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August 14th, 2009:

Shell shuts Utorogu gas plant in Nigeria

LAGOS, Aug 14 (Reuters) - Royal Dutch Shell (RDSa.L) said on Friday it had halted its Utorogu gas plant in Nigeria's southern Niger Delta after an incident on the Escravos-Lagos Pipeline System.

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Shell pushes low-sulphur fuels

ROTTERDAM, Netherlands, Aug. 14 (UPI) — A new facility in the Netherlands will contribute to an increase in the production of cleaner-burning fuels, says supermajor Royal Dutch Shell.

Royal Dutch Shell announced it would construct a $500 million hydrodesulphurization plant at the Pernis refinery in the Netherlands.

The plant will increase the production of cleaner-burning, low-sulphur fuels at the 400,000-barrel-per-day oil refinery when it comes on stream in the second half of 2011, the energy giant says. read more

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Citigroup Upgrades Royal Dutch Shell To Buy

FOX BUSINESS: Friday, August 14, 2009

LONDON — Royal Dutch Shell was upgraded to buy from hold at Citigroup on Friday. “We believe growing visibility around project delivery over the next 12-24 months should finally provide the impetus to unlock material upside in the most deeply discounted value case in the sector,” the broker said. Shares rose 1.5%.

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Shell worker’s death not a suicide, widow asserts

Steve Lesher, a spokesman for the refinery, declined to comment on the claim and deferred to the Oakland-based law firm handling the case. The firm declined to comment.

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Shell’s Voser Backs Rudd on Australian Emissions Plan, AFR Says

Bloomberg

By John Viljoen

Aug. 14 (Bloomberg) — Royal Dutch Shell Plc Chief Executive Officer Peter Voser expressed support for Australia’s planned emissions trading system at a meeting with Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, the Australian Financial Review reported.

Voser met with Rudd and Treasurer Wayne Swan in Canberra on Aug. 12 to discuss the carbon pollution reduction system and plans to invest in Australian energy projects, the Review said, without saying where it got the information.

Voser told Rudd and Swan that Shell favored the system because it wanted policy certainty as it prepares to expand Australian operations, the report said. The Shell chief’s position appears to contrast those of LNG rivals who have argued that Rudd’s proposed system would impose an unfair burden on Australian gas producers in favor of overseas projects. read more

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