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John VidalPosted by John Vidal Tuesday 12 May 2009 

Shell Eco-marathon: the Sun ends bid to put the Guardian in the shade

The Sun disputes rights to cover Shell’s 2009 Eco-marathon

The Sun and the Guardian do not share much, but they have always had a strange fascination for each other’s journalism. So, on finding that the Guardian might be covering Shell’s annual Eco-marathon – the event where students compete to design build, and test vehicles that can travel roughly 3,000 km (1,864 miles) per litre of fuel – last weekend, the Currant Bun bizarrely threw its toys out of the pram. Presumably needing several days to compose a thoughtful tract on the nexus of issues around climate change, transport and the need for fuel efficiency, it demanded that the Guardian publish no news of the results before today. At first, Shell agreed. Finally, realising that it would be hard to keep the results from 100 other reporters, it relented. So if you want to read the Sun report, go to today’s paper at thesun.co.uk read more

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PetroChina Sees Chance for Mergers, Acquisitions

BEIJING -- PetroChina Co., China's biggest oil company, expects China's slumping prices will help it rein in costs and sees the global economic downturn as an opportunity for overseas mergers and acquisitions. Company executives said they are in talks with international oil majors including Anglo-Dutch Royal Dutch Shell PLC, Britain's BP PLC and U.S. major Chevron Corp., along with state-owned oil giants in Qatar and Venezuela. Shell, BP and Chevron declined comment on specific deals.

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Shell NZ Plans To Sell Most Downstream Assets – Exec

WELLINGTON (Dow Jones)--Shell New Zealand Ltd., a unit of Royal Dutch Shell Group (RD), has appointed UBS AG to help it sell the bulk of its downstream assets in the country, a spokeswoman said Tuesday.

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Shell Seeks Expressions of Interest for N.Z. Units

May 12 (Bloomberg) -- Royal Dutch Shell Plc., Europe’s biggest oil company, is seeking expressions of interest for most of its New Zealand downstream operations including fuel retailing and its stake in the nation’s only refinery.

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