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Contractors, employed by Transredes, a pipeline company part owned by Royal Dutch Shell, lay a new natural gas pipeline in Patacamaya, Bolivia, Thursday, Oct. 4, 2007. Bolivia’s President Evo Morales ordered the nationalization of his nation’s oil and gas industry last year. After extensive negotiations, foreign energy companies were allowed to remain in Bolivia but agreed to turn over majority control of their operations to the state. (AP Photo/Dado Galdieri) (Dado Galdieri – AP)
By Daniel Whitten
Oct. 5 (Bloomberg) — Royal Dutch Shell Plc won’t begin producing oil and gas from a Gulf of Mexico lease sale until 2013 at the earliest, said Marvin Odum, the company’s executive vice president in charge of North and South America.
Odum told reporters in Washington today that the company is renewing its commitment in the Gulf because of the stability of the U.S. market, though it will take a while to start production. Shell, the Gulf’s biggest oil and gas producer, was top bidder in a lease sale on Wednesday, offering $554.6 million for 69 tracts.
By John Donovan
5 October 2007
On 22 September 2007, The Times newspaper reported:
“Since the 1990s, Royal Dutch Shell has been at war with a family who registered a website, royaldutchshellplc.com. The Donovan family, led by 90-year-old Burma veteran Alfred…”
http://royaldutchshellgroup.com/2007/09/21/the-times-martin-waller-city-diary/
Alfred Donovan is the father of the author of this article. The website has been described by the Financial Times newspaper as being “anti-Shell”.
By Benoit Faucon and Alexander Koliandre
Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES
LONDON (Dow Jones)–A rising death toll among TNK-BP Holding’s (TNBP.RS) workers searching for oil and laboring on its rigs and pipelines in Russia highlights flaws in the accuracy and transparency of the company’s safety record and clouds attempts by joint venture partner BP PLC (BP) to polish its own reputation for safety.
Deaths from road accidents have fallen since 2004 and thus lowered the total number killed at TNK-BP from 22 to 15 last year, which includes one killed in a road accident, the company says.
Friday, October 05, 2007
By Julia Bauer
GRAND RAPIDS — When gas prices went sky-high last year, closely followed by incredible oil company profits, John Hofmeister and his team of 200 executives at Shell Oil Co. decided to hit the road.
In a 50-city sweep, dubbed the National Dialogue on Energy Security, the team members are hosting town-hall meetings, sharing an upbeat view of the future of fuel and meeting with local elected officials and organizations.
This week, Hofmeister, 59, is hitting Michigan. He began Thursday in Grand Rapids, meeting with Mayor George Heartwell and speaking to the World Affairs Council of West Michigan.
After lunch, Hofmeister was to stop in Lansing for a brief meeting with Gov. Jennifer Granholm, then head for Detroit for another round of meetings today, including one with General Motors Corp.
By Dino Mahtani in London
Published: October 5 2007 03:00 | Last updated: October 5 2007 03:00
Sasol expects to see its first gas-to-liquid project producing normally by next year after solving a technical problem that had caused a serious delay.
The South African chemicals and liquid fuels company is a pioneer in converting coal to liquid fuels, developing the technology in the country’s isolation during the apartheid regime.
But its newest gas project in the gas-rich gulf state of Qatar, which has plans to turn itself into the gas-to-liquids capital of the world, has been bogged down in delays since last year.
By Guy Dinmore in Rome and Isabel Gorst in Astana
Published: October 5 2007 03:00 | Last updated: October 5 2007 03:00
Romano Prodi, Italy’s prime minister, takes a 200-strong business delegation to Kazakhstan this weekend while facing the tricky task of lobbying for foreign investors without politicising the dispute over the development of the giant Kashagan oilfield by an Italian-led -consortium.
Italian officials said yesterday that Mr Prodi, joined by Emma Bonino, the international trade minister, would put a “strong focus” in their talks with President Nursultan Nazarbayev on Monday on new amendments to the natural resource law.
By GUY CHAZAN
October 5, 2007; Page A12
A merger creating one of Europe’s largest energy companies was overshadowed by scandal yesterday when the chairman of the new entity resigned over a corruption investigation.
Eivind Reiten said he was standing down as chairman of StatoilHydro ASA over a probe into the Libyan portfolio of Norsk Hydro, one of the two companies involved in the merger.
The resignation of Mr. Reiten, a former Norwegian oil and energy minister and one of Norway’s most high-profile businessmen, is embarrassing for StatoilHydro, which made its debut on the stock exchange Monday. The company was formed in a $35.5 billion merger of Norwegian energy giant Statoil ASA and Norsk Hydro’s oil and gas division.
Terry Macalister The Guardian Friday October 5 2007
The world’s largest offshore wind farm, which will occupy a site of 90 square miles off the coast of Kent, has been given the go-ahead by the government and should be ready to provide clean power for a quarter of London’s homes by 2010.
But a sharp increase in costs for the scheme from the original estimate of £1.5bn to closer to £2bn could still push it off course. Costs have soared while the London Array project has been delayed 18 months because of local opposition to an electricity sub-station near Faversham.
· Emergency relief chief calls for swift action
· 12 out of 13 ‘flash’ appeals in 2007 related to weather
Julian Borger, diplomatic editor
The Guardian Friday October 5 2007
A record number of floods, droughts and storms around the world this year amount to a climate change “mega disaster”, the United Nation’s emergency relief coordinator, Sir John Holmes, has warned.
Sir John, a British diplomat who is also known as the UN’s under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs, said dire predictions about the impact of global warming on humanity were already coming true.
Econcern is constructing the Q7 wind farm off the Dutch coast
By Paul Eccleston
Last Updated: 2:01pm BST 04/10/2007
It can’t be seen, tasted or touched but it comes in limitless amounts and is totally free.
And because it has the capacity to help solve Britain’s energy crisis it has sparked a new North Sea bonanza.
With the glut of oil and gas now almost gone the rigs are gradually being superseded by slimmer more elegant coastal sentinels – offshore wind turbines.
Because they are sited miles out to sea wind farms don’t annoy the neighbours, can be built on a much grander scale and so produce far more power than their often unloved, land-locked cousins.
Updated: Oct 4, 2007 10:56 PM
By PATRICK CENTER
GRAND RAPIDS – Shell Oil Company president John Hofmeister sat down with 24 Hour News 8 for a one-on-one interview Thursday. Hofmeister, in town for an appearance at the World Affairs Council, answered questions on a wide range of energy-related issues.
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PATRICK CENTER: The motoring public says, ‘Wait a minute it seems like there’s always an excuse, every week, to raise prices.’ what do you say to those people?
JOHN HOFMEISTER, Shell Oil Company president: The law of supply and demand is the driving law and people’s behavior is what addresses supply-demand issues. So, we don’t sit in Houston, for example, and decide what prices people in Grand Rapids are going to have to pay for Shell gasoline. That’s decided by local market conditions, by wholesalers who serve the retail market here and the customers in this region…
Current Publication Date: 05/10/2007
Dublin Shell to Sea is organising a series of events in the capital to mark a year since hundreds of gardaí were drafted in to break up a 15-month-long peaceful blockade by local people at Shell’s proposed refinery site at Bellanaboy.
These events follow an all-night, candle-lit vigil which took place at the gates of the site on Wednesday night, Thursday morning. Local people gathered to mark 12 months of “an illegally conducted occupation of our community, carried out by our own State forces on behalf of Shell and their so-called Corrib gas partners,” according to Rossport resident John Monaghan.
By John M. Biers
Last Update: 10:31 PM ET Oct 4, 2007
HOUSTON (MarketWatch) — Royal Dutch Shell PLC which has been scaling back its marketing operations in recent years, plans to divest its remaining company-owned retail gasoline sites in the U.S. over the next two years, a spokeswoman said Thursday.
Shell will exit its remaining large markets between now and 2009, including New York, San Francisco and Houston, said Shell spokeswoman Anne Peebles. The Shell brand is expected to remain on most of the affected stores, but the stores will no longer be owned by Shell, or by its refining joint-venture, Motiva Enterprises LLC, Peebles said.
Fri Oct 5, 2007 12:06am BST
MEXICO CITY, Oct 4 (Reuters) – Mexican state oil monopoly Pemex said on Thursday it had signed a collaboration agreement with Royal Dutch Shell (RDSa.L: Quote, Profile, Research) to pool research and know-how to help them improve production yields.
The noncommercial agreement means the two companies will exchange studies and experiences in areas like oil and gas well productivity and recuperation rates.
It comes within a general cooperation agreement that Pemex and Shell signed in 2004, one of several such accords Pemex has with other oil companies like Britain’s BP Plc (BP.L: Quote, Profile, Research) and Brazil’s Petrobras (PETR4.SA: Quote, Profile, Research)(PBR.N: Quote, Profile, Research).
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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. 
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A head-cut image of Alfred Donovan (now deceased) appears courtesy of The Wall Street Journal.
