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August, 2015:

Shell denies greasing ANC palms

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Screen Shot 2015-07-31 at 19.22.09By Tony Carnie: 20 August 2015

Durban – Oil giant Shell has denied suggestions that it exercises “improper influence” over government officials or makes financial payments to the ANC to pave the way for shale gas fracking.

The company’s local subsidiary, Shell South Africa, was responding on Wednesday to fears raised by local anti-fracking groups in a letter to the Minister of Mineral Resources, Ngoako Ramatlhodi.

The Treasure of the Karoo Action group and AfriForum wrote to Ramatlhodi this week voicing concern that he would be caught in a conflict of interest by adjudicating any application from Shell for a petroleum exploration licence or right. read more

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Oil Companies Sit on Hands at Auction for Leases

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By CLIFFORD KRAUSSAUG. 20, 2015 PAGE B1 IN NEW YORK EDITION

Screen Shot 2015-08-04 at 22.49.59HOUSTON — With oil prices collapsing and companies in retrenchment, a federal auction in the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday attracted the lowest interest from producers since 1986.

It was the clearest sign yet that the fortunes of oil companies are skidding so fast that they now need to cut back on plans for production well into the future.

The auction, for drilling leases, attracted a scant $22.7 million in sales from five companies, but energy analysts said that came as no surprise on a day when the American oil benchmark price plummeted by more than 4 percent. For the first time since the recession, it is approaching the symbolic $40-a-barrel level. Last summer, it was above $100 a barrel.

A glut on American and world markets is to blame for the depressed prices, but the unusually large daily decline occurred after the Energy Department, in a report, lowered its oil price projections and showed a considerable increase in inventories. read more

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Wellcome Trust loses millions as its fossil fuel investments plunge in value

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Screen Shot 2015-08-20 at 09.03.27The Wellcome Trust’s investments in fossil fuel companies have lost an estimated £175m in the last year, due to sharp falls in share prices. Research by the Guardian shows the medical charity has sold off two-thirds of its holding in Shell…

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Shell layoffs hit New Orleans as oil prices dive

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Screen Shot 2015-08-04 at 22.49.59By Jennifer Larino, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune: 19 August 2015

Layoffs are starting to hit New Orleans as Royal Dutch Shell moves forward with plans to eliminate 6,500 jobs worldwide. The cuts come as Shell seeks to cut costs amid lower oil and gas prices.

Shell spokeswoman Kimberly Windon confirmed in an email the company has started to cut jobs at its New Orleans and Houston offices, though it is not providing a “specific breakdown of workforce numbers.”

About 2,300 Shell employees and contractors are at One Shell Square on Poydras Street, and the majority support Shell’s drilling and exploration operations in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico. Windon said the deepwater segment “continues to be an important part of the Shell global portfolio.” read more

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Hillary Clinton scuppers Shell’s plan to drill for oil in the Arctic

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Screen Shot 2015-08-13 at 11.35.25By CITY & FINANCE REPORTER FOR THE DAILY MAIL

PUBLISHED: 19 August 2015

Royal Dutch Shell’s Arctic ambitions have sparked a political row in the US after presidential candidate Hillary Clinton opposed its plans.

President Obama’s administration gave Shell the final green light to drill for oil and gas in the Arctic this week – which will see it resume drilling in the area for the first time since 2012 when it suffered a series of setbacks and pulled out. 

Clinton said drilling in the area is ‘not worth the risk’. read more

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GREENPEACE CALLS FOR SHELL BOYCOTT AFTER ALASKA DRILLING GO-AHEAD

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by Janene Van Jaarsveldt: 18 August 2015

Greenpeace has launched a boycotting action against Shell in response to the oil company receiving the final go-ahead from the American government for drilling in Alaska, AD reports.

On Monday the United States government gave Shell final permission to start test drilling in Alaska, provided that the company has the necessary equipment to be able to immediately close any possible oil spills.

In response Greenpeace is calling on consumers to take action by boycotting Shell for 40 days. The environmental organization is asking that consumers not refuel at Shell stations between August 19th and September 27th. read more

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Green fury after Shell is given go-ahead for Arctic drilling

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Green fury after Shell is given go-ahead for Arctic drilling

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DAVID USBORNE , TOM BAWDEN: THE INDEPENDENT: Wednesday 19 August 2015

Shell has been granted final permission by the US regulatory authorities to begin exploratory drilling for oil and gas beneath the Arctic seabed. The decision by the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) to allow the multinational to drill off the Alaskan coast prompted environmentalists to accuse President Barack Obama of “double-speak” over his calls to replace fossil fuels with renewable energy sources. read more

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Alaska oil prospecting project splits Democrats

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Screen Shot 2015-08-13 at 11.35.25Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has contradicted fellow Democrat President Barack Obama by rejecting a Shell oil prospecting project off Alaska. Obama’s administration has given Shell approval to resume drilling.

18 August 2015

Clinton put herself at odds with Obama’s administration late on Tuesday by describing the Arctic as a “unique treasure” and “not worth the risk of drilling” because of multiple environmental risks.

Obama’s administration on Monday gave Royal Dutch Shell final approval to resume drilling into an oil-bearing rock, 2,400 meters (8,000 feet) below the ocean floor off northern Alaska.

Shell’s original leases were obtained from the administration of the previous Republican president, George W. Bush. read more

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Hillary Clinton Says Arctic Drilling ‘Not Worth the Risk’

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“The Arctic is a unique treasure,” Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton tweeted. “Given what we know, it’s not worth the risk of drilling.” MARIO ANZUONI/REUTERS

(Reuters) – Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on Tuesday staked out her opposition to Arctic oil exploration, a day after the Obama administration gave Royal Dutch Shell final approval to drill off Alaska.

“The Arctic is a unique treasure,” Clinton said in a Twitter post. “Given what we know, it’s not worth the risk of drilling.”

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On Monday, the Obama administration gave Shell final approval to resume drilling into the oil zone off northern Alaska for the first time since 2012. read more

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Shell faces huge risks and potential rewards with an Arctic adventure

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Shell has been given the green light to drill in the Arctic but as well as the opportunity for huge rewards, the inhospitable region brings huge risks

By Ben Marlow: 18 Aug 2015

In James Cameron’s epic science fiction film Avatar, humans travel to the moon Pandora in search of a highly valuable mineral that will help save the Earth from an energy crisis, and ultimately from extinction.

To extract the mineral, the explorers must destroy the lush tropical rainforest that envelopes Pandora, and ultimately the homes of the native Na’vi people.

It’s a sacrifice Parker Selfridge, the greedy head of The Resources Development Administration is willing to make, but ultimately the humans are defeated and sent packing. The name of the mineral they fail to get their hands on? Unobtainium. read more

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Shell shares slump as it gets green light for Arctic drilling

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Screen Shot 2015-08-13 at 11.35.25TOM BAWDEN: THE INDEPENDENT: Tuesday 18 August 2015

Shell’s shares slumped today after the US government finally gave it the green light to drill for oil and gas in the Arctic Ocean.

The FTSE 100 oil giant will be able to explore the ocean floor for hydrocarbons for the first time since 2012, when a series of mishaps including the grounding of a drilling rig off the coast of Alaska, ended a costly Arctic programme that has cost $7bn over the past decade and has yet to find a drop of oil.

But despite receiving final clearance by the Obama administration to finally resume drilling, investors were unimpressed, sending the group’s shares down by 14.50p, or 0.81%, to 1,778.50p. read more

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SHELL und DEUTSCHLAND (SHELL AND GERMANY)

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Screen Shot 2015-08-17 at 08.38.13English translation below of the text shown on the centre section of the above German road map published by Shell in Nazi Germany after Hitler came to power in January 1933. Shell boasted about its contribution to the German economy stretching back to 1924. We assume the map provided directions to the Polish border.

In the years approaching WW2, the ardent Nazi, Sir Henri Deterding, was in control at Shell along with likeminded Group Managing Directors (two of whom subsequently became Director Generals of Shell), all willing to get into bed with the Nazis. read more

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Shell gets final nod to drill in Arctic Ocean

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Seattle Times news services

WASHINGTON — The federal government Monday gave Shell the final permit it needs to drill for oil in the Arctic Ocean off Alaska’s northwest coast for the first time in more than two decades.

President Obama is ending restrictions on Shell’s drilling in the Arctic Ocean — even as he prepares a trip to Alaska to highlight the dangers of climate change.

The Interior Department, satisfied that Shell can handle any emergencies, is approving the oil company’s request to drill deep enough to hit oil in the waters off the northwest coast of Alaska. Shell is betting it will find a giant pool. read more

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Brazil regulator tells Shell, partners to develop two oilfields as one

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Screen Shot 2015-07-31 at 19.22.09RIO DE JANEIRO | BY MARTA NOGUEIRA: 18 Aug 2015

Brazil’s National Petroleum Agency (ANP) ruled that Royal Dutch Shell (RDSa.L) and its Qatari and Indian partners need to treat oil and gas fields in the Parque das Conchas area as a single deposit, Shell said, a move that could increase taxes on output.

Shell owns 50 percent of Parque das Conchas, its main Brazilian asset. Qatar’s state oil company Qatar Petroleum [QATPE.UL] owns 23 percent and India’s ONGC (ONGC.NS) owns 27 percent. read more

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Royal Dutch Shell in framework LNG deal with private Chinese firm

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BEIJING: Royal Dutch Shell has entered a framework deal with a Chinese energy firm to jointly purchase and distribute liquefied natural gas, Shell said on Tuesday, a rare cooperation between a global energy company and a local private player.

Shell signed the non-binding framework agreement with Guanghui Energy Co Ltd, which is building a gas receiving terminal in Qidong of Jiangsu province with a designed annual handling capacity of around 600,000 tonnes in its first phase. read more

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Shell gets final permit for Arctic oil drilling

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Oil and gas giant Shell has been granted the final permit it needs to begin drilling below the ocean floor for oil in the Arctic.

Shell began work last month, but was allowed to drill just the top sections of two wells, off the coast of Alaska.

Environmental campaigners are against the drilling which they say could harm the region.

But the US government said it was monitoring Shell’s work “around the clock” to ensure the “utmost safety”.

“Activities conducted offshore Alaska are being held to the highest safety, environmental protection, and emergency response standards,” added Brian Salerno, director of The Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE), which issued the final permit. read more

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U.S. gives Shell final nod to drill for oil in Arctic

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By Timothy Gardner

Aug 17 (Reuters) – The Obama administration granted Royal Dutch Shell final clearance on Monday to resume drilling for oil and gas in the environmentally fragile Arctic Ocean for the first time since 2012, a move green groups vowed to fight.

The U.S. Department of the Interior permit allows Shell to drill in the oil-rich Chukchi Sea off the northwest coast of Alaska. Shell interrupted its drilling program in the region in 2012 after suffering a series of mishaps, including losing control of an enormous rig, from which the Coast Guard had to rescue 18 workers. read more

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Shell Returns to Swiss Bond Market With Increased Debt Offering

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(Bloomberg) — Royal Dutch Shell Plc sold bonds in the Swiss currency for the first time since 2006, increasing the offer to more than 1.3 billion francs ($1.3 billion) on strong demand.

The oil giant issued 800 million francs of notes due in August 2023 and 525 million francs of August 2028 bonds, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. The debt was sold to yield 29 basis points and 40 basis points more than benchmark rates, respectively, the data show. The company originally planned to sell 900 million francs of debt, according to a person familiar with the deal who asked not to be identified because they aren’t authorized to speak publicly. read more

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Feds allow Shell to drill for oil in Arctic Ocean off Alaska for first time in 20-plus years

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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The federal government has given Royal Dutch Shell the final permit it needs to drill for oil in the Arctic Ocean off Alaska’s northwest coast for the first time in more than two decades.

The Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement said Monday that exploratory drilling can go ahead after the oil giant brought in a required piece of equipment to stop a possible well blowout in the Chukchi (chuk-CHEE’) Sea.

The agency in July gave Shell permission to drill only the top sections of two wells because key safety equipment hadn’t arrived. read more

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How Chevron, Exxon and Shell Will Be Impacted By Australian Tax Legislation

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By: MICHEAL KAUFMAN: Aug 17, 2015

In the past, Chevron Corporation (NYSE:CVX), Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE:XOM) and Royal Dutch Shell plc. (ADR) (NYSE:RDS.A) have managed to charge high interest rates from their Australian subsidiaries for the funding of their $54 billion Gorgon project. The high interest payments allowed the oil majors to enjoy massive tax-free profits. However, the Australian Senate is now working on ways to reform the corporate structure and prevent the massive flight of capital from Australia to other countries. read more

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Shell’s $7bn Arctic folly is at odds with global action

WWF-UK LETTER PUBLISHED BY THE FINANCIAL TIMES

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August 16, 2015

Sir, We are profoundly alarmed at Shell commencing drilling into oil-bearing rock in the Chukchi Sea off Alaska. Drilling in this fragile habitat is riddled with risks for local communities and for the environment, including species that depend on the sea ice, such as polar bears and bowhead whales. The reckless pursuit of hydrocarbons is also incompatible with tackling climate change.

There is no reliable technology for the effective containment, recovery or clean-up of oil spilt in ice-infested waters. Shell has not published the results of the testing of its safety capping stack and containment dome, undertaken after its failed Alaska operations in 2012. Therefore the public cannot be sure that the environment would be protected in the event of a blowout. Meanwhile, at Hanna Shoal, near the drill sites, thousands of walrus haul out on to sea ice — a reminder of the environmental stakes for the Arctic. read more

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17 PAGE CONFIDENTIAL LETTER FROM SHELL LAWYERS TO US SECURITIES & EXCHANGE COMMISSION REGARDING TAKEOVER OF BG GROUP

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FIRST PAGE

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ALL 17 PAGES PDF

REPLY FROM SEC

Securities Exchange Act of 1934
Sections 12(b) and 12(g)

Investment Company Act of 1940
Section 7

August 7, 2015

Response of the Office of International Corporate Finance
Division of Corporation Finance

Response of the Office of Chief Counsel
Division of Investment Management

Re: Royal Dutch Shell plc
Incoming letter dated August 7, 2015

The views of the Division of Corporation Finance and the Division of Investment Management are set forth below. Capitalized terms have the same meanings defined in your letter.

Based on the facts and representations contained in your letter and without necessarily agreeing with your analysis, the Division of Corporation Finance will not recommend enforcement action to the Commission if the interests of Class B Shareholders in the Trust and Target Dividend Access Share are not separately registered under Section 12(b) or Section 12(g) of the Exchange Act, provided that RDS discloses in its annual report on Form 20-F the information regarding the Trust and Target Dividend Access Share as outlined in your letter. read more

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Arctic drilling not consistent with Obama climate change fight, report says

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Arctic drilling not consistent with Obama climate change fight, report says

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  • The Obama administration’s crusade against climate change is “inconsistent” with allowing Royal Dutch Shell (RDS.A, RDS.B) to drilling for oil in the Arctic Ocean, environmentalists warn in a new report.
  • Pres. Obama has said he will consider climate change implications in deciding whether to permit the Keystone XL pipeline that would help ferry Canadian oil sands crude to U.S. refineries, and Greenpeace and Oil Change International argue the same climate test should be applied to other fossil fuel projects such as Arctic drilling.
  • Energy demand models stressing “multiple sources of energy” are flawed too, according to the report, which argues that the Energy Information Administration long-term outlook depicts a scenario that would boost temperatures by at least five degrees celsius.
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    Coast Guard Shifts Vessel from Fighting Cocaine Smuggling to Keeping Watch on Arctic Oil Drilling

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    Screen Shot 2015-08-13 at 11.35.25Noel Brinkerhoff, Steve Straehley: Friday, August 14, 2015

    The Obama’s administration decision to allow Royal Dutch Shell to conduct oil drilling in the Arctic Ocean has forced the U.S. Coast Guard to divert ships to the region, including one that had been deployed to catch drug smugglers in the Caribbean.

    To protect both the environment and Shell’s drilling crews working in the dangerous Chukchi Sea, the Coast Guard has had to deploy five ships to the Arctic, according to Reuters. Among the ships is the Waesche, which normally patrols the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico looking for drug traffickers. read more

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    Shell exacerbates housing shortage in Alaska port town

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    Nation’s largest fishing port was already short on housing. With Shell in town, locals say things are getting worse.

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    Screen Shot 2015-08-13 at 11.35.25Ryan Schuessler Aug. 13, 2015

    Not much has changed in Unalaska, Alaska, since Flor Luna had trouble finding a place to live when she moved here 14 years ago.

    “When I first came here, I put myself on every list [for housing] there was available,” Luna recalled. Nobody ever called her back.

    She wasn’t the first or the last person to struggle to find affordable housing in the town that hosts the country’s largest fishing port. Out of what she called sheer luck, Luna was eventually able to find a place to rent, but not everyone is that lucky. During peak fishing season, Unalaska’s population can sometimes triple, and there still isn’t enough space for everyone who pours into town looking for work. read more

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    Former BP chief exec warns Shell about Arctic drilling

    Former BP chief exec warns Shell about Arctic drilling

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    The former chief executive of BP, who headed the company during a spate of nasty disasters including the biggest ever pipeline spill in the North Slope, warned Shell that drilling in the Arctic could hurt its reputation.

    Former BP CEO Lord Browne told BBC News that he’s never been a supporter of “right-on-the-margin development” and that Arctic drilling is expensive.

    Browne was head of BP in 2006, when the company pipeline spilled more than 200,000 gallons of crude oil in Prudhoe Bay resulting in a fine of $25 million. He was also in charge when a Texas City refinery exploded in 2005 and killed 15 people, and during the propane-market-manipulation case that resulted in civil and criminal penalties and a $303 million settlement. read more

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    Green groups warn Shell boss over ‘reckless’ pursuit of Arctic oil

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    Green groups warn Shell boss over ‘reckless’ pursuit of Arctic oil

    Screen Shot 2015-08-13 at 11.35.25EXCLUSIVE: WWF chief executives write to Ben Van Beurden as Greenpeace and Oil International unveil new report highlighting Arctic drilling risks

    By Jessica Shankleman  |  14 Aug 2015

    Green groups have stepped up pressure on Shell over its plans to drill for oil in the Arctic, with WWF leaders writing directly to the oil giant’s chief executive to express their “profound alarm” at the project.

    In a letter sent on Wednesday and seen by BusinessGreen, David Nussbaum and Johan van de Gronden, chief executives of the UK and Netherlands branches of WWF, warned Shell chief executive Ben Van Beurden Arctic drilling would derail efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. read more

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    Can The Shell Rig Come Back? Examiner Reconsiders City Decision

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    By CAROLYN ADOLPH: 13 August 2015

    Shell’s Polar Pioneer, briefly a resident at the Port of Seattle’s Terminal 5,  is drilling for oil in the Chukchi Sea. The question is whether the rig can return to Seattle this fall — and whether it can stay the winter. 

    The Port of Seattle and Foss Maritime Co. are appealing a city decision to try to stop the rig. A city examiner is hearing arguments about what should happen next.

    In May, the City of Seattle’s planning department threatened fines and a lawsuit when it learned the Polar Pioneer would be taking up space at a cargo terminal. read more

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    A Spineless Shell of a Company: You aren’t fooling anyone

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    Screen Shot 2015-08-13 at 11.35.25By Jean Card: 13 August 2015

    Have you heard? Royal Dutch Shell (that’s Shell oil company to most of us) is going to save the planet. It wants to stop climate change! How? Wait for it. The company is dumping its membership in the American Legislative Exchange Council (a former employer of mine).

    What a relief, n’est-ce pas? I believe the earth’s temperature has already cooled one or two degrees since this highly-consequential decision was announced (on the Friday after a huge news day) last week. read more

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    Shell’s Drilling Plans Expose Just How Unprepared The U.S. Is For A Melting Arctic

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    Screen Shot 2015-06-30 at 21.06.27BY NATASHA GEILING AUG 12, 2015 1:02PM

    As Shell moves forward with its plans to drill in remote Arctic waters, the U.S. Coast Guard is being forced to divert resources — including a national security ship normally used for monitoring drug trafficking — to ensure that the oil and gas company sticks to its safety and environmental requirements.

    “That for me is the opportunity cost,” Admiral Paul Zukunft, commandant of the Coast Guard, told Reuters in an interview last week. “It means you do less somewhere else in order to supplement activity in the Arctic.” read more

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    Shell Oil ditches conservative group that fuels climate change deniers, while drilling for oil in the Arctic

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    August 12, 2015 | By Joel Connelly

    Royal Dutch Shell is severing its ties with the American Legislative Exchange Council, a conservative groups that has worked in states to block President Obama’s Clean Power Plan to curb coal plant emissions.

    Shell has cited ALEC’s stand on climate change as the reason for not renewing its membership, a decision made as its drilling rig the Polar Pioneer begins controversial drilling of exploratory wells in Alaska’s Chukchi Sea.

    The oil giant joins such firms as Microsoft, AOL, Google, Facebook, Yelp, Yahoo, Occidental Petroleum and — lately — the Canadian National Railroad which have quit the Council over its climate stands. read more

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    Shell’s repaired icebreaker arrives at Arctic Ocean drilling site

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    Screen Shot 2015-08-13 at 11.35.25Asaf Shalev: August 12, 2015

    A key emergency response vessel arrived at Royal Dutch Shell’s drill site in the Arctic Ocean Tuesday night, inching forward the oil giant’s plans for digging an exploratory well this summer.

    With arrival of the Fennica, a leased Finnish icebreaker, final federal approval is the only hurdle remaining before Shell can expand its operation off Alaska’s northwest shore and begin drilling into the layer of oil-bearing rock, which lies some 8,000 feet below the ocean floor. read more

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    Greenpeace Protesters Could Each Face $5,000 Fines for Blocking Shell Ship

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    by M. ALEX JOHNSON

    Five Greenpeace protesters who tried to stop a Shell oil ship from reaching Alaska last month could be fined $5,000 apiece for interfering with safe operations, the Coast Guard told NBC News on Wednesday.

    None of the protesters was identified. They have 30 days to either pay the fines or contest the civil citations before a Coast Guard hearing officer.

    The enforcement action comes after 13 people lowered themselves on ropes from the St. Johns Bridge over the Willamette River in Portland, Oregon, on July 29 and 30 to block the icebreaker MSV Fennica from passing on its way to the Alaska coast. read more

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    The New Cold War: The Arctic

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    It could set major oil companies against each other but also superpower against superpower as they scramble to exploit the last untapped giant reserves in a part of the world where territorial boundaries remain unclear. No wonder some fear a new cold war.

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    Can Shell afford Arctic oil?

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    Karl Mathiesen: Wednesday 12 August 2015

    This is the first time the Anglo-Dutch giant’s star-crossed Arctic programme will drill deep enough to hit oil. The company has reportedly spent $7bn (£4.5bn) on getting to this point, including replacing its prize Kulluk rig after it ran aground off Alaska in 2012. For them to gain any of this back, a number of things need to happen.

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    BVB Personal Journey? Was it to a bank or a casino?

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    By John Donovan

    Royal Dutch Shell CEO Ben van Beurden claims that he has been on a personal journey in relation to authorising Shell’s latest Arctic gamble.

    All due credit for the courage needed to take such a huge risk. The same applies to Shell’s takeover of the BG Group and the alliance with the corrupt and murderous Putin regime. All could go terribly wrong.

    With regards to economics, the price of oil is an important factor in all three ventures. Shell has now admitted that oil prices are likely to remain low for some time.  read more

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    Shell Arctic drilling ‘risky’ – ex-BP boss Lord Browne

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    By Roger Harrabin: BBC environment analyst: 12 August 2015

    Drilling for oil in the Arctic may harm Shell’s reputation and cost it dear, the former BP boss Lord Browne has said.

    Shell has just started preliminary drilling in Alaska’s Chukchi Sea after several setbacks.

    The firm’s CEO Ben van Beurden said he had gone on a “personal journey” before deciding the risks were containable.

    But Lord Browne urged caution, saying the company’s long-term reputation could be affected.

    Both men have given interviews to the BBC for a Radio 4 documentary series in the autumn – Climate change: Are we feeling lucky? read more

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    Shell Oil accidentally spills hundreds of thousands of pounds of toxic gas in Deer Park

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    Dylan Baddour, Houston Chronicle: Tuesday, August 11, 2015

    On Sunday morning, hundreds of thousands of tons of toxic gas were accidentally released from the Shell Oil facility in Deer Park.

    According to reports from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, 326,166 pounds of butadiene escaped through an open valve on a spherical tank between 10:40 am and 11:35 am.

    Neil Carman, a chemist with the Sierra Club of Texas and a former power plant inspector for the TCEQ, said that butadiene is a known human carcinogen, but that its molecular structure allows it to dissipate quickly in the hot summer air. The chemical is commonly expelled in car exhaust, but Carman said the quantity in the Shell incident was concerning. read more

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    Shell Ready To Drill For Arctic Oil As Delayed Icebreaker Arrives

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    Screen Shot 2015-05-19 at 18.39.24By John Ryan: Tuesday, August 11 2015

    Shell’s wayward icebreaker made it to the company’s Arctic Ocean drilling site Tuesday. The arrival of the Fennica after a month’s delay means the company could get to drill for oil beneath the Chukchi Sea this summer.

    Currently, Shell only has permission to do shallower drilling into non-oil-bearing rocks off Alaska’s northwest coast.

    With the Fennica steaming toward the Arctic, Shell submitted an application to the Interior Department on Thursday for permission to drill into deeper, oil-bearing rocks. read more

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    U.S. Coast Guard sees added burden in Shell’s Arctic quest

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    The U.S. Coast Guard Legend-class national security cutter USCGC Waesch

    Screen Shot 2015-07-31 at 19.22.09In 2012, the last time the company explored in the Arctic, Coast Guard helicopters had to rescue 18 Shell workers from an out-of-control oil rig in stormy seas, one of several mishaps the company suffered that year. The rig ran aground and had to be scrapped. A later Coast Guard report was sharply critical of Shell’s safety preparation and conduct.

    By Timothy Gardner: 11 August 2015

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Coast Guard has been forced to divert resources – including a vessel that fights cocaine trafficking – to the Arctic this summer to ensure that Royal Dutch Shell’s exploratory oil drilling meets its environmental and safety commitments, its top officer said.

    The added Coast Guard presence in the Chukchi Sea off Northern Alaska includes the Waesche, a 418 foot-long (127 m) national security ship, which otherwise would be operating in the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico, fighting drug traffickers. read more

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    Latest On Royal Dutch Shell Arctic Drilling Plan

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    Bidness Etc discusses when Shell can resume drilling in the Arctic and analyses the problems it faces

    By: MICHEAL KAUFMANPublished: Aug 11, 2015

    Royal Dutch Shell plc. (ADR) (NYSE:RDS.A) is ready to begin drilling in the Arctic. The US Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement had previously banned the company from drilling at certain petroleum sites.

    While the company was scheduled to begin drilling on July 30, some equipment used to control a well blowout that was being carried by a safety vessel suffered damage and was sent back for repairs, delaying the project. Shell’s experience in the Arctic has not been that great. Three years ago the company saw one of its rigs come ashore, causing damage to the environment. read more

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    Ann Pickard: the little-known executive leading Shell’s gamble on Arctic oil

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    Screen Shot 2015-08-11 at 18.06.06Pickard is known as one of the oil industry’s toughest political operators with a history of doing whatever it takes to further Shell’s interests – and the Arctic is ‘just too big a prize’ to leave read more

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    Shell ready to begin drilling for oil in the Arctic

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    Karl Mathiesen: Tuesday 11 August 2015

    Shell is set to restart its controversial hunt for Arctic oil, three years after the company’s last ill-fated venture north. A spokeswoman for the company said: “Fennica is in the Chukchi Sea, drilling continues, and we have requested the permit to drill deeper in this exploration well.”

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    BP plc and Royal Dutch Shell Plc Will Have To Survive Without $100 Oil

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    By Harvey Jones – Tuesday, 11 August, 2015

    Low oil prices have sunk share prices at BP (LSE: BP) and Royal Dutch Shell (LSE: RDSB) and there is no sign of immediate respite.

    There was a flicker of hope as Brent crude climbed to nearly $68 a barrel in May, but it has now slid below $50 again, and worse could follow.

    The notion that lower prices would put the skids on supply, especially from US shale rigs, has been discredited. Shale technology is coming on in leaps and bounds, driving constant cost savings for drillers.

    US frackers continue to add an extra million barrels of oil a day to global supply, even before Iran floods the market with its stockpiles. read more

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    Shell asks for approval on deeper Arctic drilling

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    By Jennifer A. DlouhyAugust 10, 2015

    WASHINGTON – Shell is asking federal regulators for permission to drill deeper into potential oil-bearing rock thousands of feet below the Chukchi Sea.

    Although the company has been drilling a well at its Burger Prospect since July 30, Interior Department regulators have limited the company’s work to the top 3,000 feet.

    The restriction stems from regulators’ insistence that Shell have an emergency device called a capping stack nearby and ready to be deployed on top of a damaged well within 24 hours of an incident. But for weeks, that capping stack and the icebreaker used to deploy it have been unavailable while a hole in the hull of that vessel was fixed in a Portland, Ore., shipyard. read more

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    For the sake of the Inupiat, Shell should give up drilling in the Arctic

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    Othniel Art Oomittuk Jr.: August 10, 2015

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    Inupiaq people, who have inhabited the uppermost one-third of the state of Alaska, known as the Arctic, for millennia, are part of a larger circumpolar indigenous Inuit nation. The current population of the Inupiat in Alaska is about 13,500 (source: University of Alaska Fairbanks). Point Hope is the longest continuously inhabited community on the North American continent, the second largest village with a population of 800 inhabitants and the most culturally traditional village on the North Slope of Alaska.  read more

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    Trumpets, pianos and violins. On Shell’s doorstep for an entire month

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    Screen Shot 2015-07-31 at 12.52.57Shell are in the Arctic as we speak. They’re waiting eagerly for the greenlight, then they’ll start drilling deep into the sea floor, risking huge oil spills. That’s why we’re going face to face with the bosses who’ve the power to call it all off – at Shell’s London HQ right now.

    Day after day, whether it’s as they’re going into work in the morning, or when they break for lunch – musicians will play one musical piece, with one message: stay out of the Arctic for good. It’s the longest single protest against Arctic oil drilling that Shell has ever faced.

    Shell are constantly trying to keep their fingers in their ears, so now they’ve reached the Arctic we need to be louder than ever. Together we can amplify the music – every petition signature, every Facebook mention and every tweet will – literally – increase the volume of our Requiem for Arctic Ice. Take a look: https://secure.greenpeace.org.uk/requiem read more

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    Shell Seeks Modified Permit for Arctic Offshore Drilling

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    Royal Dutch Shell PLC has applied to amend its federal permit to allow drilling into oil-bearing rock in the Arctic Ocean off Alaska’s northwest coast.

    Shell last month received permission to begin some drilling in the Chukchi (chuk-CHEE’) Sea but was banned from digging into petroleum zones roughly 8,000 feet below the ocean floor.

    The federal Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement limited the permit then because equipment was not on hand to handle a possible well blowout.

    The equipment is on the Fennica, an icebreaker that suffered hull damage July 3 in the Aleutians Islands. The repaired Fennica left Portland, Oregon, on July 30. read more

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    U.S. sanctions put Gazprom-Shell alliance plans in jeopardy

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    MOSCOW | BY DENIS PINCHUK AND KATYA GOLUBKOVA: Mon 10 August 2015

    Royal Dutch Shell’s (RDSa.L) plans to build a strategic alliance with Russia’s Gazprom (GAZP.MM) could be in jeopardy after the United States added one of Gazprom’s biggest gas fields to its list of Russian sanctions on Friday.

    Shell and Gazprom signed an agreement in June to develop a strategic alliance in the gas sector, ranging from upstream – exploration and production – to sales, including possible asset swaps. read more

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    New head of Nigeria’s state oil company sacks top management

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    By Julia Payne

    Aug 5 (Reuters) – The new head of Nigeria’s state oil firm dismissed senior managers after a government directive, the company said on Wednesday, barely a day after President Muhammadu Buhari appointed him as managing director.

    “All of the executive directors were let go … Buhari wanted a clean slate,” one of the dismissed managers said.

    Buhari appointed a former executive of Exxon Mobil, Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu, to be the new head of NNPC on Tuesday, as part of a crackdown on corruption and mismanagement in Nigeria’s main revenue earner. read more

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