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11/27/2006
Russia’s environment watchdog, Rosprirodnadzor, is talking to Russian and foreign lawyers about filing lawsuits regarding the Sakhalin- 2 project in the Stockholm Arbitration Court, a source in Rosprirodnadzor told Interfax.
“All conflicting issues on production sharing agreements should be reviewed in international courts, that is why we are analyzing such a possibility,” he said.
The lawsuits will concern the damage caused to the environment during the project’s implementation, compensation for lost benefits to Russia and the concealment of important information by contractors, the source said.
Mon Nov 27, 2006 11:11am ET
Nov 27 (Reuters) – Russia has turned up the heat on Royal Dutch Shell’s (RDSa.L: Quote, Profile, Research) $22 billion Sakhalin-2 oil and gas project in Russia’s Far East, Exxon Mobil’s (XOM.N: Quote, Profile, Research) Sakhalin-1 and BP Plc’s (BP.L: Quote, Profile, Research) venture with Russia’s TNK.
Following is a list of foreign projects under pressure in Russia.
SHELL’S SAKHALIN-2
One of the world’s biggest energy projects that is expected to cost around $22 billion, double its original budget.
27 Nov 2006 14:58:43 GMT
By Dmitry Zhdannikov
MOSCOW, Nov 27 (Reuters) – Russian state auditor Sergei Abramov said on Monday he expects the Shell-led
“We are expecting the operator to show goodwill. We want the operator to take the initiative to improve the terms for the Russian Federation. I’m sure a mutually acceptable solution will be found. We believe it will be very soon,” Abramov told a briefing in Moscow.
Most questions sent to the online conference with Deputy Head of Rosprirodnadzor (Russian federal nature management watchdog) Oleg Mitvol are about the situation with Sakhalin.
REGNUM readers ask Oleg Mitvol, why media cover only negative features of Sakhalin 2, “most of which are, mildly speaking, exaggerated, starting from dead fish and finishing with the pipeline crossing rivers and seismic dangerous areas.” Authors of such questions stress that activity on Sakhalin 2 Project is assessed by them as populism.
EXTRACT: …Diallo won a court decision in 1995 against Zaire Shell. Guinea charges that rather than pay, Zaire Shell teamed up with the other companies Diallo was suing _ Zaire Mobile, Zaire Fina and Gecamines _ to bribe Prime Minister Kengo Wa Dondo to expel him.
THE ARTICLE
By: ARTHUR MAX
Published: Nov 27, 2006
Corruption in the oil trade is the focus of hearings beginning Monday at the International Court of Justice in a dispute between two west African nations.
The case between Guinea and the Democratic Republic of Congo, raising allegations of massive bribery versus the exploitation of a nation’s wealth, will help define the liability of a successor government for the corrupt practices of its ousted predecessor.
By: Miriam Donohoe, Political Staff,
Published: Nov 27, 2006
Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny has had to view the controversy created by the Corrib gas project from two different perspectives – as a local Mayo TD and as a national political leader. He has been treading a fine line between the pro- and anti-camps and appeared to stay on the sidelines even when the “Rossport Five” were in jail.
Mr Kenny is not alone among Mayo TDs in his caution on the gas controversy. Independent TD Dr Jerry Cowley is a high-profile presence in the protesters’ camp, but Fine Gael’s other Mayo TD Michael Ring, Fianna Fail’s John Carty, and Independent Fianna Fail TD Beverly Flynn are adopting more guarded positions.
Published: Nov 27, 2006
The Corrib gas terminal project at Bellanaboy has caused deeper community tensions and divisions than any other issue in Mayo in modern times. Lorna Siggins , Western Correspondent, reports.
“There is a failure in understanding the community and environment into which this large industrial development seeks to be sited . . . This emphasises how out of context the proposal is . . .”
Comments made over three years ago by Bord Pleanala inspector Kevin Moore on the proposed Corrib gas terminal “came back to haunt the Government, Shell and the people of Erris” earlier this month, according to the Mayo regional newspaper, the Western People .
By: Olivia Kelly,
Published: Nov 27, 2006
An alliance of left-wing groups, including Rossport Five supporters, anti-bin tax campaigners, and incineration protesters, is to run four candidates in the next general election.
The People Before Profit Alliance, formed last year, is to formally register to appear on the ballot paper next year and will run three candidates in Dublin, all of whom are members of the Socialist Workers Party, and one former Labour Party activist in Wicklow.
Prominent anti-war protester and former general and local election candidate Richard Boyd Barrett is running in Dun Laoghaire. Rory Hearne, involved in several campaigns including the protests against the Corrib gas pipeline and the Poolbeg incinerator, is to run in Dublin South East.
By Dino Mahtaniin Johannesburg: Published: November 27 2006 02:00 | Last updated: November 27 2006 02:00
The death of a British oil worker taken hostage in Nigeria’s turbulent oil-producing delta region last week has shattered confidence in counter-militant strategies employed by Nigeria’s military.
Armed gunmen last week kidnapped seven foreign oil workers from a large facility off the coast of the Niger Delta. After they came across a naval patrol, a gun battle ensued, in which the Briton and at least two militants were killed and another expatriate seriously wounded.
By Carola Hoyos,Chief Energy Correspondent: Published: November 27 2006 02:00 | Last updated: November 27 2006 02:00
Kazakhstan’s giant Kashagan oilfield will produce 25 per cent more oil than expected once it hits peak production, international companies developing the field have found.
News that the field, the largest and most important discovered in more than 30 years, will yield significantly more than the 13bn barrels forecast is a breakthrough as dwindling world oil supplies and problems accessing oil-rich countries such as Iraq raise doubts about meeting rapidly increasing demand.
Nov 26, 2:35 PM ET
Bolivian President Evo Morales arrived in the Netherlands on Sunday to meet senior government officials and executives from Shell following his recent legislation to nationalize the country’s oil and gas industry.
He was meeting members of the Dutch Bolivian community Sunday evening before his official duties began Monday with talks with Foreign Minister Ben Bot, Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende, and Royal Dutch Shell PLC chief executive Jeroen Van der Veer and chief financial officer Peter Voser.
Shell International Exploration & Production – Big changes coming for big oil: The evolving landscape of R & D in the upstream oil and gas industry
Thursday, 30 November 2006
10:30am to 12:00pm
Dr. Robert Perrons is a Smart Fields Consultant in Shell International’s Exploration & Production division. Rob started his career in Shell’s Strategy & Economics team in 1997, and then worked for several years as a production engineer in the company’s overseas operations (offshore and onshore). He then left Shell for three years to work as an Industrial Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge, but re-joined Shell again in 2004 to become the company’s Executive Coordinator of R&D. He has a B.Eng. in mechanical engineering from McMaster University in Canada, a S.M. degree in Technology & Policy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a PhD in engineering from the University of Cambridge, where he was a Gates Cambridge Scholar.
Sunday, 26 November 2006
A group of Christ Church farmers chose an historic Shell-sponsored motor event in Barbados today, to put their case about environmental pollution on their lands to top officials of the international oil giant.
And the company, through Raoul Pinnell, chairman of Shell brands international, promised to meet with them to resolve the issue.
Amidst all the red representing the colours of Ferrari many would have missed this group dressed in yellow at the event sponsored by Shell.
11/26/2006
CALGARY – SHELL CANADA is talking about its Enhance™ froth treatment technology for bitumen recovery from oil sands. The technology was developed by Shell Canada with the help of CANMET Energy Technology Centre staff at Devon, Alberta.
The Enhance foam treatment process uses high temperature in the paraffinic froth treatment process to remove more sand, fine clay particles and other impurities than conventional processes can remove from oil sands froth. By treating froth at a higher temperature, Shell says it will be able to use smaller equipment, less water and less energy than low-temperature processes. And, the company says, lower energy consumption will result in fewer greenhouse gas emissions. Overall recovery efficiency should improve 10%, as well.
By Steven Mufson and Juliet Eilperin
Washington Post Staff Writers
Saturday, November 25, 2006; A01
While the political debate over global warming continues, top executives at many of the nation’s largest energy companies have accepted the scientific consensus about climate change and see federal regulation to cut greenhouse gas emissions as inevitable.
The Democratic takeover of Congress makes it more likely that the federal government will attempt to regulate emissions. The companies have been hiring new lobbyists who they hope can help fashion a national approach that would avert a patchwork of state plans now in the works. They are also working to change some company practices in anticipation of the regulation.
Posted by Noel Sheppard on November 26, 2006 – 22:32.
On Saturday, the Washington Post effectively demonstrated how the press cherry-pick snippets of speeches that political and business leaders give in order to completely alter their intent (hat tip to NB member crshedd). In an article entitled “Energy Firms Come to Terms With Climate Change,” authors Steven Mufson and Juliet Eilperin took a few quotes — one of them actually errant — out of a 3,610-word speech that Shell Oil President John Hofmeister gave about a month ago to make it look like he’s totally bought into the myth of global warming (emphasis mine throughout):
This is not a Shell website. That fact should be abundantly plain from the overall content of this home page and our sister Shell-focussed websites, including shellnazihistory.com. Click on the Disclaimer link at top of this page for more information. You Can Be Sure Shell does not endorse or approve of this website. There are no subscription charges nor do we solicit or accept donations. It is an entirely free to use website drawing attention to the negative side of Shell while also publishing positive news about the company. The Shell logo image with the white text used on this website, as per the above example, is in the public domain because its copyright has expired and its author is anonymous. It can be found on WIKIMEDIA COMMONS. Our shellenergy.website publishes Shell Energy customer complaints posted on Trustpilot where there is an ample supply. Use this link for Shell’s own website.
EBOOK TITLE: “SIR HENRI DETERDING AND THE NAZI HISTORY OF ROYAL DUTCH SHELL” – AVAILABLE ON AMAZON
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Royal Dutch Shell conspired directly with Hitler, financed the Nazi Party, was anti-Semitic and sold out its own Dutch Jewish employees to the Nazis. Shell had a close relationship with the Nazis during and after the reign of Sir Henri Deterding, an ardent Nazi, and the founder and decades long leader of the Royal Dutch Shell Group. His burial ceremony, which had all the trappings of a state funeral, was held at his private estate in Mecklenburg, Germany. The spectacle (photographs below) included a funeral procession led by a horse drawn funeral hearse with senior Nazis officials and senior Royal Dutch Shell directors in attendance, Nazi salutes at the graveside, swastika banners on display and wreaths and personal tributes from Adolf Hitler and Reichsmarschall, Hermann Goring. Deterding was an honored associate and supporter of Hitler and a personal friend of Goring.
Deterding was the guest of Hitler during a four day summit meeting at Berchtesgaden. Sir Henri and Hitler both had ambitions on Russian oil fields. Only an honored personal guest would be rewarded with a private four day meeting at Hitler’s mountain top retreat.
IN JULY 2007, MR BILL CAMPBELL (ABOVE, A RETIRED GROUP AUDITOR OF SHELL INTERNATIONAL SENT AN EMAIL TO EVERY UK MP AND MEMBER OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS: 
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MORE DETAILS: After a solicitor acting for Shell threatened to make the litigation "drawn out and difficult" with the intention of draining the resources of a financially weaker opponent, my late father (Alfred Donovan) and I decided to mount a wide-ranging campaign as a counter-measure. We jointly founded the Shell Corporate Conscience Pressure Group, which nearly 15% of Shell UK retailers joined. We regularly conducted ethical surveys involving up to 1500 Shell petrol stations. All responses were opened and authenticated by an independent solicitor who supplied Affidavits confirming the results. In whole page announcements in trade magazines (examples above) we challenged Shell to commission and publish the resuits of independent research asking the same questions and offering respondents GUARANTEED anonymity. Shell never took up the invitation. Instead it asked the UK Advertising Standards Authority to investigate our Shell surveys. No problems were found. The head-cut image of Alfred Donovan appears courtesy of The Wall Street Journal. 
See our link list of over 500 articles by the FT, Wall Street Journal, Reuters, Bloomberg, Forbes, Dow Jones Newswires, New York Times, CNBC etc, plus UK House of Commons Select Committee Hansard records, information on U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission website etc. all containing references to our Shell focussed websites, or our website founders Alfred and John Donovan. Includes TV documentary features in English and German, newspaper and magazine articles, radio interviews, newsletters etc. Plus academic papers, Stratfor intelligence reports and UK, U.S. and Australian state/parliamentary publications, also citing our Shell websites. Click on this link to see the entire list, all in date order with a link to an index of over 100 books also containing references to our websites and/or our activities.
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A head-cut image of Alfred Donovan (now deceased) appears courtesy of The Wall Street Journal.
