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June 11th, 2007:

The Guardian: Businesses accused of green hypocrisy

· Oil firm says one thing and does another, says charity
· Blame government, not commerce – Livingstone

Terry Macalister
Tuesday June 12, 2007

The business community was accused yesterday of “cynicism” for saying one thing and doing another in the fight against climate change.

At a “summit” on the issue organised by the Guardian in London, Tony Juniper, executive director of Friends of the Earth, accused Shell of sponsoring the event in a bid to align itself with green issues while failing to clean up its own act. read more

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The Times: Need to know: Global Business Briefing

June 12, 2007

Natural resources

Royal Dutch Shell said it had appealed a court ruling ordering it to pay 6 billion naira (£75 million) in damages to three local communities in Nigeria. The high court in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, last month ordered the Anglo-Dutch oil company to pay the damages for breaching a lease agreement on land on which it has staff residential quarters.

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/markets/article1917855.ece

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Financial Times: Energy Filter: Stirring words on Sakhalin

June 11, 2007
By Ed Crooks

My colleague Lucy Kellaway has a characteristically brilliant – and almost persuasive – defence of the widely-discussed motivational email from David Greer, the deputy chief executive of Sakhalin Energy, who leant heavily on the words of General Patton (FT stories require subscription.) The email has also been published on www.royaldutchshellplc.com, an anti-Shell website run by a father and son partnership that has been a long-running thorn in the company’s side. read more

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Financial Times: Blair criticised for voicing Russia fears

Royal Dutch Shell was forced last November to sell control of its $20bn (€15bn, £10bn) Sakhalin-2 oil and gas venture to state controlled Gazprom following a government pressure campaign over alleged environmental violations. BP’s flagship Russia venture TNK-BP is being threatened with the loss of its licence to develop its east Siberian Kovykta field over licensing violations. Many observers see the move as part of a wider gambit to force TNK-BP’s Russian shareholders to sell control to a state-controlled energy group, such as Gazprom. read more

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BBC News: Gazprom talk lifts Centrica stock

11 June 2007 

Shares in British Gas-owner Centrica climbed by more than 2% on speculation it could be a target for Russian gas giant Gazprom.

The suggestion came after Gazprom’s deputy chief executive Alexander Medvedev said the firm was close to increasing its presence in the UK.

The controversial state-owned company previously expressed an interest in buying Centrica back in February 2006.

However, Gazprom denied it was planning a takeover of Centrica.

“We don’t have Centrica or Scottish and Southern in our sights at the moment,” said Philip Dewhurst, a spokesman for Gazprom Marketing and Trading, the firm’s UK unit. read more

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AFX News Limited: Shell to appeal Nigeria damages ruling

06.11.07, 10:29 AM ET
 
LAGOS (Thomson Financial) – Royal Dutch Shell said today it has appealed a court ruling ordering it to pay six billion naira (147 mln usd) in damages to three local communities in Nigeria.

The high court in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, last month ordered the Anglo-Dutch oil company to pay the damages for breaching a lease agreement on land on which it has staff residential quarters.

The communities accused Shell of taking full ownership of 153 acres of land in the south of the country for which it held a 99-year lease. read more

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Red Faces at Shell Over Leaked Memo

George C. Scott as General George S. Patton

(George C. Scott as General George S. Patton)

Recipients of this email missive from David Greer, the beleaguered Deputy CEO of Sakhalin Energy (a subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell), were confused by some of it’s more confusing and/or rather archaic turns of phrase. “Pipeliners and engineers love to fight and win, traditionally” Greer observes, puzzlingly. He continues, “All real engineers love the sting and clash of real challenge.” Stinging and clashing not traditionally associated with engineering, you’d have to say, but maybe that’s just how this fucker rolls. read more

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Business Day (Nigeria): Shell plans to spend N228.6bn to stop gas flare

June 11th, 2007
OLUSOLA BELLO

Royal Dutch Shell plc says it plans to spend $1.8-billion to end gas flaring in the Niger Delta, even though it may not meet the 2009 deadline it set for itself to end gas flaring.

The company says it has spent a total of $3-billion (N381-billion) in tackling the problem.

The company is blaming it inability to meet the deadline on the security situations in the Niger Delta, which has delayed it plans to end gas flaring.

It had earlier declared that it would not be able to meet the 2008 deadline given by the Federal Government, but rather January 2009. read more

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Reuters: Shell says repairs start at Nigerian oil pipeline

Mon Jun 11, 2007 1:08 PM BST

LONDON, June 11 (Reuters) – Royal Dutch Shell Plc said on Monday repairs are under way after a leak at a Nigerian oil pipeline forced the company to cut output by 77,000 barrels per day last month.

The leak occurred on May 25 on the Nembe pipeline in Nigeria’s southern state of Bayelsa and Shell, Nigeria’s largest foreign producer, had been in talks with community members to get access to the site.

“We are in the area and progressing with trying to get production up and running,” said Shell spokeswoman Eurwen Thomas. “Repair work is in progress.” read more

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Shanghai Daily: Gazprom says no to Shell’s part in Russia field

By Stephen Voss
2007-6-11  
 
ROYAL Dutch Shell Plc, Europe’s largest oil company, would like to participate in developing Russia’s Shtokman field if invited to do so but a senior official at state-run OAO Gazprom said that’s unlikely to happen, Bloomberg News reported.

Rival companies including Statoil ASA, ConocoPhillips and Total SA have been given a second chance to help develop Shtokman. The field is Russia’s largest untapped gas deposit and lies under Arctic waters off the coast of Siberia. read more

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Bloomberg: Oil Trades Little Changed After Falling on Stockpiles, Rates

EXTRACT: Royal Dutch Shell Plc can’t forecast when expatriate staff will return to Nigeria’s delta region to restore output cut by militant attacks, Chief Executive Officer Jeroen van der Veer said in a June 9 interview. The company is maintaining conservative guidance on its output and assumes “no major production is coming back” this year, Van der Veer said.  

By Trisha Huang and Gavin Evans

June 11 (Bloomberg) — Crude oil was little changed in New York after falling last week on increasing U.S. stockpiles and speculation rising interest rates may slow commodity demand. read more

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Time Magazine: Quotes of the Day: From General David Greer

Time Magazine Sakhalin-2 photograph

Wednesday, Jun. 06, 2007

“… So Lead me, Follow me or Get out of my way; Success is how we bounce when we are on the bottom”.

DAVID GREER
deputy CEO of a consortium running a natural gas project in Russia for Shell, rallying his employees in a memo

Photo: Sergei Karpukhin / Reuters | Source: Financial Times

(Time Magazine was unaware of the true origin of the quote when they credited it to David Greer)

http://205.188.238.109/time/quotes/0,26174,1629779,00.html

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HULIQ, NC: Breaking News: Royal Dutch Shell Executive disgraced in plagiarism scandal

David Greer, Shell Deputy Chief Executive of the $22 billion Sakhalin-2 project in Russia is exposed as a plagiarist after circulating a motivational memo containing inspirational passages borrowed liberally from a speech made by U.S. General George S Patton over 60 years ago

THE ARTICLE

Last Monday, 4 June 2007, David Greer, the Deputy Chief Executive of Sakhalin Energy Investment Company thought he was starting just another routine week in his high flying life. He could not has guessed that within days he would end up as the subject of a front page stories on The Financial Times and The Moscow Times exposing him as a blatant plagiarist. read more

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Financial Times: Motivational memos must make their message clear

By Lucy Kellaway
Published: June 11 2007 03:00 | Last updated: June 11 2007 03:00

What is the worst motivational memo ever written?

Given that this is a wretched literary genre in which almost every example is lamentable, to find the very worst is a tall order. Yet last week the Financial Times published what seemed a sublimely bad memo written by a Royal Dutch Shell manager and asked readers if this could deserve the title.

The memo (www.ft.com/shell) is crass, poorly punctuated and most of it wasn’t even written by its author, David Greer, deputy chief executive of Royal Dutch Shell’s Sakhalin Energy Investment Company. He had lifted the words of General George S. Patton with no attribution, and clumsily adapted them to spur on his team of recalcitrant pipeline engineers. read more

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Financial Times: Putin calls for new world order in trade and finance institutions

By Neil Buckley and Catherine Belton in St Petersburg
Published: June 11 2007 03:00 | Last updated: June 11 2007 03:00

Russian president Vladimir Putin called yesterday for a radical overhaul of the world’s financial and trade institutions to reflect the growing economic power of emerging market countries – including Russia.

Mr Putin said the world needed to create a new international financial architecture to replace an existing model that had become “archaic, undemocratic and unwieldy”. read more

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Financial Times: Business undeterred by Moscow doubts

EXTRACT: One participant said Mr Van der Veer stood up and thanked Mr Putin for helping Shell reach a satisfactory deal. Another participant confirmed this, but said the meeting was an “unusually frank discussion about all topics and didn’t dodge any questions”.

THE ARTICLE

By Neil Buckley and Catherine Belton in St Petersburg
Published: June 11 2007 03:00 | Last updated: June 11 2007 03:00

Heads of the world’s largest companies this weekend said they would step up investment in Russia, despite warnings from political leaders that faltering relations with the west could harm Russia’s investment prospects. read more

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The Wall Street Journal: Shell Begins Cost Cuts In Nigerian Operations

June 11, 2007; Page A14

Royal Dutch Shell PLC said it has started implementing cost cuts to its Nigerian operations that are likely to include job reductions, to combat rising costs and falling oil revenue caused by production outages.

Shell is the biggest Western oil company in Nigeria, Africa’s largest oil producer, through its 30% stake in a government-run venture, Shell Petroleum Development Co. A spokesman declined to comment on exact measures the cost-cutting program entails.

A Nigerian news report said yesterday several hundred job cuts were planned. read more

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The International Herald Tribune: Putin wants new economic ‘architecture’

EXTRACT: At the meeting, Jeroen van der Veer, the chief of Royal Dutch Shell, asked Putin to clarify the rules of investment for energy companies in Russia, Reuters reported. Last autumn, Shell lost control of its Sakhalin-2 development in a forced sale to Gazprom, the natural gas monopoly. Putin responded by reciting the history of the Sakhalin project and thanked van der Veer for his role in resolving the dispute.

By Andrew E. Kramer
Sunday, June 10, 2007
 
ST. PETERSBURG: President Vladimir Putin sought to reassure investors and foreign leaders that Russia remained committed to free trade and investment for businesses that work here, in spite of a chill in political relations with the West. read more

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