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August 11th, 2007:

The Sunday Telegraph: This is the Week to Come: Shell suit in San Francisco

Compiled by Anne-Marie Conway,
Last Updated: 11:33pm BST 11/08/2007

Shell suit in San Francisco

On Tuesday a San Francisco appeal court is expected to decide whether to allow Royal Dutch Shell to resume exploratory oil drilling off Alaska’s north coast.

The Alaska Wilderness League claims drilling could put polar bears and whales at risk.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/08/12/nweek212.xml

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Citizens Campaign for the Environment: Meeting New York’s Energy Need Without Broadwater

EXTRACT

Broadwater energy, a joint venture between Shell Oil and TransCanada Pipeline, is proposing to build a floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU). The unit would receive, store, and regasify liquefied natural gas (LNG) from oversea gas fields.

Proposed for the middle of Long Island Sound, the LNG barge would require a 25-mile pipeline dug into the bottom of the Sound to connect the facility to the existing Iroquois pipeline. Two to three tankers, carrying up to 2 to 5 billion cubic feet of natural gas, would deliver LNG to the facility every week. Each tanker would take up to 15 hours to offload into the FSRU. The FSRU would be able to store 8 billion cubic feet of natural gas and plans to deliver 1 billion cubic feet per day into the Iroquois pipeline. read more

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BBC News: Gangs clash in Nigerian oil city

Saturday, 11 August 2007, 13:36 GMT 14:36 UK 
 
Four people have been killed in gun battles between rival gangs in Port Harcourt, the main city in Nigeria’s oil-rich Niger Delta region.

A large fuel-pumping station in the city was also attacked.

The latest violence brings the number killed in nearly a week of fighting between gangs to at least 10 people.

Violence around Port Harcourt has increased since militants launched a campaign last year for a greater share of oil revenue for the poor region. read more

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Blogger News Network: 90 YR OLD WEBSITE WARRIOR COSTS ROYAL DUTCH SHELL BILLIONS

A 90 year old war veteran, Alfred Donovan, created a gripe website focused on Shell which, in an extraordinary alliance with the so-called “Kremlin attack dog” Oleg Mitvol, has cost the oil giant billions of dollars and as a by-product, changed the course of history.

This article tells the story of how a $4 a week website set up by a 90 year old internet warrior played a historic pivotal role in world energy politics by supplying to the Russian government crucial documentary evidence which pushed Shell out of its majority stake in the Sakhalin-2 project in Siberia. This established a precedent which led to the same treatment being applied to BP, and in concert with events in other oil rich nations e.g. Venezuela, has changed the balance of control over energy from commercial oil giants to sovereign governments.  In a world with a fast growing insatiable appetite for energy, but with finite dwindling hydrocarbon resources, this fundamental transformation has potential far reaching consequences. read more

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The New York Times: Russia: Bombers Resume Long-Haul Missions

By C. J. CHIVERS
Published: August 10, 2007

Maj. Gen. Pavel Androsov, the commander of Russia’s long-range aviation forces, said its long-range strategic bombers, once part of the Soviet Union’s nuclear forces, had held new flight exercises that included passing by a United States naval base in Guam and trips to the North and South Poles. The bombers also fired eight training missiles at unspecified targets and hit them all, according to General Androsov, who spoke at a news conference. The path of the test flights and the performance of the missiles could not be independently verified but appeared to be another instance of Russia, flush with money from its oil and gas exports, trying to reassert itself as a military and global power. read more

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Congress of The United States: Amendment to Delay Shell Broadwater Energy Project

EXTRACT: Broadwater Energy is a joint venture between TransCanada Pipeline and Royal Dutch Shell.  Broadwater seeks to import fossil fuel from Nigeria to be stored in an almost quarter-mile long LNG barge on the Long Island Sound.

WASHINGTON, DC – Representatives Tim Bishop (NY-01), Rosa DeLauro (CT-03) and Joe Courtney (CT-02) sought to restrict the Federal Energy and Regulatory Commission (FERC) from using funds to continue the application review process of the Broadwater Energy proposal for one year in order to allow for completion of ongoing security studies by offering an amendment today to the Fiscal Year 2008 Energy and Water Appropriations bill.  read more

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The Wall Street Journal: ‘Iran should halt the export of sophisticated explosive devices used to attack U.S. troops in Iraq’ (*Shell’s partner, Iran)

Car Bomb Kills Eight in Kirkuk;
U.S. Helicopter Is Forced Down
Associated Press
August 10, 2007 10:44 p.m.

BAGHDAD — A car bomb struck a market in a Kurdish area in the northern city of Kirkuk Friday, killing at least eight people and wounding dozens, police said. South of Baghdad, the military said a U.S. helicopter was forced down, leaving two soldiers injured.

Meanwhile, the Security Council unanimously approved a resolution Friday expanding the United Nations’ role in Iraq in a move aimed at reconciling the country’s rival groups, winning support from neighboring countries and tackling Iraq’s humanitarian crisis. read more

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The Standard: Sinopec eyes joint venture in US$5b refinery project

Fulton Mak and agencies, The Standard
Published: Aug 11, 2007

China Petroleum & Chemical Corp (0386), or Sinopec, is looking at jointly developing a US$5 billion (HK$39 billion) refinery and ethylene venture in Guangdong with Royal Dutch Shell, Dow Chemical, and Kuwait Petroleum Corp.

Sinopec, Asia’s largest refiner, and its would-be oil giant partners are conducting a feasibility study, president Wang Tianpu said in Beijing.

If the project proceeds, it would become the largest joint-venture investment in the mainland, surpassing the Nanhai petrochemical complex built by Shell and CNOOC (0883). read more

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PR Newswire (Europe): Platts Survey: OPEC Pumps 30.5 mb/d in July, up 280,000 b/d

LONDON, August 11 /PRNewswire/ —

The 12 members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) pumped an average 30.5 million b/d of crude in July, 280,000 b/d higher than June’s 30.22 million b/d, a Platts (http://www.platts.com/) survey showed August 10.

Production from the 10 members bound by output agreements averaged 26.71 million b/d, up 110,000 b/d from June’s 26.6 million b/d, the survey showed.

Iraq, struggling to rebuild its oil industry after years of United Nations sanctions followed by a US-led war, does not participate in OPEC output pacts. Nor, at this stage, does Angola, which joined the producer group at the beginning of this year, after the output curbs currently in place were agreed. read more

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The Guardian: Canada uses military might in Arctic scramble

The Guardian image

(Lancaster Sound, Nunavut, Canada. Global warming has made the Arctic’s oil and gas reserves more accessible Photograph: Louise Murray/Science Photo Library)

· Building programme is response to Russian move
· UN to decide on seabed claims to huge oil deposits

Ewen MacAskill in Washington
Saturday August 11, 2007

An international scramble for the Arctic’s oil and gas resources accelerated yesterday when Canada responded to Russia’s recent sovereignty claims with a plan to build two military bases in the region. read more

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The Times: Arctic military bases signal new Cold War

The Times Photograph 

August 11, 2007
Tim Reid in Washington

Canada fired a warning shot in a new Cold War over the vast resources of the far North by announcing last night that it will build two new military bases in the Arctic wilderness.

A week after Russia laid claim to the North Pole in what is rapidly becoming a global scramble for the region’s vast oil and gas reserves, Stephen Harper, the Canadian Prime Minister, said that Canada would open a new army training centre for cold-weather fighting at Resolute Bay, and a deep-water port at Nanisivik, on the northern tip of Baffin Island. The country is also beefing up its military presence in the far North with 900 Rangers. read more

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Petroleum News: Russia defends North Pole flag-planting

Vol. 12, No. 32  Week of August 12, 2007
The Associated Press

The United States and Canada have scoffed at a Russian submarine expedition that planted a Russian flag on the seabed under the North Pole. Coming home to a hero’s welcome Aug. 8, the famous polar scientist who led the risky voyage did not mince words in responding.

“I don’t give a damn what all these foreign politicians there are saying about this,” Artur Chilingarov, 68, told a throng of well-wishers. “If someone doesn’t like this, let them go down themselves … and then try to put something there. Russia must win. Russia has what it takes to win. The Arctic has always been Russian.” read more

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Petroleum News: Shell group chooses subsea pipelines over FPSO for offshore Perdido development

Vol. 12, No. 32  Week of August 12, 2007

Ray Tyson
For Petroleum News

Shell and partners Chevron and BP have opted for subsea pipelines, rather than what might have been the Gulf of Mexico’s first-ever floating, production, storage and offloading system or FPSO, to transport production to shore from their “ultra-deepwater” and highly acclaimed Lower Tertiary oil discoveries in Alaminos Canyon’s remote Perdido Foldbelt.

Shell spokeswoman Sarah Andreani recently told Petroleum News that “full consideration” was given to “several production system alternatives,” including an FPSO, which generally employs shuttle tankers to move production to market. read more

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