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June 4th, 2012:

Gazprom and Shell highlight Sakhalin II project success

06/04/2012 | 12:19pm

Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) hosted today a working meeting between Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee and Peter Voser, Chief Executive Officer of Royal Dutch Shell within the 25th World Gas Conference.

The parties discussed bilateral cooperation in the energy sector.

Alexey Miller and Peter Voser highlighted that the Sakhalin II project was progressing successfully as well as examined the issues of bilateral cooperation deepening.

Background Shell is a British-Dutch petroleum company focused on hydrocarbons production, processing and marketing in over 90 countries of the world.

On April 18, 2007 Gazprom and the shareholders of Sakhalin Energy (Royal Dutch Shell, Mitsui & Co., and Mitsubishi Corporation), the Sakhalin II project operator, signed the Purchase and Sale Agreement providing for Gazprom to acquire a stake of 50 per cent plus one share in Sakhalin Energy. read more

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New Motiva Port Arthur crude unit out of production -sources

Mon Jun 4, 2012 11:18am EDT

HOUSTON, June 4 (Reuters) – Motiva Enterprises newly commissioned 325,000 barrel per day (bpd) crude distillation unit at the 600,000 bpd Port Arthur, Texas, refinery was taken out of production following a malfunction early Monday, according to sources familiar with refinery operations.

The unit was placed on circulation following vapor releases, the sources said. It could be returned to normal operation later on Monday.

Gulf Coast gasoline differentials rose Monday morning as news of the Motiva outage permeated the market. Conventional M2 gasoline gained 1.50 cents per gallon to 10.50/9.50 cents under July RBOB futures on the New York Mercantile Exchange, while A2 CBOB climbed 2.00 cents to 12.00/11.00 cents under. read more

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Shell Oil Rigs — The First to Explore the Arctic Ocean in Decades — Delayed by Sea Ice

By Dan Fiorucci Channel 2 News5:45 p.m. AKDT, June 3, 2012 Seattle, Washington— The Vice President of Shell Oil in Alaska today told Governor Sean Parnell (R-Alaska) and Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) that heavy sea ice in the Bering Straight will delay historic drilling operations — scheduled for this summer. 

Those operations will encompass the first exploratory drilling in the Arctic Ocean — off of Alaska’s Coast — in 20 years. (In 2003, there was some exploratory drilling on what are called “Gravel Islands” off of Alaska’s Coast, but those operations are not comparable in scale to this one.

That word came as Parnell and Murkowski toured two massive drilling rings, The Kulluk and “Noble Discoverer”.

They will spend the short summer drilling season searching for what are believed to be massive oil deposits in the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas. read more

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Shell Drilling Rigs Ready to Leave for Chukchi Sea — Greenpeace is Watching

By Dan Fiorucci Channel 2 News6:05 p.m. AKDT, June 2, 2012 Seattle, Washington—

Rival Vessels are both sitting in the Port of Seattle tonight (Saturday).

And both are on the verge of an historic mission.

The first of those vessels consists of  2 unique drilling rigs — refurbished by Shell Oil.

They are the Kuluk and the Noble Disocverer. If all goes as planned, then both vessels will enter the Chukchi Sea next month. They will beome the first rigs in more than 2 decades to conduct exploratory drilling there.

So much oil is thought to be trapped beneath the seabed of the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas, that it’s hoped that within the next decade or 2, it will add a million barrels a day to the flow of the Trans Alaska Pipeline. read more

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