Royal Dutch Shell plc com News and information on Royal Dutch Shell . Plc Skip to Content Home Contact Us Contributors Mission Shell Blog Shell Library BP share price fear over latest setback May 30th , 2010 by John Donovan The Sunday Telegraph BP’s share price is likely to take another battering this week as the company last night admitted it was failing in its latest attempts to stop the Gulf of Mexico oil . leak By Angela Monaghan Sunday 30 MAY 2010 Since the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig on April 20, BP shares have lost a quarter of their value , however with the latest failure of efforts to stem the flow of oil the stock is likely to continue its fall when the London market opens on . Tuesday Speaking last night at a news conference in Louisiana , Doug Suttles , BP’sRoyal Dutch Shell plc com News and information on Royal Dutch Shell . Plc Skip to Content Home Contact Us Contributors Mission Shell Blog Shell Library Rethinking Offshore Drilling May 28th , 2010 by John Donovan Royal Dutch Shell shares have also dropped around 11 since the BP oil spill began . 8221 smartmoney.com Published May 28, 2010 7:20 AM As the BP BP 45.38, 2.97, 7.00 spill in the Gulf of Mexico continues , the Obama administration is reviewing its position on offshore drilling , which could add further selling pressure on BP and Royal Dutch Shell RDS-A RDS-B among other oil companies . On Thursday , the President announced the suspension of most offshore drilling operations in the Gulf and postponed or canceled drilling in Virginia and in the Arctic . Meanwhile , the head of the"There's nothing that's going to get us to drilling in 2010," said Curtis Smith, a Shell spokesman, when asked whether the language of the announcement left room for salvaging Shell's summer operations in Alaska.
So now it is official. What everyone has suspected for the last month, we now know to be true.
The Deepwater Horizon spill is now the largest in US history.
Yesterday President Obama attacked BP over America’s ‘worst oil disaster’, after new estimates put the amount of oil spilt at anything from ...
"There's nothing that's going to get us to drilling in 2010," said Curtis Smith, a Shell spokesman, when asked whether the language of the announcement left room for salvaging Shell's summer operations in Alaska.
One of the ongoing tragedies of the Exxon Valdez oil spill is that thousands of people who worked on the cleanup are sick, have gotten sick, and continue to die from inhaling the lethal cocktail of oil and dispersant.
The tragedy is that, like the oil spill itself, the illnesses and ...Today, its Top Kill or bust. Never have the stakes for BP been higher.
Latest estimates are that the company could face up to $70 billion in penalties and pay-outs for the Gulf oil spill if today’s attempts to stem the flow of oil fail.
Today BP will attempt a “Top Kill” ...
This is now becoming a comedy of tragic proportions.
Last week the EPA ordered BP to find another dispersant after repeated warnings from scientists that its dispersant Corexit was untested on the sea-bed and too toxic.
But BP is just ignoring the government and continuing to use the chemical. So far the ...
Out of sight and out of mind. That is what dispersants do to oil.
Repeatedly on this blog for the last month, we have warned about the dangers of using dispersants, especially at depths where the technique was essentially untested.
Finally we are finding out what the use of disperants has done ...
For a month now people have been demanding that BP comes clean over the amount of oil being spilt in the Gulf of Mexico. For a month BP has resisted.
For a month now, people have been saying that the dispersants being used on the spill are highly toxic and could ...
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“Don’t Worry” - be happy – that is Tony Hayward’s birthday message to his staff.
Hayward has returned home to London to chair a crisis board meeting, trying to give his staff an upbeat message.
Hayward has emailed staff saying that “I know that many of you have ...
Years ago, when the environmental organisation Greenpeace was running a campaign against Ford in the UK, the liberal Guardian newspaper refused to run one of Greenpeace’s anti-Ford adverts.
At the time, Ford was one of the largest advertisers in the Guardian and it threatened to pull all its adverts if the ...
Earlier this month, I blogged how the tar sands lobby was trying to exploit BP’s Gulf of Mexico spill.
Well the pro-tar sands argument has once again been blown out of the water by a report from the social investment network, Ceres.
It argues that the environmental and financial risks of producing ...First it was a question, said more like a whisper. Surely BP will survive the spill?
The concept that such a corporate giant could be felled by one outrageous irresponsible act would have been unthinkable even a few weeks ago. But more and more people are asking could the spill sink ...