• Shell Suspends Singapore Refinery After Fire

    Updated: 2011-09-30 19:29:11
    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 Suspends Singapore Refinery After Fire Sep 30th , 2011 by John Donovan By Ann Koh and Yee Kai Pin Sep 30, 2011 4:52 AM GMT+0100 Royal Dutch Shell Plc RDSA extinguished a fire that raged for two days at its largest oil refinery and said it’s shutting processing units at the Singapore plant as a . precaution The fire has been extinguished at Shell refinery at Pulau Bukom , Europe s biggest oil company said in a statement late yesterday . However , there are traces of fuel vapor . We are prepared to shut down all refinery units if this is considered necessary from a safety perspective , with the exception of utilities . The fire at Pulau

  • Shell shutting down entire Singapore refinery after fire

    Updated: 2011-09-30 19:29:11
    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 shutting down entire Singapore refinery after fire Sep 29th , 2011 by John Donovan SINGAPORE Thu Sep 29, 2011 8:22am EDT Reuters Royal Dutch Shell Plc is shutting down its entire Singapore refinery , the company’s largest , to get the fire that broke out on Wednesday under control , a senior company official told . reporters Shell is shutting more units in the vicinity of the area where the incident happened , Martijn van Koten , vice president for manufacturing operations told reporters on Thursday , and it may take two days to complete the . shutdown The fire could have started during maintenance work , he said . Only essential

  • Shell’s Alaska Oil Plan Contested by Village, Environment Groups

    Updated: 2011-09-30 19:29:11
    , 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’s Alaska Oil Plan Contested by Village , Environment Groups Sep 29th , 2011 by John Donovan By Katarzyna Klimasinska Sep 29, 2011 7:01 PM GMT+0100 Royal Dutch Shell Plc RDSA s U.S . approval for oil exploration in Alaska’s Beaufort Sea will be contested by groups including the Natural Resources Defense Council and an Inupiat village worried about the risk of . spills The Natural Resources Defense Council , based in New York and Point Hope , a settlement on Alaska’s North Slope , will sue the Obama administration for a decision allowing drilling in the Beaufort Sea , according to an e-mailed statement today from the . groups The

  • Is Royal Dutch Shell Trying To Muscle Into InterOil’s LNG Project?

    Updated: 2011-09-30 19:29:11
    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 Is Royal Dutch Shell Trying To Muscle Into InterOil’s LNG Project Sep 29th , 2011 by John Donovan EXTRACT FROM RELATED ARTICLE : Now that it is out in the open , the story in The Sunday Chronicle is actually very damaging for Shell Is Shell Trying To Muscle Into InterOil’s LNG Project Sunday September 25, 2011 THE O’Neill-Namah government has moved into damage control mode for the second LNG project development in Gulf . Province Meetings are to be scheduled over the next seven days to avert sending out a potentially damaging sovereign risk signal to the foreign investment community . The move will also distance the government from the

  • Corrib Gas Project may grind to a halt?

    Updated: 2011-09-30 19:29:11
    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 Corrib Gas Project may grind to a halt Sep 29th , 2011 by John Donovan We hear from our sources Strong rumours here in Erris , Co Mayo beside Corrib gas development that the project will grind to a halt following an up-and-coming court case involving a local contractor , Shell and the local police force Garda The word is that the CEO and others are heading for the exit over this matter . 8221 WARNING : These are rumors Attention Royal Dutch Shell Plc : If you confirm by email that any information printed under this headline is categorically untrue , it will be removed immediately . Posted in : Corrib Gas Project Gas Ireland Outspoken

  • China, Tanzania sign $1-billion gas pipeline deal

    Updated: 2011-09-30 13:17:00
    China and Tanzania have signed a loan agreement to build a major natural gas pipeline in East Africa's second-biggest economy, media reports say.

  • Shell Singapore refinery fire burns on

    Updated: 2011-09-29 14:19:09
    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 Singapore refinery fire burns on Sep 29th , 2011 by John Donovan By Luke Pachymuthu SINGAPORE Wed Sep 28, 2011 11:45pm EDT Reuters Royal Dutch Shell Plc halted tanker loading at its largest refinery , a half-a-million barrels-per-day plant in Singapore , as the company struggles to put out a fire burning since Wednesday . afternoon The blaze has forced Shell to shut down a diesel-making unit , although the company said it could continue to supply the market from storage and other . refineries Fire-fighting operations are still underway , 8221 the Singapore Civil Defense Force SCDF said in a statement early on . Thursday There are

  • BizKnowledge Watch Peru

    Updated: 2011-09-29 06:17:35
    IESE Blog Community About Home BizKnowledge Watch IESE Library Blog Sep 29 2011 0 Hidden Heroes : The next generation of retail markets stock . Xchng Deloitte has launched a report called Hidden Heroes which identifies the world’s next generation of retail markets . The ten countries surveyed Algeria , Kazakhstan , Kenya , Morocco , Nigeria , Pakistan , Peru , Serbia , South Africa and Vietnam– have a variety of positive . characteristics The study points to a growing middle class , an openness to investment and an undeveloped modern retail environment . It also cites numerous barriers to entry , such as undeveloped power and transport infrastructures and scattered . populations To download the report , visit the Deloitte website Share Written by IESE Library Staff in : Market Industry

  • BizKnowledge Watch Retail markets

    Updated: 2011-09-29 06:17:30
    IESE Blog Community About Home BizKnowledge Watch IESE Library Blog Sep 29 2011 0 Hidden Heroes : The next generation of retail markets stock . Xchng Deloitte has launched a report called Hidden Heroes which identifies the world’s next generation of retail markets . The ten countries surveyed Algeria , Kazakhstan , Kenya , Morocco , Nigeria , Pakistan , Peru , Serbia , South Africa and Vietnam– have a variety of positive . characteristics The study points to a growing middle class , an openness to investment and an undeveloped modern retail environment . It also cites numerous barriers to entry , such as undeveloped power and transport infrastructures and scattered . populations To download the report , visit the Deloitte website Share Written by IESE Library Staff in : Market Industry

  • Fire intensifies at Shell’s biggest refinery

    Updated: 2011-09-28 22:12:12
    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 Fire intensifies at Shell’s biggest refinery Sep 28th , 2011 by John Donovan By Yaw Yan Chong and Alejandro Barbajosa SINGAPORE Wed Sep 28, 2011 8:57am EDT Reuters A fire has intensified at Royal Dutch Shell’s largest refinery , its half-a-million barrel per day Singapore plant , sending a plume of black smoke over the . city-state Shell has evacuated non-essential staff from the refining complex , Singapore’s Civil Defense Force . said There is a fire and it grew significantly , but I am not aware of an explosion , 8221 said Lee Tzu Yang , chairman for Shell Companies in Singapore told . Reuters My understanding is that there are no people

  • Royal Dutch Shell interfering with politics

    Updated: 2011-09-28 22:12:10
    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 interfering with politics Sep 28th , 2011 by John Donovan From pages 41, 42, 43 44 of Royal Dutch Shell and its sustainability troubles” Background report to the Erratum of Shell’s Annual Report 2010 The report is made on behalf of Milieudefensie Friends of the Earth Netherlands Author : Albert ten Kate : May 2011. Interfering with politics Improper involvement Oil and politics have a lot to do with each other . The home states of Royal Dutch Shell are the United Kingdom and the Netherlands . These countries might want to secure their oil gas imports and the economic benefits of having an international oil company based

  • Fire at Shell Singapore refinery contained

    Updated: 2011-09-28 14:09:34
    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 Fire at Shell Singapore refinery contained Sep 28th , 2011 by John Donovan Wed Sep 28, 2011 4:31am EDT By Yaw Yan Chong and Francis Kan Reuters A fire at Royal Dutch Shell’s RDSa.L petroleum complex offshore Singapore is still burning but has been contained , although it was not clear what impact the blaze was having on . operations We confirm that a fire in the Pulau Bukom Manufacturing Site occurred today at approximately 1.15pm . Emergency responders are on the scene and the fire is contained . No injuries have been reported and the rest of the site’s operations are unaffected , 8221 a Shell spokesman . said A spokesman for the Singapore

  • Report Finds Gaps in USGS Study on Offshore Drilling in Arctic Ocean

    Updated: 2011-09-28 14:09:32
    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 Report Finds Gaps in USGS Study on Offshore Drilling in Arctic Ocean Sep 28th , 2011 by John Donovan By PHIL TAYLOR of Greenwire Published : September 27, 2011 A U.S . Geological Survey report last summer on the nation’s capacity to assess impacts from oil and gas drilling in the Arctic Ocean was credible and unbiased but failed to identify which scientific gaps are most important to fill , according to a new report commissioned by a pair of conservation . groups The report pdf by the Pew Environment Group and Ocean Conservancy also recommended that the Interior Department better monitor cumulative changes in Arctic waters , disseminate

  • The Flaring Scandal that Shames the US

    Updated: 2011-09-28 10:13:26
    Twenty years ago, Ken Saro-Wiwa, who was then largely unknown in the west either as an environmental activist or writer, started touring the capitals of Europe to drum up support for the Ogoni campaign against the oil giant Shell. Saro-Wiwa and the Ogoni had many issues with Shell – the fact that they had received...Continue reading 'The Flaring Scandal that Shames the US'.

  • Britain Backs Canada Over Tar Sands Fight

    Updated: 2011-09-27 10:35:46
    On a warm summer evening in July this year, in the prestigious and ornate College Garden of Britain’s historic Westminster Abbey, 250 guests listened to a five-piece band. The music was the start of an inaugural summer party organised by the public relations company Hanover Communications. The guest list for the party was impressive, including...Continue reading 'Britain Backs Canada Over Tar Sands Fight'.

  • BizKnowledge Watch 2011 September 26

    Updated: 2011-09-26 17:39:41
    IESE Blog Community About Home BizKnowledge Watch IESE Library Blog Sep 26 2011 0 Ranking Web of World Repositories SSRN the scholarly research in the social sciences and humanities database , has again been named the Number 1 Open Access Repository in the World by the Ranking Web of World Repositories . Arxiv.org e-Print Archive occupies second place , followed by CiteSeerX in third . The highest ranked Spanish institution is the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona’s digital document repository , which featured among the Top 25. To see the complete rankings , click here You can access SSRN from our E-Resources list Share Written by IESE Library Staff in : IESE Library Rankings Tags : Information Resources Repositories Categories Books and libraries Careers Economics Statistics IESE Library

  • “It’s a pie in the sky” number

    Updated: 2011-09-26 11:14:10
    On Wednesday last week, the hype that has surrounding fracking in the US finally arrived in the UK. The energy firm Cuadrilla, which has been drilling wells in the North West of the country under Lancashire, announced a “huge find” of gas. Cuadrilla announced that that its tests showed there could be as much as...Continue reading '“It’s a pie in the sky” number'.

  • BizKnowledge Watch 2011 September 21

    Updated: 2011-09-21 11:16:01
    IESE Blog Community About Home BizKnowledge Watch IESE Library Blog Sep 21 2011 0 Global Ranking of Information and Communication Technology CC Tsubaki Kaworu Flickr The Republic of Korea has topped this year’s edition of the ICT Development Index IDI with Sweden and Iceland trailing in second and third place , respectively . Spain meanwhile , remains in 25th , the position it has held since 2008. A total of 152 economies were surveyed for the . ranking The Index combines 11 indicators into a single measure that can be used as a benchmarking tool globally , regionally and at the country level and compares progress made during the past two years . These are related to ICT access , use and skills , such as households with a computer , the number of Internet users and literacy . levels For

  • BizKnowledge Watch 2011 September 02

    Updated: 2011-09-20 19:11:10
    IESE Blog Community About Home BizKnowledge Watch IESE Library Blog Sep 02 2011 Latin America and the Caribbean in the World Economy Stock.xchng The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean ECLAC has just published the report , Latin America and the Caribbean in the World Economy : The Region in the Decade of the Emerging Economies . According to the study , the value of goods exported from Latin America and the Caribbean will grow by 27 percent in 2011, which is a similar increase to that of last year . This growth would result from a 9 percent increase in the volume of exports and an 18 percent rise in the price of products exported by the . region The South-South exchange , headed byChina and the rest of emerging Asia , is identified as the main driving force of global

  • BizKnowledge Watch 2011 September 07

    Updated: 2011-09-20 19:10:53
    IESE Blog Community About Home BizKnowledge Watch IESE Library Blog Sep 07 2011 Investment Trends and Opportunities in India CC Stuck in Customs Flickr ICEX has published its quarterly report on investments in India covering the period april-june 2011. The report contains an introduction on the country’s political and economic climate and their implications for investors , a sub-section on Spanish companies operating in India and an overview of the current investment trends and . opportunities To download the report , visit the ICEX website Share Written by IESE Library Staff in : Market Industry reports Tags : ICEX India Investment Sep 07 2011 World Best University Rankings 2011 CC The Happy Rower Flickr Cambridge is the best university in the world according to the latest edition of the

  • BizKnowledge Watch 2011 September 08

    Updated: 2011-09-20 19:10:47
    IESE Blog Community About Home BizKnowledge Watch IESE Library Blog Sep 08 2011 World’s Most Expensive Cities CC mel Toledo Flickr Oslo Zurich and Geneva in that order are the world’s three most expensive cities , according to the latest edition of UBS’ Prices and Earnings Survey . Barcelona the most expensive city in Spain , occupies 25th place , with Madrid trailing slightly , in 30th . spot At the other end of the scale , Mumbai leapfrogged 73 cities to claim the cheapest global city” . title The study is based on a selected basket of 122 goods and services including clothes , transport , restaurants , hotels , electrical appliances and real estate . rents To view the full study click on the link . below Share Written by IESE Library Staff in : Rankings Tags : Expensive cities Price and

  • BizKnowledge Watch 2011 September 12

    Updated: 2011-09-20 19:10:36
    IESE Blog Community About Home BizKnowledge Watch IESE Library Blog Sep 12 2011 Repsol YPF and Telefonica Among World’s Greenest Corporations CC rul Flickr Spanish oil and gas giant Repsol YPF has been recognized as a leader in the Oil Gas sector in the 2011 edition of the Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes , obtaining the highest score out of 12 oil companies included in the global index . Spanish telecommunications behemoth Telefónica meanwhile , was rated the best in class on six key variables : risk and crisis management environmental management development of human capital impact of telecommunications services and digital inclusion and stakeholder . engagement DJSI is the world’s most comprehensive annual analysis of corporate sustainability performance . It is based on a thorough

  • Keystone XL: Its Not Jobs Versus Ideology

    Updated: 2011-09-20 10:27:19
    As the decision day for the Keystone XL pipeline draws ever nearer, the amount of rubbish being written by its proponents grows ever greater. Yesterday an article in the Vancouver Sun basically said the argument was very simple: it was jobs versus ideology. The article stated: “will human employment and corporate revenue eventually prevail over...Continue reading 'Keystone XL: Its Not Jobs Versus Ideology'.

  • Chinese Increase Investment in Tar Sands

    Updated: 2011-09-19 11:48:05
    In its “Energy Outlook” for last month, the global investment bank Goldman Sachs argued that “China remains the key growth driver” for worldwide oil demand. One of the key questions for the past decade for many in the oil-game has been where China, this vast emerging super-power, is getting access to its oil and will...Continue reading 'Chinese Increase Investment in Tar Sands'.

  • Gov Report into Deepwater “Spreads Blame”

    Updated: 2011-09-14 11:06:23
    After numerous delays, and even the departure of a lead investigator, later today the US government is expected to release the report into last year’s Deepwater Horizon disaster that has been undertaken by the Coast Guard and the Agency responsible for regulating offshore drilling. According to the Wall Street Journal, the federal investigation into the...Continue reading 'Gov Report into Deepwater “Spreads Blame”'.

  • Join Moving Planet on September 24!

    Updated: 2011-09-13 14:37:54
    Moving Planet is a worldwide rally to demand solutions to the climate crisis. Come on bike, on skates, on a board, or just on foot. Thousands of people all over the world will be gathering on September 24 to get moving beyond fossil fuels. They’ll be demanding government action, especially in places where governments are...Continue reading 'Join Moving Planet on September 24!'.

  • Cairn Suffers Another Greenland Setback

    Updated: 2011-09-13 10:35:07
    In the rush for the Arctic, Cairn Energy is currently the environmental villain of the moment. Despite the disastrous risks of a spill and a clearly inadequate spill response plan, the company is leading the way in drilling off Greenland. As I blogged last week, a spill in the region could be catastrophic, and Cairn...Continue reading 'Cairn Suffers Another Greenland Setback'.

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