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September 23rd, 2008:

Shell Signs New Biofuels Research Agreements With Chinese Institutes

Dr. Graeme Sweeney, Shell executive vice president Future Fuels and CO2 said, "Shell's in-house biofuels R&D is longstanding, leading and globally coordinated.

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Apartheid class action group in US court again

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23 September 2008

Apartheid class action group in US court again  

Ernest Mabuza

Legal Affairs Correspondent

THE Khulumani Support Group would hold pickets in three provinces on Thursday to coincide with the reopening of its long-running lawsuit in the New York District Court, the group’s media advocacy co-ordinator, advocate Sipho Mantula, said yesterday.

The group filed a lawsuit in November 2002 in New York against 23 corporations and banks on the basis that they had aided and abetted the apartheid government in gross human rights violations. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of 87 people against multinational companies including BP, DaimlerChrysler, Ford, Rheinmetall, Shell and Total. read more

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In Gas Deal, Shell Gains Iraq Presence

raqi Oil Minister Hussein al-Shahristani told reporters Monday the deal with Shell was worth "billions of dollars." Shell declined to put a price on the investment, saying the agreement signed Monday merely set out the commercial principles of the joint venture, which will be 51% owned by Iraq's state-run South Gas Company and 49% by Shell.

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Shell makes move into Iraq

Linda Cook, Shell's head of gas and power, was in Baghdad yesterday to sign a multi-billion dollar agreement to make commercial use of gas currently being flared off in southern Iraq.

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FitzGerald turns to spookery

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FitzGerald turns to spookery

By Emiliya Mychasuk and Emiko Terazono

Published: September 23 2008 03:00 | Last updated: September 23 2008 03:00

Tentacles of the spy group Hakluyt have spread as Thomson Reuters co-deputy chairman Niall FitzGerald takes over as chairman from Sir William “Willie” Purves , the former HSBC chairman who steps aside after nine years.

The Mayfair-based company, with a former Gurkha acting as sentinel on the door, has built its “focused business intelligence” under Sir William and chief Keith Craig , a former MI6 man who joined in 2000. It was founded in 1995 by two former MI6 officers, loftily naming it after the Welsh author and explorer. They have since departed. read more

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Oil price jumps $25 in a day

Crude oil prices jumped $25 a barrel on Monday – the largest one-day rise – as financial investors betting on falling oil prices were forced to cover their positions ahead of the expiry of the current benchmark futures contract.

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Shell Sets Up First Iraq Office Since the 1970’s

“We are ready to establish a presence,” the official, Linda Cook, executive director of the company’s gas and power unit and a member of the board, said during a news conference in Baghdad’s heavily guarded Green Zone in response to a question

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