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March, 2013:

Interior Dept. criticizes Shell’s Arctic drilling

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By , Published: March 14

The Interior Department issued a report sharply critical of Shell’s exploration drilling efforts in the Chukchi Sea off Alaska last year, but Secretary Ken Salazar gave the company the go-ahead to try again in 2014.

Environmental groups harshly criticized the report and said it raised questions about the department’s ability to conduct independent regulatory oversight.

“Exploration in the Arctic is a key component of the President’s all-of-the-above energy strategy, and is important to our understanding of the oil and gas potential in this frontier region,” Salazar said after the completion of a 60-day review by the department that recommended companies follow “Arctic specific” standards.

Shell has already announced a “pause” in its drilling plans after a series of delays and mishaps culminating in its rig, the Kulluk, getting damaged in a storm when it ran aground on its way to port.

Shell has spent nearly $5 billion and several years preparing to drill for oil in the Chukchi Sea off Alaska’s Arctic coast. Harsh weather limits the drilling season there to about three or four months and Shell’s plans were delayed both by its trouble getting federal approval of its containment system and by an unusually late ice season. Eventually the company pared back its plans and instead of completing two to six exploration wells it installed blowout preventers on the top of partially drilled wells. read more

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Report Says Shell Unprepared for Arctic Drilling

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ANCHORAGE, Alaska March 15, 2013 (AP)

Shell was not fully prepared when it launched its trouble-plagued Arctic offshore drilling program last year, and the oil company also fell short in overseeing key contractors in the effort, according to a federal report released Thursday.

The report follows a 60-day review by the Interior Department that focused on problems Royal Dutch Shell PLC experienced with its drilling vessels and a spill containment vessel. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said the company will have to submit more comprehensive plans before it would be allowed to operate in the Arctic again. read more

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Interior Dept. Warns Shell on Arctic Drilling

WASHINGTON — The Shell Oil Company must provide a detailed plan addressing numerous safety and operational issues that plagued its efforts to extract oil beneath the Arctic Ocean last year if it wants to resume drilling off the coast of Alaska, the Interior Department said Thursday.

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By A version of this article appeared in print on March 15, 2013, on page B2 of the New York edition

WASHINGTON — The Shell Oil Company must provide a detailed plan addressing numerous safety and operational issues that plagued its efforts to extract oil beneath the Arctic Ocean last year if it wants to resume drilling off the coast of Alaska, the Interior Department said Thursday.

Shell has already announced that it will not return to the Arctic Ocean in 2013, saying it would take a “pause” to repair its damaged equipment and review its drilling and safety systems.

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said that would not be enough. He said the company must demonstrate to the government and an independent reviewer that it has the equipment, the management capacity and a plan for all contingencies before it can resume operations. read more

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Shell will be under closer watch

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Government’s report on Arctic woes too mild, activists argue

By Jennifer A. Dlouhy | March 14, 2013

WASHINGTON – The Obama administration on Thursday vowed to keep a closer watch on all areas of Shell’s Arctic drilling operations – from deployment to demobilization – before allowing the company to hunt for oil in the region again.

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar delivered the promise as administration officials wrapped up a probe of blunders surrounding Shell’s hunt for oil in the Chukchi and Beaufort seas last year, including the out-of-control drift of a drillship, violations of federal pollution permits and the grounding of Shell’s Kulluk rig on an Alaskan island. read more

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Shell screwed up in 2012 says US Interior Secretary Ken Salazar

Screen Shot 2013-01-11 at 20.09.51“Shell screwed up in 2012, and we are not going to let them screw up after their pause is over,” Interior Secretary Ken Salazar told reporters today on a conference call.

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Arctic-Specific Rules Required After Shell’s 2012 Mishaps

By Mark Drajem – Mar 14, 2013 9:45 PM GMT

Royal Dutch Shell Plc will need to win approval of a full operating plan before it resumes drilling off the coast of Alaska, following a series of mishaps in its 2012 operations, the U.S. Interior Department said.

An Interior review of Shell’s exploration in the Arctic found shortcomings in oversight of various contractors and said the company started work “not fully prepared.” The company announced a pause in its plans last month.

“Shell screwed up in 2012, and we are not going to let them screw up after their pause is over,” Interior Secretary Ken Salazar told reporters today on a conference call. Salazar ordered a staff review of Shell’s experience in January, and he released its findings today. read more

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Shell General Business Principles

Screen Shot 2013-03-14 at 22.37.23“…THE SHELL GENERAL BUSINESS PRINCIPLES ARE A BEDROCK OF OUR SUCCESS, THROUGH TOUGH TIMES AND GOOD TIMES”: PETER VOSER, CEO

WHEN SHELL INTRODUCED ITS GENERAL BUSINESS PRINCIPLES IN NOVEMBER 1976 IT WAS ONE OF THE VERY FIRST COMPANIES IN THE WORLD TO DO SO. Andrew Vickers, today’s guardian of the principles, explains why they were needed: “Historically, Shell had been a collection of disparate companies,” he says. “There was a feeling that we needed a collective statement of principles to enable us to conduct our business in a consistent way across our global operations. It was initially just one side of paper, but it provided the foundation for much of the Shell success story in the years since then.”Dynamic and relevant

The business principles have evolved over time with updates in 1984, 1988, 1990, 1994, 1997 and 2005.

Vickers says:

“Our Business Principles are dynamic and continually reflect the world outside. So, in the late 1980s and early 1990s, as the world become more aware of, and concerned by, issues around sustainability we adapted our principles accordingly. Equally, in 2005 after the collapse of Enron, we amended the principles to include strengthening compliance.”

Today, the Shell General Business Principles is an eight-page document in which the eight principles are outlined. They cover the following areas: economic; competition; business integrity; political activities;  health, safety, security and the environment; local communities; communication and engagement; and compliance. They are all underpinned by the core values of honesty, integrity and respect for people. read more

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Royal Dutch Shell chief executive Peter Voser bags £2.8m cash bonus

Voser receives double BP counterpart’s prize after success in north American gas and China expansion

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Royal Dutch Shell chief executive Peter Voser received a €3.3m (£2.8m) cash bonus in 2012, a year in which the Anglo-Dutch oil group reported a fall in profits from $28.6bn to $27bn.

The bonus took his total salary package to €5.1m, down from €5.2m the previous year, although this is still more than double the $2.7m (£1.8m) package given to BP boss Bob Dudley last year. Dudley received no bonus as the company continues to deal with the consequences of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. read more

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Shell case against Greenpeace upheld

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WASHINGTON, March 14 (UPI) — The U.S. Court of Appeals said environmental group Greenpeace needs to end its campaign of interfering with Shell’s work offshore Alaska.

The court upheld a ruling from the lower U.S. District Court for Alaska. The appeals court said Shell had shown “a likelihood of success on the merits of its claim that Greenpeace USA would commit tortuous or illegal acts against Shell’s arctic drilling operations in the absence of an injunction,” reports energy news site Rigzone. read more

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Selection of links to Shell related articles 14 March 2013

Selection of links to Shell related articles kindly supplied by a regular contributor

Royal Dutch Shell suspected to have unlawfully resumed oil …: spyghana.com-Feb 26, 2013: Shell Oil should note that it vowed when it’s stopped from operating in … to Shell’s position on its Website, “We are judged by how we act – our …

Shell Announces Decommissioning of VSAT, Transition to Cybera …: PYMNTS.com-Shell Oil Company, the No. 1 selling gasoline brand in the U.S., announced it will migrate its payment card traffic off of the VSAT satellite system … read more

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Shell CEO showered with €9.9M package for 2012

Screen Shot 2013-02-03 at 10.49.23By John Donovan: Based on the MarketWatch/Dow Jones report published today (see below), I calculate that Shell’s scandal-tainted fat cat CEO, Peter Voser, will receive a package worth almost €10 million for 2012, three times as much as the CEO of BP.  Voser is the bean-counting, corner-cutter, who sent Shell’s rustbucket drilling fleet on a hapless voyage to the Arctic, plagued by a series of incidents, ending in a PR disaster that may have sunk its Arctic ambitions. The fiasco ironically took place after Voser ruthlessly put the boot into BP

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By Sarah Kent: March 14, 2013, 5:06 a.m. EDT

LONDON–Royal Dutch Shell PLC awarded its chief executive Peter Voser a cash bonus of EUR3.3 million ($4.3 million) on top of an annual salary of EUR1.6 million and other benefits, taking his total remuneration in 2012 to EUR5.1 million, the company’s annual report showed Thursday.

Mr. Voser received more than double the remuneration of the Chief Executive of the other major U.K.-listed oil company, BP PLC’s (BP.LN) Bob Dudley, who received salary, cash bonus and other benefits worth $2.7 million in 2012, according to its annual report. read more

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John Lewis Slipping Off its Ethical Trading Platform

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By John Donovan

I feared that the John Lewis UK department store chain, which also owns Waitrose Supermarkets, was in danger of slipping off it ethical trading platform when it announced plans to get into bed with the scandal-ridden oil giant, Shell.

It is worth remembering that Shell conspired directly with Hitler, financed the Nazi Party, was anti-Semitic and sold out its own Dutch Jewish employees to the Nazis. It has plundered and polluted in Nigeria for several decades. Shell has also defrauded its own shareholders. Its ethical track record is the worst of any company in existence.
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Shell and BASF agree $316m toxic payout

FINANCIAL TIMES

By Samantha Pearson in São Paulo: March 12, 2013 5:24 pm

Royal Dutch Shell and Germany’s BASF have agreed to pay up to $316m to workers exposed to toxic chemicals in Brazil, drawing to a close a six-year legal battle that has overshadowed the companies’ local operations.

A pesticide factory in São Paulo state, operated by the companies for three decades until it was shut down in 2002, has been blamed for 60 deaths in the local community as well as a series of health problems ranging from memory loss to prostate cancer. read more

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Selection of links to Shell related articles 12 March 2013

Selection of links to Shell related articles kindly supplied by a regular contributor

Shell issues oil production warning in Nigeria: Las Vegas Sun-Shell said in a statement Tuesday that it was declaring “force majeure” on shipments of Bonny Light crude oil after it shut down its Nembe …

Norway’s Arctic idyll shivers at oil plans: GlobalPost-With oil production falling to a 25-year low this year and the state … “Down the road, it’s probably an important area. … The relative warmth makes Norway an exception for Arctic drilling – Shell has abandoned drilling off Alaska … read more

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Prosecutors say Shell BASF chemical contamination killed 60

Screen Shot 2012-04-28 at 16.28.57Oil producer Shell and German chemical company BASF agreed on Monday to pay compensation that could reach 620 million reais ($316 million) to workers exposed over three decades to toxic chemicals at a Brazil plant, prosecutors said. Labor prosecutors say chemical contamination killed 60

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Tue Mar 12, 2013 3:23am GMT

* Labor prosecutors say chemical contamination killed 60

* Government shut down pesticide plant in 2002

* Shell doubts link between chemicals, worker injury

By Peter Murphy

BRASILIA, March 11 (Reuters) – Oil producer Shell and German chemical company BASF agreed on Monday to pay compensation that could reach 620 million reais ($316 million) to workers exposed over three decades to toxic chemicals at a Brazil plant, prosecutors said.

Brazil’s public labor prosecution service said 60 people were killed from prolonged exposure to chemicals used to make pesticides at the plant. The factory began operating in the 1970s in Paulinia in Sao Paulo state until government authorities ordered it to shut down in 2002. read more

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Shell Corruption in Nigeria

Screen Shot 2013-02-15 at 09.15.38More evidence has emerged to show that global oil giants, Shell and ENI, were very much aware that they were paying over a billion dollars to an ex-con in a shady deal over a Nigerian oil bloc.; An email presented during the trial also mentioned that the Shell official who feted with Mr Etete would refer to someone in The Hague known as “Peter” over the terms of the deal. Curiously, Shell’s CEO is named Peter Voser. Mr. Voser has not responded to questions sent by our partner, Global Witness, a U.K. based international organisation committed to transparency and accountability in the global extractive industry, on whether he is the “Peter” mentioned in the email.

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By Nicholas Ibekwe, 11 March 2013

More evidence has emerged to show that global oil giants, Shell and ENI, were very much aware that they were paying over a billion dollars to an ex-con in a shady deal over a Nigerian oil bloc.

Despite insisting that they had no previous knowledge that a huge chunk of the $1.1billion (N155 billion) they paid to the Nigerian government for oil block OPL-245 will be transferred to Malabu Oil, owned by convicted felon Dan Etete, proceedings from a recent U.K. High Court case shows that Shell, and Italian energy giant, ENI, were aware of the final destination of the money. read more

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UK Shale Gas Numbers Could Be Stratospheric

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UK Shale Gas Numbers Could Be Stratospheric

By Peter C Glover

EXTRACTS

Should we? Shouldn’t we? While Europe dithers over whether the blatant economic success of the US shale gas ‘miracle’ will translate to these shores, the UK Government has been slightly more pro-shale active. But, while the threat of (liberal democrat-instituted) over-regulation still casts a shadow, the pro-shale (mostly conservative) wing of government looks set for a stratospheric boost.

For the second time in the last couple of months, the London Times reports industry sources as claiming the upcoming British Geological Survey’s (BGS) official assessment of UK shale reserves, due next month, will be “increased dramatically”.  If the report is to be believed, the figures being touted for domestic reserves could well prove to be a dazzling “200 times greater than experts previously believed”.  read more

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Shell licenses gas technology to Saudi project

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Shell Global Solutions International has signed a gasification licensed technology agreement with Saudi Aramco, the fully integrated energy and chemicals company, for the largest residue gasification unit to ever be built.

The Jazan Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle Project (IGCC) agreement includes the licensing of Shell gasification and acid gas removal technologies and the provision of engineering services. Shell’s CRI/Criterion catalysts and a sulphur recovery unit (SRU) will also treat the off gases from the acid gas removal unit. read more

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Selection of links to Shell related articles 11 March 2013

Selection of links to Shell related articles kindly supplied by a regular contributor

VIEW FROM AWAY: Arctic Ocean a rough place to do business: Kennebec Journal-Mother Nature made the point the Obama administration chose to ignore two years ago as it was processing an application by Shell Oil to …

Oil sands firms move on cutting costs: Globe and Mail-Perfect comparisons are tough to make, but the Shell expansion of its Athabasca Oil Sands Project, work that added 100,000 barrels a day of …

Shell Spotlights Oil & Gas Technology Innovation at MEOS …: Zawya (registration) (press release)-Manama, BAHRAIN -March 11, 2013 — Responding to the region’s growing energy demands, oil and gas leader Shell will share its latest … read more

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Over 27,000 articles, comments and documents are available on this website by using our internal Search facility at the top of the far right column. There are no charges of any kind.

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Shell releases Acid Gas into environment at Deer Park Refinery

On three dates, records showed, Shell emitted more toxic compounds in a single day than its permits allowed in an entire year.

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Shell Reports Equipment Failure, Flaring at Deer Park, Texas, Refinery -Filing

Published March 10, 2013 by Dow Jones Newswires

Shell Oil Co. said equipment failure at its Deer Park Refinery in Deer Park, Texas, resulted in flaring Saturday, when a release of acid gas was routed to a flare stack during normal procedures, a report to the U.S. National Response Center said.

The filing didn’t specify which unit or units were involved in the incident, nor did it say whether the event had an impact on production.

A Shell representative wasn’t immediately available to comment. read more

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Shell facing up to 15 fraud claims

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EMBATTLED oil major Shell has been hit by at least 15 multi-billion-dollar claims of fraud, it has emerged.

London Evening Standard: Shell facing up to 15 fraud claims

James Rossiter, 10 March 2004

EMBATTLED oil major Shell has been hit by at least 15 multi-billion-dollar claims of fraud, it has emerged. Previously it was thought the group was the target of only one.

US class-action specialist Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach has attracted attention as it was the first to launch a $5bn (£2.7bn) claim against Shell and nine present and former directors of the Anglo-Dutch company, including former chairman Sir Philip Watts, within days of Shell admitting in January it had overstated its oil reserves. read more

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After Watching Shell, Statoil Considers Walking Away From Arctic Offshore Leases

Screen Shot 2013-03-09 at 19.51.15One key reason for Statoil’s reluctance to rush into Arctic offshore operations is the cost involved. Shell has spent approximately $5 billion on equipment and preparations, only to see its state of the art oil spill response equipment “crushed like a beer can” in a routine test off Puget Sound. And both of the company’s specialized Arctic drilling rigs were so badly damaged in accidents last year that Shell will tow them to Asia for substantial repairs — delaying its own exploration plans until at least 2014.

By Climate Guest Blogger on Mar 9, 2013 at 11:17 am

By Kiley Kroh

This week a top executive with Norway-based Statoil said it would be willing to walk away from Arctic offshore drilling if exploration in the harsh and remote environment proves too risky.

In an interview at the IHS CERAWeek conference in Houston, Tim Dodson, Statoil’s executive vice president of global exploration, acknowledged the numerous challenges associated with Arctic offshore drilling and reiterated his company’s cautious approach to exploration in the region. read more

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Carson Residents Protest Shell Oil Company Contamination

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Residents of the Carson Carousel neighborhood marched in protest from Dolphin Park to a Shell Oil facility on Wilmington Avenue Friday evening. The Carousel tract is built over a former Shell Oil tank farm and contamination was discovered in the soil in 2007. The Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board is overseeing Shell’s clean-up plans; which residents complain are moving too slow.

Residents of the Carousel Tract neighborhood in Carson staged a protest against Shell Oil Friday by marching with signs from Dolphin Park to a Shell facility on Wilmington Avenue. Myra Groce, left, and Clemencia Ortega, center, and Juanita Talavera, right, lead the protest while carrying their banner. 20130308 Photo by Steve McCrank / Staff Photographer read more

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Move Over Shell, ConocoPhillips Looking to Drill in the Chukchi Sea in 2014

“We’re not going to bring up a 30-year-old piece of equipment,” said Mike Faust, ConocoPhillips’ Chukchi program manager, during the meeting in Anchorage.

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By On

ConocoPhillips on Thursday revealed that it is moving ahead with plans to drill up to two exploratory wells in Alaska’s arctic waters in 2014 where rival Royal Dutch Shell suffered a number of setbacks this past year.

ConocoPhillips proposed exploratory drilling program, presented during NOAA’s annual Arctic Open Water Meeting, will focus on the “Devils Paw” prospect located 80 miles offshore in the shallow waters of Chukchi Sea, Alaska. The company says it intends to drill one or two exploration wells during the open water season of 2014 in water depths of approximately 140 feet. read more

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Selection of links to Shell related articles 8 March 2013

Selection of links to Shell related articles kindly supplied by a regular contributor

Shell Oil out: Native tribe still sees threat to “Sacred Headwaters”: Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog)-The Tahltan Nation, in remote northwest British Columbia, blocked roads and staged sit-ins to keep Shell Oil from developing a huge coal bed …

Photos: Shell’s drillship heads to Asia: Alaska Dispatch-Mar 7, 2013: The Noble Discoverer, the massive drillship that is an integral part of Royal Dutch Shell’s Arctic oil drilling ambitions, is getting a lift to Asia.

Shell to construct liquefaction units for LNG transport corridors in US …: Energy Business Review-Shell and its affiliates plan to build two small-scale liquefaction units, which will … gas (LNG) fuel to marine and heavy-duty on-road customers in North America. … Shell Oil president Marvin Odum said that natural gas is an .. read more

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Cyber attacks on royaldutchshellplc.com

Screen Shot 2013-01-23 at 14.00.51By John Donovan: We had enjoyed a brief respite from the constant cyber attacks on this website, but the main disruptive activity restarted earlier this week. Michiel Brandjes, the Company Secretary & General Counsel Corporate of Royal Dutch Shell Plc had previously issued a denial of any involvement by Shell. However, for a number of reasons, including certain comments submitted for publication on our Shell Blog containing implied threats and reference to hacking, I believe Shell is behind what is going on. Such underhand operations designed partly for intimidation purposes, only make us more determined. We should not be too surprised if Shell is responsible, because for over a decade the company has engaged in a range of hostile covert activity against us. We have the evidence in the form of authentic Shell internal and external communications. It is possible that some of our recent postings relating to Peter Voser, Simon Henry, Matthias Bichsel, and the man in the Shell Hat, may not have been well received.  read more

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Shell Sees Major Advance in China Shale Output Within Two Years

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BY SIMON HALL

SINGAPORE—Royal Dutch Shell said it may be less than two years away from a major advance in shale gas production in China, bringing the country closer to being the first outside of North America to cash in on technology that has transformed the U.S. energy industry.

Unlocking the gas trapped inside China’s shale rock reserves, the world’s biggest, would provide much needed energy supplies to the energy-hungry economy and help cut down on expensive imports of gas. It would also provide a windfall for Western energy giants that provide the complex hydraulic fracturing technology. read more

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Shell set to abandon Saudi Empty Quarter gas search- sources

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Thu Mar 7, 2013 4:40am EST

* High costs, low returns of Empty Quarter gas search

* Development terms the problem-sources

* Shell says talks with Saudi government continue

By Reem Shamseddine and Amena Bakr

KHOBAR/DUBAI, March 7 (Reuters) – Royal Dutch Shell is set to pull out soon from a joint venture that has searched for gas in Saudi Arabia’s Empty Quarter for years, due to disagreements with the government over terms, four industry sources familiar with the matter said.

The gas search has been a top priority for Saudi Arabia as it struggles to keep pace with rapidly rising domestic demand for energy, but the shale revolution has opened up more lucrative opportunities for energy companies elsewhere. read more

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Shell, BASF To Pay Massive Compensation for Poisoning over 1,000 Brazilian Workers

Screen Shot 2013-03-06 at 15.44.22By John Donovan: We have been please to assist at their request an association representing former workers at a Shell/Basf Chemicals factory in Brazil. The factory was built in 1977 by Shell. Dozens of former employees of the plant have been diagnosed with prostate, thyroid and other types of cancer, circulatory, liver and intestinal illnesses, as well as infertility and sexual impotence. A settlement has just been announced, as per Associated Press story printed below.

WEDNESDAY 6 March 2013

SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil’s top labor court says Shell Brasil SA and BASF SA have reached a compensation agreement with former workers allegedly contaminated at a pesticide plant in the state of Sao Paulo.

The court says Tuesday on its website the companies agreed to a pay compensation of close to 180,000 reals ($90,000) to each of the 1,068 workers who were allegedly contaminated.

They also agreed to provide workers with lifelong health plans valued at 200 million reals ($100 million). read more

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UN special rapporteur calls for full investigation of Corrib human rights issues

The report refers to evidence of “a pattern of intimidation, harassment, surveillance and criminalisation” of those peacefully opposing the gas project.

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UNITED NATIONS SPECIAL Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders, Margaret Sekaggya, has called on the Irish government to investigate all allegations and reports of intimidation, harassment and surveillance in the context of the Corrib Gas dispute.

Sekaggay visited Ireland in November last year and met with a delegation, which included seven members of Shell to Sea, to discuss challenges faced by those protesting the project in Mayo. At the time she said she was “concerned” about the situation faced by activists. read more

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UN Special Rapporteur calls for full investigation of Corrib Human Rights issues

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In a report submitted to the UN Human Right Council last Monday (4th March), the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders Margaret Sekaggya, called on the Irish Government to “Investigate all allegation and reports of intimidation, harassment and surveillance in the context of the Corrib Gas dispute in a prompt and impartial manner”. [1]

Mrs Margaret Sekaggya visited Ireland last November to assess the situation for Human Rights Defenders in Ireland. On the 21st of November she met with a delegation from Shell to Sea.[2] read more

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Beware of a man in a Shell Hat

Screen Shot 2013-03-05 at 15.42.20By John Donovan: We have published below the content of an email sent on 1 March 2013 to Shell CEO Peter Voser by a former Shell supplier in Ireland: The OSSL Company. Basically it is alleged that Shell involved the company in corruption, facilitating bribes given to third parties on Shell’s behalf, including the Irish police. This activity all related to the highly controversial Corrib Gas Project in Ireland, dogged by allegations of corruption, threats, imprisonment of protestors, and misconduct by Shell from the outset. OSSL claims that invoices were falsified at the instruction of Shell as part of the conspiracy. The email message has a typically Irish flavour…

CONTENT OF THE OSSL EMAIL TO PETER VOSER

A man in a SHELL HAT asks for a car engine …we ask why us?

The man in the SHELL HAT explains its for him …we ask who will pay and explain we don’t sell car engines …

The man in the SHELL HAT say he will pay and as a favour to him can we locate it and buy it

We think he’s wearing a SHELL HAT he must be a man of integrity or SHELL would not give him that hat.

We tell the man in the SHELL HAT your engine is here  …fine he says i will come and see you…

He arrives in our premises in person in the HAT ….now about that engine it’s not actually for me… now even although you thought it was because I told you it was read more

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Shell to build LNG plants in U.S., Canada for transport fuel

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(Reuters) – Royal Dutch Shell said it would build two small-scale gas liquefaction units in Louisiana and Ontario as part of an investment plan to unlock value in the use of liquefied natural gas as a transport fuel.”These two units will form the basis of two new LNG transport corridors in the Great Lakes and Gulf Coast regions,” Shell said in a statement on Tuesday.

Shell said it was also working to use natural gas as a fuel in its own operations, which follows an investment decision in 2011 on a similar corridor in Alberta, Canada.

Shell, which has bet the most heavily of all the top oil firms on a future for cleaner-burning natural gas, said it is using its expertise to make LNG a viable fuel option for the commercial market.

In the Gulf Coast corridor, Shell plans to install the liquefaction unit at its Geismar Chemicals facility to supply LNG along the Mississippi river and intra-coastal waterway and to exploration areas offshore Gulf of Mexico and onshore Texas and Louisiana. read more

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Nigerian Oil Thieves Return to Decimate Output

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Nigeria’s oil thieves are back in action, sabotaging pipelines to rob Africa’s biggest crude producer of more than a 10th of its daily production.

In the first two months of this year alone, Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSA) and other oil companies have declared three force majeures, a legal clause that allows them to miss contracted deliveries due to circumstances beyond their control. The thefts threaten to outpace the worst year, 2009, at the height of the insurgency by militants in the Niger River Delta. read more

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Shell weighs security in Nigeria

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Published: March. 4, 2013

ABUJA, Nigeria, March 4 (UPI) — Supermajor Shell said it was calling on the Nigerian government to do more to help ensure its operations are safe from oil bandits.

Shell last year declared force majeure on Bonny Light crude, the Nigerian blend, because of “incessant crude theft and illegal bunkering” on a pipeline the Nembe Creek trunk line in southern Nigerian.

Shell Managing Director Mutiu Sunmonu was quoted by The Guardian (Nigeria) as saying his company might shut down some operations there because of ongoing pilfering. The newspaper reports Shell says saboteurs are stealing about 60,000 barrels of crude oil per day from the region. read more

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SPOOKY AFFAIR INVOLVING SHELL AND THE U.S. GOVERNMENT?

Screen Shot 2013-03-04 at 20.44.48Disclaimer: We encourage a diversity of opinion and comment. The opinions/information expressed/provided by “Washington Observer” in this article are not necessarily endorsed or condoned by this website. For legal reasons we have removed the name of a well known U.S. company that was identified in the article. Shell did not take up our invitation to comment on the content of a related article published by us in 2010 (see below).

At that time, following our email correspondence with a high level U.S. intelligence source, the source was authorized by U.S. Dept. of Defense government attorneys to confirm to us that an investigation directed at Shell in the USA had been initiated by the US Department of the Navy, Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS). The whole strange affair may apparently still be rumbling on, perhaps towards a conclusion that will make any Shell return to the Arctic even less likely.
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Shell to Build LNG Fuel Plants in U.S., Canada

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By Tom Fowler: March 5, 2013

Royal Dutch Shell PLC will build plants in Louisiana and Canada to produce liquefied natural gas as a fuel for heavy trucks and large ships, the company said Tuesday.

The LNG terminals are among the latest efforts by energy companies to create greater demand for what is now a glut of natural gas in North America.

Shell, one of the largest gas producers in the U.S., will build the facilities in Geismar, Louisiana, along the Mississippi River south of Baton Rouge, and in Sarnia, Ontario, on the southern shore of Lake Huron just east of Michigan. read more

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Shell: Ormen Lange gas output reduced due to reduced power at Onshore gas plant

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BY KJETIL MALKENES HOVLAND

OSLO — Royal Dutch Shell said that gas flows from the giant Ormen Lange field offshore Norway have been reduced following a grid failure affecting an onshore gas processing plant.

Gas flows from the Nyhamna gas processing terminal, whic processes gas from the Ormen Lange field mainly for export to the U.K., was reduced by 53 MMcm, according to Gassco. Output is expected to be reduced by 37 MMcm, it said.

The terminal on Norway’s west coast has a maximum production capacity of about 70 MMcmpd, said a Shell spokeswoman. The maximum production at Ormen Lange is equal to about 20% of the U.K.’s natural gas consumption, read more

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S&P Warns of Credit Downgrade for BP, Shell, Others

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March 4, 2013

Oil and gas companies including BP and Shell will likely see declines in cash flows and credit downgrades if world leaders implement policies to limit GHG emissions, according to a study by Carbon Tracker and Standard & Poor’s.

What A Carbon-Constrained Future Could Mean For Oil Companies’ Creditworthiness looks at how BP and Shell, along with three Canadian companies that focus on oil sands projects — Canadian Oil Sands, Canadian Natural Resources, and Cenovus Energy — would be affected by the International Energy Agency’s 450 scenario. This scenario aims to limit the global increase in temperature to 2 degrees Celsius by limiting GHG emissions to 450 parts per million (ppm) of CO2, resulting in a 35 percent reduction in oil use for transport by 2030, and 49 percent by 2035. read more

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Selection of links to Shell related articles: 4 March 2013

Selection of links to Shell related articles kindly supplied by a regular contributor

Editorial: Cold Arctic logic shelves Shell’s drilling plan: The Seattle Times-MOTHER Nature made the point the Obama administration chose to ignore two years ago as it was processing an application by Shell Oil to ...

European Oil Majors Are Eyeing India’s Natural Gas Sector: Seeking Alpha-The Anglo-Dutch oil major Royal Dutch Shell (RDS.A), has decided to invest around $1 billion to develop a floating liquefied natural gas …

Shell Forecasts Near-Zero Global Emissions by 2100: Environmental Leader-Shell Forecasts Near-Zero Global Emissions by 2100 … to near- zero by 2100, under two predictive scenarios released by oil company Shell. read more

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Noble Discoverer Loaded Onto Transport Ship

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March 2, 2013 11:06 pm

Guided by powerful tugs, Shell Oil’s drilling rig, the Noble Discoverer, began its slow but steady journey from the Alaska Railroad Dock to the waiting semi-submerged transport ship around 6:30 am on Saturday morning. Calm seas helped make this delicate operation much easier.

FULL ARTICLE WITH SEVERAL PHOTOGRAPHS

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Shell CEO Peter Voser should resign over Arctic debacle

Instead of an apology, humility, transparency, and resignations, Shell CEO Peter Voser serves up the usual diet of pr horse shit fed to the public and Shell stakeholders. Horse meat is at least digestible.

By John Donovan

Screen Shot 2013-03-03 at 10.51.42Tesco is to be congratulated for treating its customers like adults over the horse meat scandal. The supermarket chain immediately apologised and took action to restore trust in the company by its customers and investors. No spin. Just the plain truth. Embarrassing, but honest and reassuring. 

Shell has taken exactly the opposite approach over the meltdown of its Arctic foray. I refer to the groundings, fire, explosion and related safety and environmental violations that befell and eventually torpedoed its Arctic fleet of refurbished rust-buckets. read more

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Shell seers who failed to predict Arctic debacle offer latest scenarios

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Shell seers who failed to predict the reserves scandal and Shell’s Arctic meltdown, now offer their latest peek into the future. Past performance does not inspire confidence in their prophecies… The famed corporate crystal ball never revealed a world in which its so-called No.1 Enemy would be operating globally under the Royal Dutch Shell Plc top level domain name, dealing on Shell’s behalf with job applications, business proposals, complaints, invitations to speak at conferences, and even terrorist threats. This was a scenario apparently deemed too far beyond the realms of possibility to be contemplated, but it is nonetheless the incredible reality and has been for getting on to a decade. How on earth did such a supposedly far-sighted management end up in such a humiliating situation?

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With the world’s population headed toward 9 billion at mid-century and millions of people climbing out of poverty, global energy demand could increase by as much as 80% by 2050. That’s according to Shell’s latest , which look at trends in the economy, politics and energy in considering developments over the next half a century.

What might lie ahead 50 years from now… or even in 2100? We consider two possible scenarios of the future, taking a number of pressing global trends and issues and using them as “lenses” through which to view the world.

The scenarios provide a detailed analysis of current trends and their likely trajectory into the future. They dive into the implications for the pace of global economic development, the types of energy we use to power our lives and the growth in greenhouse gas emissions. read more

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Shell Buckets, Superbuckets and Rustbuckets

Screen Shot 2013-01-11 at 20.09.51How come that nobody dared say what everyone in the world saw (thanks to the Donovans) that you simply cannot go to this most sensitive area in the world with a couple of old rustbuckets? The timing of the most recent Shell reorganisation to buckets and superbuckets was very opportune. I wonder if there now exists also a rustbucket? Not many other outfits (apart from the political world) would allow such incompetence without consequence.

From ‘an old EP hand’

Shell has suspended Alaska drilling operations. We knew that project management had gone down the drain over the years (by being over budget by a factor 2-6, delays of many years and under-performance) when political correctness and nice promises became more important than honesty and good delivery. Now it is also clear that technical competence has gone or at least is silenced and stopped from making itself heard.
 
Processes (the love baby of bearded Brinded) replaced skills. Technical know-how which had been carefully built up over many years was removed as less important and ‘the contractor would do it all’. I bet that all the boxes for the various VARs (Value Assurance Reviews) and other process controls were ticked off as necessary. No-one apparently dared mention ‘there is a moose on the table’. How similar to the reserves crisis of 9 years ago.
 
We have seen the disasters of these policies (all carefully hidden behind the correct words spoken by eloquent ‘leaders’, usually of British and American background, yes I am a Dutchman). The last ‘real’ drilling man in charge of Shell worldwide drilling (good old Coen) had his hand on the brake of all 125 rigs and nothing escaped his attention. He had a jobgroup of A. There simply is no way he would have allowed the crap in Alaska we have seen. And yes, we used to have more blow-outs than nowadays and safety standards have gone up as have the costs per foot drilled. But basic mistakes like the Alaska stuff would not have happened. This was the era where one could speak out as a professional and not be afraid to be fired.
 
I have lost count but in order to attract the right bullshitters in drilling, substantial promotions were handed out and now there are presumably at least 5-6 guys at the level of jg-B. About time to put a head honcho to manage this little group at an even more elevated position? It reeks of jobs for the boys. How come that nobody dared say what everyone in the world saw (thanks to the Donovans) that you simply cannot go to this most sensitive area in the world with a couple of old rustbuckets? The timing of the most recent Shell reorganisation to buckets and superbuckets was very opportune. I wonder if there now exists also a rustbucket?
 
Not many other outfits (apart from the political world) would allow such incompetence without consequence. It looks as if Shell has turned into a political party. The problem is that they operate in a highly technological world that politicians do not understand. read more

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Shell’s Arctic Failure

Screen Shot 2013-01-18 at 10.08.58Shell, a company with one of the worst human rights and environmental records in history, has cancelled its plans to drill this summer in the Alaskan Arctic. A fitting end to a year-long tragicomedy of errors. A year that began with boasting and bravado and ended in a series of accidents and outright safety violations that proved Shell is far from Arctic ready.

Shell’s Arctic Failure Is Obama’s Chance to Act

Kumi NaidooExecutive Director, Greenpeace International: Posted 28 February 2013

An unexpected thing happened last night: One of the biggest oil companies in the world — Shell — made a big decision acknowledging that the oil industry cannot operate safely in the Arctic. A decision that means one year of relief for the people and wildlife of the Arctic.

Shell, a company with one of the worst human rights and environmental records in history, has cancelled its plans to drill this summer in the Alaskan Arctic. A fitting end to a year-long tragicomedy of errors. A year that began with boasting and bravado and ended in a series of accidents and outright safety violations that proved Shell is far from Arctic ready. The bottom line is that no one is or will ever be ready, given the risks involved. read more

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