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April 5th, 2008:

UK biofuel needs ‘threaten delta’

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A papyrus reed raft on Lake Tana, source of the Blue Nile and home to many bird species. Photograph: Michael S.Lewis/Corbis

The Observer: UK biofuel needs ‘threaten delta’

Hundreds of bird species are in danger from plans to plant sugar cane and build a refinery in Kenya

Juliette Jowit, environment editor
Sunday April 6 2008

The lush, muddy wetlands of the Tana river delta, teeming with birds and home to hippos and crocodiles, lions and elephants, are more than 4,000 miles from Britain. But this patchwork of savannah and mangrove swamp on the east coast of Africa is the latest victim of the British thirst for biofuels. read more

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The fall of UBS: the bank where Royal Dutch Shell Chief Financial Officer Peter Voser is a director

The Sunday Times: The fall of UBS

After owning up to £18billion in writedowns, UBS boss Marcel Ospel last week fell on his sword

By Iain Dey
Sunday April 6, 2008

Marcel Ospel picked up the phone on Monday, March 17, with bad news for his London-based head of equities, John Wall. The UBS chairman had spent the weekend in board meetings. Although the financial markets were focused on the imminent rescue of the American investment bank Bear Stearns, UBS had uncovered problems of its own.

A tortuous analysis of the bank’s remaining exposures to sub-prime mortgages in America had confirmed that Switzerland’s biggest bank would have to launch an enormous rights issue to shore up its balance sheet. read more

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Turning oil companies into dinosaurs

The Virginian-Pilot: Turning oil companies into dinosaurs

The Virginian-Pilot
© Sunday April 6, 2008

IT’S SO EASY to pick on the big oil companies, especially when gas prices hit $4 a gallon and ExxonMobil executives are nursing hangovers from the party to celebrate their $40 billion in profits last year.

But five executives from Royal Dutch Shell, BP, Chevron, ConocoPhillips and ExxonMobil had one plaintive message for Congress last week: “Don’t blame us.”

They found fault with the planet’s several billion people as well as with its cud-chewing critters. China and India, they said, are gobbling up too much petroleum for their factories. Iraqis are letting the daily threat of suicide bombings distract them from drilling. Caribou are hogging the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. read more

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First Oil Shipment for Stealth under its contract with Shell Oil

Marketwire: First Oil Shipment for Stealth

Saturday April 05, 2008 22:16:15 EDT
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, Apr 5, 2008 (Marketwire via COMTEX News Network) —

Stealth Energy Inc. (CNQ:STLH) –

Oil

Work Over Program:

The company reports that the ongoing ‘work over’ program at its East Teapot Dome oilfield in Wyoming has so far been successfully completed to the extent of now nine pump jack wells in production. This program is continuing. Stealth also reports that it has already made its first shipment of 265 barrels and a further shipment is currently scheduled for this week, and thereafter, on a continuing and regular basis, under its contract with Shell Oil. read more

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Speaker at Tehran rally demands: ‘The Zionist company of Shell should be expelled from Iran’

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An Iranian holds up a religious flag while attending a protest in front of the Dutch embassy in northern Tehran April 5, 2008. (REUTERS/Morteza Nikoubazl)

Saturday April 5, 2008

thestaronline: Iran rally against Dutch film draws small crowd

TEHRAN (Reuters) – Iranian students protesting against a film critical of Islam’s holy book, the Koran, found themselves outnumbered by police and press outside the Dutch embassy on Saturday.

Police pushed the protesters back after they threw three or four eggs and a couple of small stones. read more

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Former BP chief speaks on cuts

Houston Chronicle: Former BP chief speaks on cuts

Lawyer quotes Browne as saying budget slashed in years before blast

April 4, 2008, 10:40PM

By KRISTEN HAYS
Copyright 2008 Houston Chronicle

The former chief executive of British oil giant BP acknowledged Friday that he ordered deep budget cuts at the company’s U.S. refineries in the years before a March 2005 explosion killed 15 at its plant in Texas City, a lawyer said.

During an hourlong deposition, John Browne didn’t repeat BP’s oft-stated contention that there was no link between the blast and cutbacks that put off maintenance and upgrades at the aging Texas City refinery, said Brent Coon, the Beaumont lawyer who has spearheaded vast explosion-related litigation. read more

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World cooling on biofuel solution to climate change

Times of Oman: World cooling on biofuel solution to climate change 
 
AFP
Saturday, April 05, 2008 1:35:56 PM Oman Time
 
JAKARTA –– Once a golden promise in the fight against climate change, biofuels are fast losing their lustre as high demand for essential crops drives land clearing and pushes up the price of food.

Biofuels made from food crops such as corn, sugar, soybeans and oil palm burn cleaner than fossil fuels, but experts say high demand is sending ripples through the world economy, and could be doing the environment more harm than good. read more

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European politics: show me the money: ‘that lovely little seat on the board of Royal Dutch Shell’

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Former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair and former Dutch ‘Minister President’ Wim Kok

RadioNertherlands.nl: European politics: show me the money

Commentary by Robert Chesal

03-04-2008

Forza Italia leader Silvio Berlusconi leads the polls ahead of a snap election, and a comeback is likely after 20 months in opposition. Europeans used to shake their heads in disbelief at the electoral successes of the media mogul from Milan. But these days, the big money politics he popularised is gaining ground, in London, Paris, Berlin… and beyond. read more

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Shell CEO Jeroen van der Veer Warns Short-Term Energy Policies Risk Economic Slowdown By 2020

CNNMoney.com: Shell: Short-Term Energy Policies Risk Econ Slowdown By 2020

April 03, 2008: 01:03 PM EST

LONDON -(Dow Jones)- Top Royal Dutch Shell PLC (RDSB.LN) executives will say Monday that short-term energy policy decisions and a failure to curb energy demand may result in a temporary global economic slowdown within 12 years.

In a presentation in Brussels to the Friends of Europe think-tank, Shell Chief Executive Jeroen van der Veer and Jeremy Bentham, responsible for the company’s energy outlooks, will say that under a scenario they call “Scramble”, the rush by consuming nations toward coal, biofuels and heavier hydrocarbons spells a world economic slowdown by 2020 as a supply crisis takes hold. read more

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Fuel supplies problem at airport

BBC News image Shell Stanlow Refinery 

There was a problem with the quality of jet fuel at the oil refinery

BBC News: Fuel supplies problem at airport  

Friday, 4 April 2008 17:20 UK
 
Flights travelling from Manchester Airport face cancellation following a problem with fuel supplies.

Jet fuel from its suppliers at Shell’s Stanlow refinery in Ellesmere Port has been shut off since Wednesday because it was found to be of a poor standard.

The airport can store four million litres of fuel but can use up to three million litres a day. read more

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Shell bullish on Chukchi oil and gas potential

Reuters: Shell bullish on Chukchi oil and gas potential

Sat Apr 5, 2008 1:32am BST 
By Yereth Rosen

ANCHORAGE, Alaska, April 4 (Reuters) – Alaska’s Chukchi Sea, the remote region separating North America’s northwestern tip from northeastern Siberia, is one of the “potentially most prolific oil fields” left in the world and could ultimately compare to the Gulf of Mexico as a source of domestic energy, a Shell (RDSa.L: Quote, Profile, Research) official said Friday.

“We estimate maybe 100 different (geologic) plays out there,” Rick Fox, Alaska assets manager for Shell, said in a speech to the World Affairs Council of Alaska. But only a few of them attracted bids in a record lease sale in which Shell put up $2.1 billion for exploration rights, he said. “Only about 14 of them got attention in the lease sale,” he said. read more

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Citigroup slumps as HSBC becomes world’s largest company: Shell number 6 in Forbes rankings

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Daily Telegraph: Citigroup slumps as HSBC becomes world’s largest company

By David Litterick
Last Updated: 1:29am BST 05/04/2008

HSBC has supplanted Citigroup as the world’s largest company, according to Forbes magazine.

The British bank has grabbed the coveted top spot in the magazine’s list of the biggest 2,000 companies and joins three other UK companies in the top 10.
  
Citi, which has dominated the list since its inception in 2004, has been laid low by the credit crunch and has slumped to a lowly 24th in the league table. read more

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