of euros worth of alcohol was delivered to a Mayo Garda Station courtesy of the Gas group

Raf Diallo

14:30 Thursday 15 August 2013

On Sunday a Shell contractor who had worked in Ballynaboy, Co Mayo, alleged that over €35,000 worth of alcohol from a Northern Irish dispensary was delivered to a Mayo Garda station and unloaded from a truck by a senior Garda courtesy of the company.

This morning on Breakfast, Chris Donoghue spoke to journalist Ed Vulliamy who broke the story for The Observer in the UK.

Vulliamey admits that the allegation could be completely untrue but he told Chris that Gardai have failed to confirm or deny the veracity of the claims.  read more

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Workers Evacuated Following Blowout on Rig

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by  Karen Boman: July 23, 2013

Forty-seven workers were evacuated from the jackup Hercules 265 (250’ MC) offshore Grand Isle, Louisiana following a blowout Tuesday, according to media reports.

Efforts to regain control of the A-3 natural gas well at South Timbalier Block 220 that experienced a blowout are underway, rig owner Hercules Offshore said in a press release Tuesday. The company also has notified all necessary governmental authorities of the incident.

The U.S. Coast Guard evacuated workers on two lifeboats from the platform, according to New Orleans TV station website WDSU.com. None of the workers sustained any injuries, a Coast Guard spokesperson confirmed to Rigzone. The workers are being transported to a secure location, Hercules said in a statement. A Coast Guard cutter and two aircraft are headed out to the platform to conduct an overflight assessment, WDSU reported. read more

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Royal Dutch Shell and the Rule of Law

Screen Shot 2013-08-14 at 19.29.19Shell was one of the first companies to introduce business principles in 1976 and if you work for Shell it is an absolute requirement that you comply with our Code of Conduct no matter whether the local law would permit, or even encourage, operating to lower standards. The Code of Conduct covers all aspects of our operations from health, safety, security, environment and human rights to fighting corrupt practices, complying with international sanctions and antitrust laws and data privacy requirements. But its basis can be summarized in the three universal values which underpin it and which everyone in Shell is expected to live by – honesty, integrity and respect for people.

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By Peter Rees

Peter J. Rees QC is the Legal Director, and a member of the Executive Committee, of Royal Dutch Shell plc.

What do you understand the Rule of Law to mean?

As a lawyer I would expect it to mean exactly what it says. Namely, that the law should be what rules. It should rule over political interest, personal interest and financial interest. If the rule of law is alive and well it should be law, and nothing else, that defines the rights and obligations are of those that are subject to it. read more

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OSSL EMAIL SENT TO SHELL CEO TODAY RE GARDA BOOZE SCANDAL

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EMAIL SENT TODAY BY DESMOND KANE OF OSSL TO MICHAEL CROTHERS, CEO, SHELL EP IRELAND

From: THE OSSL COMPANY <[email protected]>
Date: 14 August 2013 17:30:32 BST
To: Michael Crothers <[email protected]>, Michiel Brandjes <[email protected]>, Peter Voser <[email protected]>
Subject: Code of conduct Shells actions on Corrib

Dear Mr Crothers ,

A comment your spokesperson made yesterday, has been brought to our attention regarding Shells code of conduct .

May we politely request an answer to this question …  Senior Shell Corrib management person read more

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Shell welcomes inquiry into claims of alcohol delivery to garda

Mr Kane said Shell E&P’s practice was to read and then destroy the receipts. The company was now demanding proof of something it had destroyed itself, he said…

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Corrib developer satisfied “no evidence has been found” over alleged gift to Garda

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Shell E&P Ireland says it welcomes the Garda Síochána’s examination of a contractor’s allegations that large quantities of alcohol were delivered on its behalf to Belmullet Garda station in 2007.

The lead Corrib gas project developer was responding to yesterdays Irish Times report that the Garda appointed a senior officer over a month ago to examine the claims made by contractor OSSL.

OSSL, managed by Desmond Kane of Glasgow and Neil Rooney of Belfast, provided services to the Corrib gas project from 2002 until 2010. read more

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Garda Superintendent Thomas Murphy: A clean pair of hands?

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By John Donovan

The claimed latest development announced today about the Corrib Gas Project Corruption Scandal is that a Superintendent Thomas Murphy has been appointed to investigate. We reported on this development nearly a month ago and published an email he sent to OSSL on 9 July.

Supt Murphy presented himself “as an independent person to the ongoing issues in Co Mayo” with clean hands.

I can only guess that he did not receive a share of the free booze received from Shell by hundreds of his fellow County Mayo Garda police officers. read more

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Bribery allegations hit Statoil Ireland development project

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Statoil’s scandal-dogged Corrib project in Ireland is already considerably delayed and three times more expensive than planned. Operator Shell is now accused of amongst other things bribing Irish police with large amounts of alcohol.

By Erlend Skarsaune: 13 August 2013

The Corrib field off the northwest coast of Ireland should have delivered gas ten years ago. But strong opposition from locals has meant that the field is still not producing, and made it NOK 17 billion (almost EUR 2.18 billion) more expensive than planned. The Corrib field’s overrun is 283 per cent when compared with its original budget, probably Statoil’s largest ever.

Shell is the operator, but residents believe the project also definitely falls under Statoil’s responsibility, what with its 36.5 per cent share. Local protesters are of the opinion that police have sided with the oil companies. Farmer Willie Corduff thinks injustices the Corrib project has caused the local community will never be healed. read more

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Gardaí deny booze bribes

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Superintendent appointed to examine allegations

Áine Ryan

A SENIOR garda is examining serious allegations about Belmullet gardaí accepting boxes of booze from Shell before Christmas 2007, The Mayo News can exclusively reveal. The Garda Press Office confirmed last night that ‘a garda superintendent had been appointed to examine the matter’. It declined to confirm the identity of the garda, but The Mayo News understands it is Swinford Supt Thomas Murphy and that he was appointed a month ago, despite earlier protestations from An Garda Síochána that the matter had been investigated and there was nothing to report. read more

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Corrib ‘booze for garda’ claims: TD calls for statements by ministers and outside inquiry

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13 August 2013

Screen Shot 2013-08-13 at 17.06.54ALLEGATIONS of drink being delivered to gardaí on behalf of the Shell multinational for policing its controversial Corrib gas project at Rossport in County Mayo require statements by the Ministers for Justice and Natural Resources as well as “an independent probe to vindicate the reputations of everyone involved in granting Shell its licences from start to finish”, Sinn Féin TD Pádraig Mac Lochlainn has said.

The Sinn Féin TD said the delivery of what has been described in the media as ‘corporate sweeteners’ on behalf of Shell to gardaí policing protests against Shell’s operations – including a delivery of €35,000 of alcohol to Belmullet Garda Station in 2007 – raises serious questions about possible bribery to influence policy or practice by Shell or its agents. read more

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Gardai deny gas firm gave them alcohol worth €35k

GARDAI have rejected claims that officers policing the Corrib Gas protests were given alcohol worth €35,000 by the company building the pipeline.

An oil services company has claimed it delivered the alcohol in an unmarked van to Belmullet garda station in Mayo at Christmas 2007 following instructions by Shell E&P Ltd.

And OSSL, based in Bangor Erris, also claims it was charged with providing “accommodation services” to local residents, including home improvements, tennis courts, donating kitchen appliances and paying school fees.

The company, which worked with Shell since 2002, had its contract terminated in 2010, and claims it is owed money by Shell E&P Ltd. read more

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Garda examining claims alcohol was delivered to Mayo station

ARTICLES BY LORNA SIGGINS ABOUT THE SHELL GARDA SCANDAL PUBLISHED TODAY AUG 13, BY THE IRISH TIMES

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Garda examining claims alcohol was delivered to Mayo station

Senior officer’s examination underway for over a month

Tue, Aug 13, 2013

An Garda Síochána has appointed a senior officer to examine claims a company contracted to Shell E&P Ireland delivered large quantities of alcohol to Belmullet Garda station in Mayo. The Garda Press Office confirmed to The Irish Times last night that “a superintendent has been appointed to examine the matter”.

It is understood Supt Thomas Murphy of Swinford Garda station has been instructed to contact the contractor, OSSL, in relation to a number of allegations against the force. read more

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Shell welcomes Garda examination of alcohol claims

By: Lorna Siggins – Irish Times

Report claimed drink worth €35,000 was delievered to gardai on Shell’s behalf

Shell E&P Ireland said today it welcomes an examination by An Garda Síochána of allegations that a contractor delivered large quantities of alcohol to Belmullet Garda station on its behalf.

The lead Corrib gas project developer was responding to today’s Irish Times report that An Garda appointed a senior officer over a month ago to examine the claims made by contractor OSSL.

OSSL, which is managed by Desmond Kane of Glasgow and Neil Rooney of Belfast, provided services to the Corrib gas project from 2002 until 2010. read more

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SHELL CORRIB GAS PROJECT SCANDAL: THE FAKE INVOICE?

By John Donovan

The article published on Sunday in The Observer has created a firestorm of interest in Ireland with hundreds of comments posted on online discussion forums.

Many contributors make a very good point saying that the OSSL invoice posted on this website is fake. They raise legitimate concerns about its authenticity, about the VAT number and the content of the email, which looks like it has been drafted to embarrass Shell.

There is a simple answer. Call in the Garda to investigate? Why has this not already been done? Perhaps we already know the answer.
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Allegations of Shell booze bribes for gardaí ‘raise serious concerns’

A company that worked for shell until 2010 claims it delivered a large amount of alcohol to gardaí in Belmullet in December 2007.

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12 Aug 2013

REPRESENTATIVES OF SHELL to Sea have called for an independent inquiry into allegations by a company that it distributed alcohol to gardaí while working on behalf of Shell in Co Mayo.

In an article in The Observer yesterday, Glasgow based company OSSL, which procured materials and services for Shell, claimed it was tasked with providing “a tennis court, cookers, television sets, agricultural equipment, school fees, home improvements, garden centre visits, forestry equipment” for local residents on behalf of Shell, to keep them on side. read more

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SHELL GARDA CORRUPTION SCANDAL EXPLODES IN MAINSTREAM PRESS

Screen Shot 2013-03-05 at 15.42.20So here we have an incredible situation in which a small company publicly and repeatedly admits that it engaged in large-scale long term bribery of the Irish Police on the express instruction of its masters, Shell EP Ireland. It admits that related invoices were falsified on the instruction of Shell to hide what was going on. It admits that the free booze used to bribe the police was brought across the border in a clandestine operation. Yet nearly a year after we first published these admissions, there is no criminal investigation of OSSL?

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By John Donovan

Almost a year after we first broke news of the OSSL allegations against Shell, claiming it had been used by Shell EP Ireland to corrupt the Irish police (the Garda), the story has now exploded in the UK and Irish mainstream press. The Observer published a full page article yesterday and the main Irish newspapers have covered the story this morning. There are now calls for an International Independent Inquiry.

Shell and the Garda have attempted to hide behind a smokescreen device claiming initial internal investigations found no evidence. Because of the continued pressure that this website applied in a variety of ways, including regularly publishing evidence and articles, contacting Alan Shatter, the Irish Justice Minister, and every member of the Irish Parliament etc, both Shell and the Garda have launched further investigations. In the case of Shell, after the personal intervention in May by Royal Dutch Shell CEO, Peter Voser, when he was cornered at the Shell AGM.
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BUSTED – SHELL BRIBE COPS WITH BOOZE

Screen Shot 2013-05-03 at 14.17.32In a separate incident OSSL also revealed that former Shell Ireland CEO, Terry Nolan, pressured OSSL manager Neil Rooney to change his statement to the Office of the Garda Ombudsman who were investigating an attack by the Gardaí on campaigners at Pollathomais pier which resulted in 20 people being injured. [2,3,4] Mr Rooney stated that on the 11th June 2007, Supt. Joe Gannon had told him before the attack ” I’m going to drive these fuckers into the sea “. OSSL claim that Mr Rooney was pressured by Terry Nolan to remove this quote from his final statement, telling him that “our man” (Supt. Joe Gannon) “had to be protected at all costs”. News release – Issued by Shell to Sea 

Monday 12th August 2013

BUSTED – SHELL BRIBE COPS WITH BOOZE

— Shell accused of bribing Gardaí and pressuring sub-contractor into withdrawing evidence —

It has been revealed by a former Shell subcontractor, OSSL, that they provided €35,000 worth of alcohol to the Gardaí in Christmas 2007. [1]
In a separate incident OSSL also revealed that former Shell Ireland CEO, Terry Nolan, pressured OSSL manager Neil Rooney to change his statement to the Office of the Garda Ombudsman who were investigating an attack by the Gardaí on campaigners at Pollathomais pier which resulted in 20 people being injured. [2,3,4] Mr Rooney stated that on the 11th June 2007, Supt. Joe Gannon had told him before the attack ” I’m going to drive these fuckers into the sea “. OSSL claim that Mr Rooney was pressured by Terry Nolan to remove this quote from his final statement, telling him that “our man” (Supt. Joe Gannon) “had to be protected at all costs”. [5]
OSSL claim that when Mr Rooney refused to alter his statement to the Ombudsman that Shell then began to freeze them out of work on the Corrib project and thus began the long-running dispute between them. read more

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Garda says ‘no evidence’ of Corrib alcohol delivery

British newspaper ‘Observer’ reported €70,000 worth of alcohol delivered to force after Corrib gas clashes

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Tom O’Brien: Mon, Aug 12, 2013

The Garda has said it has “no evidence” that €35,000 worth of alcohol was distributed to members of the force policing the Corrib gas pipeline works in the immediate aftermath of clashes with protesters.

Allegations that a company contracted to Shell E&P delivered large quantities of alcohol to the Garda – including a single delivery worth €35,000 to Belmullet Garda station in December 2007 – emerged in British media at the weekend. read more

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Gardai deny gas firm gave them alcohol worth €35k

GARDAI have rejected claims that officers policing the Corrib Gas protests were given alcohol worth €35,000 by the company building the pipeline.

An oil services company has claimed it delivered the alcohol in an unmarked van to Belmullet garda station in Mayo at Christmas 2007 following instructions by Shell E&P Ltd.

And OSSL, based in Bangor Erris, also claims it was charged with providing “accommodation services” to local residents, including home improvements, tennis courts, donating kitchen appliances and paying school fees.

The company, which worked with Shell since 2002, had its contract terminated in 2010, and claims it is owed money by Shell E&P Ltd. read more

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Can Shell’s New CEO Lead It to Greatness?

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On July 9, Royal Dutch Shell (NYSE: RDS-A  ) , the Anglo-Dutch oil giant, announced a new CEO. His name is Ben van Beurden, and he will replace outgoing chief executive Peter Voser next year.

Before Shell made the announcement, few people, even inside the industry, knew who van Beurden was. He only recently joined Shell’s executive committee and was by no means leading the pack of executives expected to succeed Voser.

But upon closer review, he may be just the right man for the job. Let’s take a closer look. read more

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Royal Dutch Shell: They’ve Really Got a Friend in Pennsylvania

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So, Royal Dutch Shell decided to create a junket for some of the Ukrainians opposed to fracking to show them just how wonderful fracking is. They were going to bring the Ukrainians to northeastern Pennsylvania, and give them an all-expenses-paid four day tour.

By (about the author)   10 August 2013

Royal Dutch Shell, which owns or leases about 900,000 acres in the Marcellus Shale, had a great idea.

It wanted to frack the Ukraine. But, there was opposition. So, Royal Dutch Shell decided to create a junket for some of the Ukrainians opposed to fracking to show them just how wonderful fracking is.

They were going to bring the Ukrainians to northeastern Pennsylvania, and give them an all-expenses-paid four day tour. The tour was to begin at the end of July. Other shale gas corporations have created press junkets, where they lay out a nice day or two of activities, complete with handouts, trinkets, meals, and lodging. Members of the establishment press often go on these junkets. Some take what they’re told, rework it, and put it into print or on the air. read more

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Shell Corrib protest man bags Edinburgh Fringe Festival award

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Irish actor and writer Donal O’Kelly has scored a notable success with his one-man show, Fionnuala – a play based around to Corrib gasline controversy – winning a coveted Fringe First award at Edinburgh. Each year, Scotsman critics choose plays they feel are of a particularly high standard to receive the awards.

The Hot Press Newsdesk, 10 Aug 2013

Based around an incident last year in which a Shell tunnel boring machine, called Fionnuala, sank into a Mayo bog, the play tells the story of a Shell PR executive, called Ambrose Keogh, who is summoned to a midnight court in a fairy fort by Fionnuala of the Children of Lir. Fionnuala puts on a spell on Keogh, who has to tell the truth about Shell’s activities, or else he’ll be turned into a frog (for which ‘Keogh’ is the Irish word). read more

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SHELL GARDA CORRUPTION IN IRELAND EXPOSED BY THE OBSERVER

“The Observer asked the Garda and Gilligan specifically to deny the delivery, but no denial came, only a repeat of the prepared statement. The Observer replied that, unless a denial was received, we would presume the veracity of OSSL’s story. Silence ensued.”

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HEADLINE: Strange tale of Shell’s pipeline battle, the Garda and £60,000 worth of booze

Shell’s Corrib gas project has been delayed for years by strong resistance in County Mayo. Now claims are emerging of corporate sweeteners, including a consignment of alcohol for police after a clash with protesters

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For 10 years, the Shell oil and gas behemoth has endeavoured to bring ashore a pipeline from the Atlantic into the heart-stopping beauty of Ireland‘s County Mayo seaboard. And for 10 years, local people whose ancestors farmed the land and fished the ocean have been determined to stop it.

The struggle has become an epic clash between the Goliath that is Shell, backed by the Irish police, and a group assembled around the umbrella protest group Shell to Sea, whose founder, retired primary schoolteacher Maura Harrington, says that, “thanks in no small measure to the Shell to Sea campaign, the project is 10 years behind schedule and its budget has trebled”. read more

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Staying Silent Would Be the Real Crime

Shell and other oil majors such as Gazprom and Rosneft are eyeing the sea ice melt as a business opportunity. Rather than viewing the melting ice as a warning they should invest in climate-friendly renewable energy, the oil majors are taking on extra risks in search of profit and bigger reserves by drilling for oil in one of the world’s most hostile environments. This is folly of the gravest kind.

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Posted: 08/09/2013 1:51 pm

I’ve sat in international courtrooms to report on crimes against humanity during wars in Africa or the Balkans, environmental degradation and conflict in South America or armed aggression between Russia and Georgia. I’ve also reported on whether a Dutch politician had the right to compare Islam with Nazism under laws protecting free speech.

But today I sat in a Dutch court, not as a reporter, but in solidarity with 18 Greenpeace Netherlands activists facing criminal charges over a September 2012 protest at Shell petrol stations as part of Greenpeace’s Save the Arctic campaign. It’s an issue that deserves the same attention given to the human rights cases I once reported on. read more

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Petroleum nationalism fades as super-cycle cools: Kemp

“We are not an opportunity-constrained company, we are a capital-constrained company,” Shell Chief Executive Peter Voser told Reuters in an interview, a position he has stressed to investors several times over the course of this year.

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Fri Aug 9, 2013 7:55am EDT

By John Kemp

Aug 9 (Reuters) – The balance of power between host countries and petroleum companies has shifted decisively as a result of the shale revolution and the push into deepwater oil and gas fields off the coast of Latin America and Africa.

The first decade of the 21st century was dominated by talk about increasing “resource nationalism” as governments demanded a greater share of the revenues from natural resources located on their territory.

But in the past three years, resource nationalism has disappeared from the agenda. Rather than trying to impose tougher terms on oil and gas companies, most countries are now competing to attract investment by offering reductions in royalties and lower tax rates. read more

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Oil majors to stay onshore Nigeria despite grumbles

A wave of planned sales of onshore Nigerian assets by oil majors has prompted speculation that they are finally leaving the Niger Delta because of oil theft, gangsterism and political uncertainty. In reality, though, foreign firms such as Royal Dutch Shell , Chevron, Eni and Total are here to stay, industry sources say.

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Thu Aug 8, 2013 8:02pm IST

* Shell, Chevron selling blocks, Eni reviewing position

* Oil majors complain about security, regulatory uncertainty

* Majors likely to keep hold of best assets, eyeing gas

* Sales could be hampered by state oil firm interests

By Joe Brock

ABUJA, Aug 8 (Reuters) – A wave of planned sales of onshore Nigerian assets by oil majors has prompted speculation that they are finally leaving the Niger Delta because of oil theft, gangsterism and political uncertainty.

In reality, though, foreign firms such as Royal Dutch Shell , Chevron, Eni and Total are here to stay, industry sources say. read more

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Judge orders BP to pay $130 million fees to Gulf claims program

But U.S. Magistrate Judge Sally Shushan in New Orleans ruled that it was “unreasonable” for BP to halt funding. Fees have topped $560 million since Juneau’s team started work in June 2012, shortly after BP reached an agreement with businesses and residents to compensate them for spill-related injuries.

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Wed Aug 7, 2013

(Reuters) – BP Plc (BP.L) must pay $130 million (84 million pounds) to a court-appointed administrator overseeing payments to thousands of people who claimed they were hurt by the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, a federal judge ruled on Wednesday, in a fresh legal setback for the oil company.

BP had balked at funding the third-quarter operating budget for the administrator, Louisiana lawyer Patrick Juneau, complaining that his bill contained “excessive costs.”

But U.S. Magistrate Judge Sally Shushan in New Orleans ruled that it was “unreasonable” for BP to halt funding. read more

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Nigeria: Crude Oil Theft – Shell Recants, Says It Lost U.S.$250 Million Not U.S.$700 Million

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Shell Nigeria, Wednesday, denied claims that its parent company, Royal Dutch Shell, lost $700 million (N112 billion) in second quarter 2013, due to crude theft and other sundry issues in Nigeria, saying that the actual amount lost to operational difficulties in Nigeria is $250 million (N40 billion).

The statement by Shell spokesperson, Mr. Precious Okolobo said, “We wish to correct some wrongful interpretation of aspects of Shell Group earnings in second quarter (Q2) earnings as announced on August 1, 2013, by our CEO, Peter Voser. read more

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Residents install warning signs along Corrib tunnel route

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Áine Ryan: 16 July 2013

CONCERNS about sinkholes along the tunnelling route for the last section of the Corrib gas pipeline at Sruwaddacon Estuary have led residents to instal warning signs. They say they were forced to erect the signs, which state ‘Danger Sinkholes: Keep Back’, because neither Mayo County Council nor the Department of Energy and Natural Resources had taken action.
The residents claim the sinkholes began to appear on May 20 and can be up to eight-foot in depth. read more

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Shell, KPMG and Corruption in Ireland

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By John Donovan

This is another installment of the OSSL saga, the “Mr Fixit” company for Shell EP Ireland that distributed gifts (bribes) worth tens of thousands of Euros on behalf of Shell, in an attempt to smooth the path of a very controversial project.

We now publish a brief selection of past and current email correspondence involving/relating to Mr Liam Grimes of KPMG Ireland and his alleged involvement in these matters.

OSSL claim that Mr Grimes warned OSSL executives on behalf of Shell that: read more

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Of Shell, spill plans and sea ice

As Shell was being granted carte blanche for industrial recklessness on ice, new warnings were surfacing from scientists about the fate of the Arctic that couldn’t be any starker. In Nature, ice scientists examined the potentially catastrophic impacts of plausible Arctic thawing and the release of a giant methane bubble under the ice of the East Siberian Arctic Shelf. They concluded that the melt could have “enormous implications” for the global climate and cost the economy trillions of dollars.

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Blogpost by Ben Ayliffe – August 7, 2013

It’s pretty safe to say that the Arctic is under pressure like never before. Climate change is warming it faster than any other part of our planet. Sea ice is shrinking. The way of life of Indigenous Peoples is seriously threatened and animal habitats are vanishing. Oil companies eye a polar bonanza while hulking fishing fleets are edging ever northwards.

So we were surprised to hear the other night that a court in Alaska had ruled against the challenge Greenpeace took with other environmental groups to have the US government’s approval of Shell’s Arctic oil spill response plan for the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas overturned. read more

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EOG Resources Beats Shell at Its Own Game

The antidote to Royal Dutch Shell is EOG Resources. Shell last week reported dreadful second-quarter results marred, in particular, by a $2.1 billion write-down of North American shale assets. The implication: Shell got sold a few lemons in its U.S. shale grab. The oil major’s market value dropped by $9 billion, or 4%…

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Shell Oil to back away from northwest Colorado

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Published: August 6, 2013

The Associated Press

STEAMBOAT SPRINGS, Colo. — Shell Oil has told officials in Routt and Moffat counties that it wants to sell its oil leases in northwest Colorado to focus on more productive operations.

Shell spokeswoman Carolyn Tucker tells the Steamboat Today that the company has decided to focus on assets with a high growth potential, and the Sand Wash Basin in northwest Colorado didn’t meet that criteria.

In May, Shell officials had said they planned to drill about 17 wells in Moffat and Routt counties this year. Twelve were drilled in Moffat County during the winter. read more

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Trouble in fracking paradise

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By | August 7, 2013, 1:32 AM PDT

The shale revolution is “a little bit overhyped,” Shell CEO Peter Voser said last week as his company announced a $2.1 billion write-down, mostly owing to the poor performance of its fracking adventures in U.S. “liquids-rich shales.” Which of its shale properties have underperformed, Shell didn’t say, but CFO Simon Henry admitted that “the production curve is less positive than we originally expected.”

Shell was a latecomer to the tight oil game. As late as 2010 it was acquiring mineral rights at inflated prices, predicting that those properties would produce 250,000 barrels per day in five years. Three years down the road, they are yielding only 50,000 barrels per day, and the company intends to sell half of its shale gas and tight oil portfolio. Shell has officially abandoned its production target of 4 million barrels per day by 2012-2018. Instead, Voser said, “we are targeting financial performance.” read more

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Shell’s man inside the Garda: Superintendent Joe Gannon

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I have recently reported on the daily email bombardment of Royal Dutch Shell executives by the disgruntled former “Mr Fixit” company for Shell in Ireland: OSSL

The email below provides more information about Shell’s attempt to bully an eye witness into giving perjured evidence to an official inquiry relating to a violent confrontation with Corrib Gas Project protestors, including a leader of  the Shell to Sea campaign, Maurah Harrington.

Shell was apparently absolutely desperate to protect its man inside the Irish Police force, Superintendent Joe Gannon, one of the many Garda, including other senior officers, who accepted the pernicious hospitality of Shell.  read more

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Greenpeace responds to court ruling on Shell’s Arctic oil spill response plan

Screen Shot 2013-01-18 at 10.08.58“Safe drilling in the far north is a fantasy. There is no proven way of cleaning up oil spilled in icy waters and by rubber stamping such an obviously flawed response plan, the US government is inviting the nightmare scenario of a Deepwater Horizon-style spill in the Arctic.

By: Greenpeace

Amsterdam, August 6, 2013 – Commenting on Monday’s ruling by a federal judge in Anchorage that Shell’s oil spill plans for drilling in Alaska’s Beaufort and Chukchi seas don’t violate environmental laws, Greenpeace International Arctic campaigner Ben Ayliffe said:

“Even a cursory glance at Shell’s oil spill response plans shows that the company could not deal with an accident in these remote and challenging waters, and we’re disappointed that the court ruled in Shell’s favour. Despite admitting that a spill in the frozen north is inevitable, Shell operated with a response plan that relied on untested technology and equipment totally incapable of working effectively in some of the harshest conditions on Earth. The company’s claim that it could handle a worst-case spill in the Chukchi Sea is absurd. There have been no tests of spill response equipment in US Arctic waters since 2000 and those equipment tests were deemed a failure.” read more

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EU Plans to Wrap Up Oil-Benchmarks Probe as Quickly as Possible

European Union regulators aim to finish their antitrust probe into alleged manipulation of oil prices by companies from BP Plc (BP/) to Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSA) “as quickly as possible,” the bloc’s antitrust chief said.

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By Stephanie Bodoni: August 06, 2013

European Union regulators aim to finish their antitrust probe into alleged manipulation of oil prices by companies from BP Plc (BP/) to Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSA) “as quickly as possible,” the bloc’s antitrust chief said.

The length of the investigation “depends on a number of factors, including the complexity of the case, the extent to which the undertakings concerned cooperate with the commission and the exercise of the rights of defense,” EU Competition Commissioner Joaquin Almunia said in a written response to a European Parliament lawmaker. read more

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Daily bombardment of Shell by disgruntled Irish Company continues

The daily email bombardment of Shell by their former “Mr Fixit” in Ireland continues unabated. OSSL was used as a conduit by Shell to bribe the Irish Police Force and engage in other illegal activity on Shell’s behalf.

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By John Donovan

The daily email bombardment of Shell by their former “Mr Fixit” in Ireland continues unabated.

OSSL was used as a conduit by Shell to bribe the Irish Police Force and engage in other illegal activity on Shell’s behalf.

A couple of recent examples of the emails being rained on Shell:

From: THE OSSL COMPANY <[email protected]>
Date: 3 August 2013 22:40:57 BST
To: Michael Crothers <[email protected]>, [email protected]
Subject: Re: Sky News read more

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Shell Defeats Challenge to Drilling in Beaufort and Chukchi Seas

Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSA)’s oil spill plans for drilling in Alaska’s Beaufort and Chukchi seas don’t violate environmental laws, a federal judge in Anchorage ruled in rejecting a challenge by conservation groups.

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Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSA)’s oil spill plans for drilling in Alaska’s Beaufort and Chukchi seas don’t violate environmental laws, a federal judge in Anchorage ruled in rejecting a challenge by conservation groups.

The U.S. Interior Department’s approval process wasn’t flawed or based on erroneous assumptions and the approvals don’t violate the Endangered Species Act, the Clean Water Act or other environmental laws, U.S. District Judge Ralph Beistline ruled yesterday. read more

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Shell pumps £3m into research centre at Heriot-Watt

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6 August 2013

Oil giant Shell is to invest £3 million in a scheme to boost exploration research at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh.

The group said the five-year deal to create the Shell Centre for Exploration Geoscience aims to help meet the world’s growing energy demand by combining industry insights with cutting-edge research.

Professor John Underhill, holder of the Shell chair of exploration geoscience, will head up the centre. He said: “The results will help further our understanding of the development, evolution and deformation of sedimentary basins and complement existing strengths within the [university’s] Institute of Petroleum Engineering.” read more

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Shale Explorers Outperforming International Oil Titans

Shell cited the shale writedowns and oil theft in Nigeria after it missed earnings estimates, prompting shares to fall the most in two years.

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By Joe Carroll – Aug 5, 2013 8:24 PM GMT+0100

Oil explorers focused on high-margin shale drilling from Texas to North Dakota are set to outperform Big Oil this year.

EOG Resources Inc. (EOG), Pioneer Natural Resources Co. (PXD) and Continental Resources Inc. are poised to reap bigger returns for investors than energy titans 15 times their market values as they devote almost all their drilling capital to higher-margin, domestic crude wells, said Gianna Bern, founder of Brookshire Advisory and Research Inc. in Chicago. Houston-based EOG is estimated to more than triple profit in 2013 to $1.92 billion. read more

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Fracking By EOG, Shell Caused Damaging Tremors, Suit Says

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Law360, Houston (August 02, 2013, 5:21 PM ET) — EOG Resources Inc. and units of Royal Dutch Shell PLC, Sunoco Inc. and Enterprise Products Partners LP were hit with a proposed class action Tuesday in Texas state court by landowners who say hydraulic fracturing carried out by the energy companies damaged their homes.

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Shell pledges long-term commitment to North Sea oil

Oil and gas production will continue in the North Sea for decades, the chairman of Shell UK has forecast.

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Ed Daniels wants to set something straight. “There’s a misperception that oil majors, Shell included, are not particularly interested in the North Sea,” says the chairman of Shell UK. Photo: Ralph Hodgson

By Andrew Cave: 5 August 2013

Ed Daniels says in an interview in The Daily Telegraph that the UK arm of Royal Dutch Shell, will continue to have a major presence in North Sea production, despite suggestions by commentators that the larger companies will wind down their activities, leaving the area’s mature oil and gas fields to niche specialist players and sovereign wealth funds.

“There’s a misperception that oil majors, Shell included, are not particularly interested in the North Sea,” Mr Daniels said. “Actually, that’s just not true. We at Shell are a big North Sea producer today, representing 14pc of UK oil. read more

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Ireland Digs Deep For Economic Recovery

The solution to Ireland’s economic woes could be under the seabed – if further reserves are found it could begin exporting oil.

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Saturday 03 August 2013

By David Blevins, Ireland Correspondent, in County Mayo

Seismic surveys are to be carried out to ascertain if Ireland has enough oil and gas reserves to export fuel.

Shell is already building the longest gas tunnel in Europe (4.9km) to transport fuel from one field, 85km off the west coast.

If Russia ever turns off the supply, Ireland may soon be able to offer an alternative.

Michael Crothers, managing director of Shell Ireland, explained: “Because Ireland is beside a major market, and the UK is looking at decommissioning nuclear facilities, having to shut down coal-fired power plants because of greenhouse gas emissions, there’s an enormous opportunity for Ireland, if gas can be found, to export into that ready market.” read more

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Shell to pull out of Niger Delta

Anglo-Dutch oil giant Shell is to pull out of its oil activities in Niger Delta, its managing director in the country told the NRC in an interview on Friday.

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Friday 02 August 2013

Anglo-Dutch oil giant Shell is to pull out of its oil activities in Niger Delta, its managing director in the country told the NRC in an interview on Friday.

‘We are leaving,’ Mutiu Sunmonu told the paper. The ‘recklessness’ and size of oil thefts are forcing Shell to halve its activities in the country.

On Thursday, CEO Peter Voser talked of ‘divestment’ in Nigeria during the presentation of the company’s second quarter results. He gave the ‘challenges’ in Nigeria as one reason why Shell booked disappointing results. read more

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ALFRED DONOVAN AND ROYAL DUTCH SHELL

Screen Shot 2013-08-02 at 12.59.12AN OPEN LETTER TO MR MICHIEL BRANDJES, COMPANY SECRETARY & GENERAL COUNSEL CORPORATE, ROYAL DUTCH SHELL PLC.

SUBJECT: THE DEATH OF MY FATHER, ALFRED DONOVAN

From: John Donovan <[email protected]>
Subject: THE DEATH OF MY FATHER, ALFRED DONOVAN
Date: 2 August 2013 12:46:37 GMT+01:00
To: [email protected]

AN OPEN LETTER

Dear Mr. Brandjes

I am disappointed, but perhaps not surprised, that Shell management has not been gallant enough to make any comment about the death of my father, a 96 year old 2nd World War veteran who had a business relationship with Shell stretching back over 50 years, the majority of which was mutually beneficial and friendly. read more

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A Nigerian nightmare for Voser as Shell shares slide

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By Rob Davies: 2 August 2013 (Headline as per newspaper article)

Departing Shell boss Peter Voser lamented a ‘clearly disappointing’ quarter as the oil giant suffered a slump in profit and ditched production targets it set just two years ago.

Continuing problems with oil theft in Nigeria and a writedown on the value of its US shale operations proved the main drag on pre-tax profit, which tumbled 60 per cent to £1.6billion.

Even stripping out the US writedown in its ‘liquids-rich’ shale assets, the quarterly profit was 20 per cent below last year’s result at £3billion, sending shares down 105p to 2133p. read more

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Shell profits drop on shale write-down and Nigerian woes

Royal Dutch Shell profits dropped 60pc to $2.4bn (£1.6bn) in the second quarter after concluding its shale oil and gas assets in North America were worth $2.1bn less than it had thought.

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8:15AM BST 01 Aug 2013

Excluding the impact of the big one-off writedown, profits still fell 20pc to $4.6bn, a result chief executive Peter Voser admitted was “clearly disappointing” and blamed in part on the deteriorating security situation in Nigeria.

Shell said it would embark on a major programme of asset sales, picking up the pace of divestment from the $21bn it has sold off over the past three years. It launched a strategic review of its North American shale assets, as well as a previously-announced strategic review in Nigeria. read more

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