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March 11th, 2014:

WHAT CHIEF GLOBAL PETROLEUM ENGINEER IAIN PERCIVAL REALLY THOUGHT ABOUT…

Screen Shot 2013-12-10 at 09.33.03This article has been deleted at the request of Iain Percival.

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Stuart Posted on Mar 11th, 2014 at 22:33

With unreserved apologies if you HAVE gotten his support: I find it very sad that you would decide to publish old documents from Iain, a man whose integrity and dignity you praise. His career concerns, his job applications etc are not something that should be shown around for cheap amusement, and to keep alive your anti-Shell moaning.

Yes this stuff was already in the public domain, but your explanation for publishing essentially says “it was hard to find, so I’ve made it easy for everyone to gawp at it”. read more

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Shell Corrib Gas Project Developments

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Extracts from an article by Mary Carolan published on 11 March 2014 by The Irish Times under the headline: “Judge fast-tracks hearing of Corrib gas challenge”

Screen Shot 2013-10-15 at 15.39.36A High Court judge yesterday granted an application from Shell E&P Ireland to fast- track the hearing of the latest legal action against the Corrib project and fixed a trial date on May 20th. The approach adopted by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to its decision-making relating to licensing the refinery was “nothing short of alarming and extraordinary”, Martin Harrington has claimed. Last October, Mr Harrington, Geesala, Ballina, Co Mayo, won, on consent of the EPA, an order quashing a different revised licence issued by the agency for the Shell gas terminal at Bellanaboy, arising from defects in relation to how the EPA carried out an environmental impact assessment concerning the terminal development. Now he has brought a judicial review challenge to the amendment to the different 2007 licence. read more

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Lawmakers look into diesel smuggling and Shell Oil contract

Extracts from an article published by Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) 11 March 2014

Screen Shot 2014-02-10 at 16.29.29At a regular session on Tuesday… the lawmakers agreed to the request by the State Audit Bureau to get more time to prepare its reports on the sticky issue of the smuggling of diesel fuel and on the contract signed between Shell Oil Co. and Kuwait Oil Co. …the Minister of Oil addressed the lawmakers today regarding the issue of the signed contact with Shell Oil Co, about which a number of lawmakers commented. The minister explained that the State Audit Bureau had thoroughly examined the details of the contract and recorded its reservations on it and had turned the entire issue over to the public prosecutor’s office. read more

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Selection of links to Shell related articles

Screen Shot 2014-02-10 at 16.29.29Selection of links to Shell related articles kindly supplied by a regular contributor

Shell starts commercial US output of new motor oil made from 

Hydrocarbon Processing-21 hours ago Shell refers to its novel motor oil process as PurePlus technology, a patented process of converting natural gas into a clear base oil, which is 

Back in oil shale

Grand Junction Sentinel-10 hours ago Shell, Chevron and American Shale Oil hold R&D leases in Rio Blanco County from the earlier round of leasing — including three leases in 

Big Oil’s Biggest Project in Decades Is About to Start Paying Off

Motley Fool-by Rupert Hargreaves-9 minutes ago Indeed, the project is so large that it is taking a consortium of oil majors to develop it, including ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM ) , Royal Dutch Shell 

Review: Little Thing, Big Thing

Irish Times (blog)-2 hours ago Like O’Kelly’s recent Fionnuala , his concern is the power of the oil industry,  But where Fionnuala made a punching bag out of a Shell Corrib 

Doubling Tar Sands production for Imperial War

CounterPunch-7 hours ago Given the size of soon to be exploited gas and oil reserves within …. to existing operations elsewhere, such as at Shell’s Peace River plant, that 

Energy diplomacy with the Dana Gas chief executive read more

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Cash All Gone

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Extracts from an article by Jim Landers published on 10 March 2014 by The Dallas Morning News under the headline: “Petroleum project costs worldwide benefit Texas prospect”

The cost of developing the world’s largest oil and natural gas fields has reached heights straining the budgets of even the largest oil companies. Royal Dutch Shell, Exxon Mobil Corp., Chevron and Total are all looking to spend less than they did last year on projects that have broken the $50 billion threshold. In Kazakhstan, where several of the biggest oil companies are struggling to bring online the Kashagan oil field beneath the Caspian Sea, project cost estimates have gone as high as $187 billion, according to Offshore Technology.com. Even if the Kashagan field begins production later this year well below that peak cost estimate, it may still take decades before the partners (Exxon Mobil, Shell, Italy’s Eni, Total, KazMunaiGas, IPEX and China National Petroleum Corp.) recover their costs. read more

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Shell on land buying spree near proposed Pennsylvania cracker plant

Extracts from an article by Rachel Morgan published on 10 March 2014 by TimesOnline

Screen Shot 2014-02-10 at 16.29.29POTTER TWP. — Shell Oil Co. has purchased another property near its proposed $2.5 billion petrochemical plant in Potter Township…  According to the Beaver County Property Assessment Records, the 5.49 acre property sold for $1.87 million. On Dec. 18, the oil and gas company paid $1.87 million for a nearly 5.5-acre parcel…. Another landowner near the proposed cracker plant site who spoke on the condition of anonymity said in December they had also been approached by Shell regarding purchase… read more

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Shell: no certainty fracking for Karoo shale gas economically viable

Extracts from an article by Melanie Gosling published on 11 March by Independent Online under the headline: “Fracking revenue still not quantified – Shell”

Screen Shot 2014-03-11 at 14.07.51Cape Town – Shell says there is no certainty that fracking for shale gas in the Karoo will be economically viable. Niall Kramer, Shell’s upstream manager, told delegates at a roundtable discussion on fracking on Monday that only once the oil company had completed exploration work would it be able to assess whether fracking would be economically viable. “Many people think this gas is a done deal. That’s not the case. read more

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Ukraine Crisis Endangers Black Sea Gas Drilling

Extracts from an article

Screen Shot 2014-03-10 at 23.56.16Before violent protests in Kiev overthrew pro-Moscow President Viktor Yanukovych and Russian troops occupied parts of Crimea, a group including Exxon and Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSA) planned to spend $735 million drilling two wells about 50 miles (80 kilometers) from the region’s southwest coast. “Exxon and Shell are now in a legal limbo,” said Chris Weafer, a partner at Macro Advisory in Moscow. They pursued an “exploration deal with a government which may soon no longer have jurisdiction over the region.” read more

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