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September 22nd, 2005:

Shell plans synthetic fuel production in Germany

Hindustan Times (India): Shell plans synthetic fuel production in Germany

Posted Thursday September 22, 2005

Energy major Shell has announced plans for large-scale production of synthetic diesel fuel in Germany.

Shell said it would invest several hundred million euros over the next few years in the production of synthetic diesel fuel in cooperation with the east German firm Choren.

Three factories with a total production capacity of 200,000 tonnes are being planned, reducing the German oil import bill by 100 million euros annually, according to the announcement.

“We will reduce the dependence on oil imports, improve balance of payments, boost local industries and create a completely new industrial cluster,” Choren board chairman Stephan Schueller said. read more

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Shell disappointed at mediation rejection

Mayo News Online: Shell disappointed at mediation rejection

“SHELL E&P Ireland have promised to continue to seek means of opening dialogue with the Rossport Five in light of the refusal by the five men to accept an offer of mediation from the company”

Posted Thursday 22 Sept 2005

Report by Padraic Burns

SHELL E&P Ireland have promised to continue to seek means of opening dialogue with the Rossport Five in light of the refusal by the five men to accept an offer of mediation from the company. The men, who are now 83 days in Cloverhill Prison, Dublin, last week turned down an offer by Shell to meet the men through their legal representatives.

Andy Pyle, SEPIL Managing Director, said that professional mediation offered a real opportunity for both parties to try to resolve the impasse. “Given the current deadlock, we believed that mediation could have greatly assisted both parties,” said Mr Pyle. read more

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Is Royal Dutch Shell Plc adopting racist policies against its Malaysian employees?

Is Royal Dutch Shell Plc adopting racist policies against its Malaysian employees?

Thursday 22 September 2005 00.10 am EDT NY

Datuk Jon Chadwick
Chairman of Shell Malaysia (Shown right)

By Alfred Donovan

ShellNews.net has obtained a leaked copy of a recent email from Shell Malaysia Country Chairman, Datuk Jon Chadwick to all Shell employees in Malaysia, which responds to points raised exclusively on this website. A number of our articles have focused on the strikingly different approach adopted by Shell in response to employee class action lawsuits brought by its USA staff, as opposed to its utterly ruthless treatment dished out to Shell Malaysian employees. read more

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Efforts to boost crude output hit by soaring costs

The Guardian (UK): Efforts to boost crude output hit by soaring costs

“The situation is particularly acute for Shell, whose 2004 annus horribilis of reserve downgrades has left it under extra pressure to rebuild its asset base quickly.”

Thursday September 22, 2005

Shortages of equipment and skilled staff have added to years of underinvestment

Terry Macalister

A severe shortage of rigs, vessels and people threatens to drive up further the price of oil and is making it harder for producers to secure the future supplies needed to meet soaring energy demand.

Costs across the industry have risen sharply as oil companies compete with each other to grab every available piece of equipment to keep future drilling programmes on track. Rig hire rates have more than trebled. read more

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Total May Use Atomic Power At Oil-Sand Project

The Wall Street Journal: Total May Use Atomic Power At Oil-Sand Project

“Shell Canada Ltd. said it isn’t considering nuclear power as part of its oil-sands plans. Rather, the company said it is looking into the possibility of turning asphaltene, very heavy oil, into gas to save on its natural-gas bill.”

Alternative to Costly Gas
Is Sought for Canada Fields;
Fear of Environmentalists

By DAVID GAUTHIER-VILLARS
DOW JONES NEWSWIRES
September 22, 2005; Page B6

PARIS — French oil giant Total SA, amid rising oil and natural-gas prices, is considering building a nuclear power plant to extract ultraheavy oil from the vast oil-sand fields of western Canada.

This comes as oil prices — driven even higher by Hurricane Katrina and now the threat of Hurricane Rita — are removing lingering doubts about the long-term profitability of extracting the molasseslike form of oil from sand, despite the fact that the output is much more expensive to produce and to upgrade than is conventional crude. read more

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HPCL to buy 26% in Shell’s LNG terminal

Reuters: HPCL to buy 26% in Shell’s LNG terminal

“Hindustan Petroleum Corp. Ltd, plans to buy about a one quarter stake in Royal Dutch/Shell’s 2.5 million tonnes LNG import terminal in Gujarat”

Thursday, 22 September, 2005

Mumbai: Hindustan Petroleum Corp. Ltd, plans to buy about a one quarter stake in Royal Dutch/Shell’s 2.5 million tonnes LNG import terminal in Gujarat, along with rights to market the gas.

“We have an in-principle agreement with Shell to buy equity in the terminal and talks are on to buy about 26 per cent,” Chairman M B Lal told a news conference late on Wednesday.

Earlier on Wednesday Lal had told Hindustan Petroleum’s shareholders the company had completed a due diligence study for acquisition of a stake in the Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) terminal. read more

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Hundreds attend Rossport Five meeting

Galway Independent: Hundreds attend Rossport Five meeting

Thursday 22 Sept 2005

Over 300 people attended a public meeting of the Shell to Sea Campaign in Salthill on Monday night.

Bríd Ní Sheighin, daughter of Micheál O Seighin, one of the Rossport 5, at a public meeting organised by the Shell to Sea campaign in the Sacre Coeur Hotel on Monday.

The group has so far collected 16,000 signatures alone in Galway alone supporting the men’s cause. It has planned a major rally to take place in Dublin on 1 October and has called on all supporters to march from the Garden of Remembrance to the Dáil. read more

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Royal Dutch Shell look to complete unification of UK and Dutch arms

ABC Money.co.uk: Royal Dutch Shell look to complete unification of UK and Dutch arms

“Following the reserves overbooking scandal last year, Royal Dutch Shell had opted to unify its UK and Dutch arms in a bid to restore confidence in the company.”

Thursday 22 Sept 2005

LONDON – Oil giant Royal Dutch Shell has announced that it plans to by out the remaining shares that it does not already own in its Royal Dutch arm thereby taking the final steps towards the unification of its UK and Dutch arms in July.

Currently, Royal Dutch Shell holds 98.5 percent of the erstwhile Royal Dutch. After its merger with Britain’s Shell Transport and Trading in July, the firm said yesterday that the remaining shareholders have the option of either taking cash or equivalent new shares of the merged entity. read more

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Shell Nederland president sees five-fold rise in oil production costs

AFX News Limited: Shell Nederland president sees five-fold rise in oil production costs

Thursday 22 Sept 2005

AMSTERDAM (AFX) – Shell Nederland president Rein Willems said that oil production costs may rise five-fold in the near future.

He said that for Shell, the higher costs will mainly be the result of more difficult resource-gathering and refining methods as the company moves to retrieve oil from sources other than the conventional oil wells.

In an interview with Dutch engineering magazine ‘De Ingenieur’, Willems said that the higher production costs will likely lead to a stronger focus on alternative sources of energy as opposed to raw fossile fuels such as oil. read more

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Rita fears raise oil prices

The Guardian (UK): Rita fears raise oil prices

“The Anglo-Dutch company Shell evacuated staff from its offices in the oil city of Port Harcourt in the Niger Delta, a region that accounts for most of Nigeria’s 2.4 million barrels a day output.”

Thursday September 22, 2005

By Mark Tran

Oil prices today rose to more than $68 (£38) a barrel amid fears that Hurricane Rita will damage oil and gas plants in Texas barely weeks after the havoc wrought by Hurricane Katrina in the New Orleans area.

Six refineries in Texas have shut down as Rita, a maximum category 5 storm with 175mph winds, bears down on the state. Rita, even more powerful than Katrina, is expected to hit Texas, home to a quarter of US refining capacity, early on Saturday.

The six closed refineries in Texas have a total daily capacity of 1.4 million barrels. Together with the four still closed in Louisiana and Mississippi after Katrina, around 14% of US refining capacity is out of action. read more

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Shell Canada warns on oil products earnings

MetroNews (Canada): Shell Canada warns on oil products earnings

Thursday, September 22, 2005

CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) – Shell Canada Ltd.’soil-products division will generate lower-than-expected third-quarter profit, partly because crude costs rose faster than retail gas prices, the company warned on Thursday.

Shell Canada, the country’s No. 2 oil producer and refiner, also said unplanned maintenance on a compressor in a hydro-cracker unit at its Montreal East refinery also cut throughput, with its Edmonton refinery down for a planned outage. read more

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Top judge accused of bias in landmark patent appeal

legalweek.com

Top judge accused of bias in landmark patent appeal

02 May 2002

Author: Paul Hodkinson

A Swedish pharmaceuticals company advised by Simmons & Simmons has launched a groundbreaking appeal against a ruling by Mr Justice Laddie accusing him of having an “appearance of bias” in a patent case.

The highly unusual allegation is one of the grounds of AstraZeneca subsidiary AB Hassle’s appeal against Laddie’s ruling in a patent case.
Laddie ruled that AB Hassle could not enforce a patent for one of its drugs against two rival UK companies, Generics (UK) and Cairnstores. read more

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