Dirty Oil
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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 Dirty Oil Oct 31st , 2010 by John Donovan Senators raise concerns on oil sands pipeline By Ayesha Rascoe WASHINGTON Reuters Nearly a dozen U.S . Senators on Friday raised questions about the need for a proposed 7 billion pipeline that they said will bring dirty oil” from Canadian oil sands to U.S . refineries and significantly increase the country’s reliance on fossil . fuels The lawmakers , 10 Democrats and one independent , said the State Department needs to answer several key questions before deciding whether to approve TransCanada’s application to build the 2,000-mile Keystone XL . pipeline Approval of this pipeline will significantly
, 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 Royal Dutch Shell trading with the enemy , Iran Oct 30th , 2010 by John Donovan Contribution from a former employee of Shell Oil USA Both the UK and the US have statutes entitled : Trading with the Enemy Act’ . The UK’s was passed in 1939 and the US’s in 1917. Royal Dutch Shell’s army of attorney’s have obviously found loop holes in these and other statutes that allow Shell to continue to trade with Iran . That trade is of far greater value to Iran than it is to Shell , for it gives Iran the means to continue with their weapons development . programs Perhaps it is time for the UK Parliament and US Congress to plug some of those loop holes
This is a fight that is going to get ugly. Just as earlier in the year, we learnt a new language about top kills, and blow out preventers, anyone who is following the fall-out from the Deepwater Horizon disaster now has to become an expert in the consistency of cement. In the wake of new...Continue reading 'Despite The Bad Cement Job, Still Blame BP'.
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 Operating Blind in Deepwater Oct 29th , 2010 by John Donovan An analysis of the sequence of events on the 20th April which led to the disaster on Deepwater Horizon By Bill Campbell , Retired HSE Group Auditor , Royal Dutch Shell . Operating Blind in Deepwater Only minutes before the blowout on Deepwater Horizon on 20th April everything was reported as being in order . The negative pressure test of the integrity of the well had been good and the displacement of seawater after this test was going . fine But just 25 minutes after this reassuring message was passed to the senior toolpusher , mud started to overflow from the well onto the drill
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 Shell profits flow faster as oil prices rise and new ventures deliver Oct 29th , 2010 by John Donovan Canadian oil sands field starts production and projects are planned in the Gulf of Mexico where BP’s Deepwater disaster has so far cost Shell 115m Tim Webb Friday 29 October 2010 Trucks carry loads of oil-laden sand in Alberta , Canada , where Shell has 13 projects scheduled to come on stream . Photograph : Jeff Mcintosh AP Shell nearly doubled earnings in the last three months thanks to higher oil prices and production as new ventures came on stream . Excluding write-offs made for accounting purposes , its earnings were 4.9bn 3.1bn for the
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 Retired Shell Global Chief Petroleum Engineer Iain Percival speaks out Oct 29th , 2010 by John Donovan Comment by Iain Percival on Bloomberg article Shell Says Repercussions of U.S . Drilling Moratorium Could Last Into 2012 Messers Pals Kennedy of Bloomberg really ought to research a topic before writing about it . Just what is meant by Shell is targeting hard-to-reach rock formations in Australia , the U.S . and China” Coal seams for CBM in Australia are not in the criteria of hard-to-reach . There are undoubtedly challenges in the optimal exploitation of CBM but the technology techniques are hardly new or hard-to-apply” . In any case the
Sometimes the best laid plans go awry. Oil giant Chevron’s multi-million ad campaign, entitled “We agree” has back-fired badly. What’s worse it has given its critics a real opportunity to spoof the company’s highly misleading adverts.. And boy are they having fun and games. The the spoof campaign is beginning to go viral. Ten days...Continue reading 'Chevron Must Think We Are Stupid'.
About Home BizKnowledge Watch IESE Library Blog Oct 28 2010 0 Managing Global Supply and Risk : Best Practices , Concepts , and Strategies by Robert J . Trent , Llewellyn R . Roberts . ISBN : 9781604270143 Synopsis from the Publisher Managing Global Supply and Risk blends three distinct but interrelated topics : International purchasing , global supply management , and global risk management . It covers every aspect of supply management and explains in detail what it takes to pursue it successfully at the global . level Key Features The book presents the characteristics of a world-class global supply organization , the factors critical for global success , and detailed cases demonstrating how leading companies are gaining a competitive advantage from their global efforts . It also provides
About Home BizKnowledge Watch IESE Library Blog Oct 28 2010 0 40 Under 40 Most Influential People In Business’ CC jdlasica Flickr Marc Andreessen the co-founder of Netscape and other technology companies , landed the number one slot on Fortune magazine’s 2010 list of the top 40 executives under the age of 40. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg took second spot , followed by Twitter founders Evan Williams and Biz . Stone Of the top 10 executives , seven achieved their success with internet . companies For more information about the ranking , click here Share Written by IESE Library Staff in : Rankings Tags : Business Entrepreneurs Fortune rankings Successful people Apr 16 2010 500 Largest US Companies 2010 CC racineur Flickr Wal-Mart Stores the world’s largest retailer , has reclaimed the top
The Yes Men, Rainforest Action Network, and Amazon Watch caught Chevron by surprise last week by one-upping the planned release of Chevron’s “We Agree” ad campaign. The groups sent a fake press release to media outlets hours ahead of the Chevron release and put up a spoof website on the company’s behalf. The release spoke...Continue reading 'Change Chevron'.
California’s Proposition 26 would increase the legislative vote requirement from a majority to two-thirds for new and increased state and local fees and charges. Many of California’s environmental protection programs are funded with such fees. Opponents of Prop 26 say that it would make it even more difficult to hold polluters accountable, and to raise...Continue reading 'California Propositions 23 and 26 Web Tools'.
Out with the old. In with the new. When BP ceremoniously dumped bumbling gaffe-prone Tony Hayward after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and ushered in smooth-talking Bob Dudley, it was meant to herald a new era in the troubled giant’s history. But the disaster still wrangles BP badly. And it is no surprise therefore that...Continue reading 'BP: Stilling Passing Blame'.
We know that the Koch brothers fund climate change deniers. But now a great new report by Climate Action Network Europe (CAN-E) has analysed new data to track where dirty money is going in American politics. They have found nearly 80% of campaign donations – some $240,000 – from some of Europe’s biggest polluters is...'BP and Others Accused of “Climate Sabotage”'.
It’s a region that has seen its fair share of disasters in recent years. Hurricane Katrina. The BP oil spill to name the big two. But the Gulf Coast cumulative losses of $350 billion by 2030 if it fails to address climate change, according to a new $4 million study. And the warning comes not...Continue reading 'Gulf Coast Faces $350 Billion Threat'.
Only a couple of weeks ago Iran’s OPEC governor Mohammad Ali Khatibi was saying the crude oil market is oversupplied and prices of $70 and $80 are more nominal than real. “If we compare the current prices with the real prices of a few years ago, [today's real] prices will stand at USD 50 per...Continue reading 'If We Reach $100 a Barrel: Blame the Bankers'.
One of the more unsavoury trends in politics over the last couple of decades has been the sprouting of corporate front groups that pervert the political process. Often the give-away is in the title: so if something says it is an Alliance or made up of Citizens, you actually know it is nothing of the...Continue reading <a href="http://priceofoil.org/2010/10/20/what-a-faarce/"'What a FAArce'.
About Home BizKnowledge Watch IESE Library Blog Sep 03 2010 2010 Inc . Magazine’s Top 5000 CC dcancel Flickr VXI Global Solutions has topped the 2010 edition of the Inc.5000 Top 10 Job Creators , an exclusive ranking of the nation’s fastest-growing private companies . Freedom Group meanwhile , was crowned No . 1 in terms of total revenue 848.7 m while Lexicon Consulting took top honors in the first Top 10 Woman-Run Companies . ranking The list serves as a unique illustration of the profound changes taking place in the U.S . economy and represents the most comprehensive look at the fastest growing companies in the U.S . private . sector For more information , click here Share Written by IESE Library Staff in : Rankings Tags : Companies Fast-growing Inc.5000 Rankings United States Jun 22