Sun 3 Sep 2006 3:54 AM ET
By Estelle Shirbon
OPOROZA, Nigeria, Sept 3 (Reuters) – Masked rebels from Nigeria’s oil producing Niger Delta vowed revenge against the government and oil companies during the weekend funerals in remote mangrove forests of nine militants killed by troops.
Near Oporoza, a village of thatched wooden huts accessible only by boat through a maze of creeks, a dozen gunmen in black balaclavas watched from their speedboats while three white coffins were buried in a freshly cleared patch of jungle. read more
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September 04, 2006 12:00
FAMILY First senator Steve Fielding wants to limit the amount of service stations that companies can own, in a bid to cut petrol prices.
Senator Fielding says he will introduce this week amendments to the Petroleum Retail Legislation Bill, now before Parliament.
“We as politicians have to make sure that we create a framework that allows competition and allows independence to survive. At this stage we’re not,” Senator Fielding said today.
Senator Fielding is proposing a competitive framework for petrol service stations, so that no one company can own more than 25 per cent of the market. read more
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By GREG WALTERS
September 4, 2006
MOSCOW — Russian authorities may order the Sakhalin Energy international energy consortium to stop pumping oil if it doesn’t correct environmental violations registered over the past year.
Russian officials said they are still several steps away from actually halting production at the venture. Analysts called the possible move an attempt to increase pressure on Royal Dutch Shell PLC, which is at loggerheads with Russian state-owned natural-gas concern OAO Gazprom over an asset swap involving Sakhalin Energy. Shell owns 55% of the consortium, while Japan’s Mitsui & Co. Ltd. holds a 25% stake and Japan’s Mitsubishi Corp., holds 20%. read more
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02.09.2006
Members of 10 research and working groups of the Royal Geographical Society yesterday expressed their serious concern at the Society’s continued links to oil giant Shell against the backdrop of the corporation’s ongoing exploitative behaviour in Ireland and the Niger-Delta.
The academics held an impromptu meeting at the RGS’s annual conference in London where they heard how Shell has formed a consortium to exploit the Corrib natural gas field off the west coast of Ireland. The usual way to process gas is to do so on a rig off shore. The consortium, however, is instead attempting to build a dangerous, experimental pipeline to pump raw, untreated gas straight from the seabed over land to a huge refinery which they plan to build 6 miles inland in the Mayo Gaeltacht. To do this it would be necessary for them to go through a residential area. read more
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Peak Oil Piques Interest?
Comment in relation to the recent topic in The Wall Street Journal: Oil News Roundup: September 1, 2006 4:59 p.m. Peak Oil Piques Interest: ‘Peak-oil’ doomsayers have long been dismissed by oil companies and others, but they are starting to catch the ear of some on wall Street, Bloomberg reports.
I should think so. With several billionaires shifting a large percentage of their interest into alternative energy and oil exploration, the writing’s on the wall. The Saudi Ghawar field dropped an “inexplicable” .8% last month, if this continues for a year then the downside prediction on Hubbert’s Peak will have been realised.
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