Woodside Petroleum: To Shell or Not to Shell?
Updated: 2011-11-08 11:02:58
: 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 Woodside Petroleum : To Shell or Not to Shell Nov 8th , 2011 by John Donovan NOVEMBER 8, 2011 By Gillian Tan It’s been a year to the day since Royal Dutch Shell blindsided Australia’s largest oil and gas company Woodside Petroleum by selling down a 10 stake for A$3.3 billion US$3.4 billion Appeasing Woodside , Shell promised to hold onto its remaining 24.27 interest for a year unless a takeover offer or a strategic buyer . surfaced Given that no industry interest arose even when stock fell to a three-year low below A$30 US$31.08 analysts believe the only way Shell can divest is to return to the . market Apart from the fact that the stock
IESE Blog Community About Home BizKnowledge Watch IESE Library Blog Nov 07 2011 0 Human Development Report 2011 CC UNDP The UN has just published the Human Development Report 2011 Sustainability and Equity : A Better Future for All The report argues that the urgent global challenges of sustainability and equity must be addressed together , and identifies policies on the national and global level that could spur mutually reinforcing progress towards these interlinked . goals The report predicts a disturbing reversal of those trends if environmental deterioration and social inequalities continue to intensify , with the least developed countries diverging downwards from global patterns of progress by 2050. The report also looks at how the world’s most disadvantaged people would suffer the
: , . , IESE Blog Community About Home BizKnowledge Watch IESE Library Blog Nov 07 2011 The quest : energy , security and the remaking of the modern world by Daniel Yergin . London Allen Lane , 2011 In this gripping account of the quest for the energy that our world needs , Daniel Yergin continues the riveting story begun in his Pulitzer Prize-winning book , The Prize A master storyteller as well as a leading energy expert , Yergin shows us how energy is an engine of global political and economic change . It is a story that spans the energies on which our civilization has been built and the new energies that are competing to replace them . From the jammed streets of Beijing to the shores of the Caspian Sea , from the conflicts in the Mideast to Capitol Hill and Silicon Valley , Yergin
Yesterday, over 12,000 people came from across North America and Canada to the White House to call on President Obama to stop the highly controversial Keystone XL pipeline. The thousands of protesters, some carrying a long black inflatable replica of a pipeline, formed a human chain around the White House. Some chanted “Yes we can,...Continue reading .
As thousands gather around the White House tomorrow to urge President Obama to reject the Keystone XL pipeline, let’s take a minute to look at some of the ways the project has garnered political support so far. Because in the end this is a political decision. A yes indicates support for Big Oil and the...<br /Continue reading 'How to buy a pipeline? Buy Congress.'.
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 Gas work at Shell Gannet Alpha leak pipeline completed Nov 5th , 2011 by John Donovan 4 November 2011 Work to release gas trapped in a pipeline which spilled more than 200 tonnes of oil into the North Sea has been completed , Shell has . said Divers earlier closed a relief valve after the incident at the Gannet Alpha platform in . August Shell said the latest operation on the 4km structure had further enhanced its stability and . security” Plans are being made to deal with the remaining oil in the pipeline . An investigation into the leak is . ongoing The impact of the oil spill in the North Sea was minimal , Scottish Fisheries Minister
IESE Blog Community About Home BizKnowledge Watch IESE Library Blog Nov 04 2011 0 The World’s Most Powerful People Barack Obama has topped Forbes list of the world’s most powerful people in 2011, followed by Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in second , and Chinese President Hu Jintao in . third German Chancellor Angela Merkel remained the most powerful woman , at No . 4 on the list . Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates , at No . 5, was the first corporate executive on the list while Facebook founder , Mark Zuckerberg , shot into ninth position from last year’s . 40th Forbes compiled the rankings by evaluating each person’s perceived influence over the 7 billion people living on the planet . The list includes heads of state , major religious figures , entrepreneurs and . outlaws For a full
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 was squeezed out of the Sakhalin-2 project precisely five years ago Nov 4th , 2011 by John Donovan By Motley Fool Staff Posted 9:58PM 11 03 11 EXTRACTS Last week , my Foolish colleague Alex Planes wrote a superb article offering the conclusion that Cheap Oil Isn’t Coming Back , 8221 an assessment with which I completely agree . Beyond that , though , I’d add , And Cheap Gas Has a Brief Future , Too . 8221 With that in mind , it’s crucial to look back at the recent earnings season to garner what we can about which major oil companies appear to offer the biggest boosts for our . portfolios Shell’s full of LNG Royal Dutch Shell also
We have discussed a number of times on this blog how energy security cannot be attained through importing more oil from Canada or increasing domestic drilling. These false solutions give the impression something is being done to ease the burden of high oil prices on the nation but in reality make no difference. So it...Continue reading 'Military Wisdom: Pentagon strategy doesn’t include Canadian oil'.
So its official: fracking causes earthquakes. Just minutes ago, a report published by the oil company Cuadrilla as to whether its drilling operations caused two “earthquakes” back in April and May, concluded that fracking was the “highly probable” cause of the small seismic events. Cuadrilla suspended fracking operations in June, over fears of a link...Continue reading 'The Downsides of “Extreme Energy”'.
I remember years ago going to a lecture by a senior executive from Premier Oil about operating in Burma and he said that oil men liked working in authoritarian regimes as they were much more predictable than democracies. Ironically they were more stable. Over the last year, the Arab spring has challenged this concept to...Continue reading 'Oil and Democracy Don’t Mix'.
IESE Blog Community About Home BizKnowledge Watch IESE Library Blog Oct 31 2011 0 OECD Economic Survey of Brazil Stock.xchng The OECD has just published the Economic Survey of Brazil 2011 According to the survey , reforms are essential for Brazil to build on recent success . Although the Brazilian economy has made a rapid recovery from the global economic crisis , further reforms are still necessary to boost long-term growth , spur investment and further reduce . poverty The report projects that GDP growth will slow to less than 4 percent over the coming two years , which is below recent annual trend rates of 4.5 percent , but still well above the average for OECD . countries The full text is available to the IESE . Community Share Written by IESE Library Staff in : Economics Statistics
IESE Blog Community About Home BizKnowledge Watch IESE Library Blog Nov 01 2011 0 G20 Trade and Investment Measures Stock.xchng A joint UNCTAD-OECD report has been published on G20 Trade and Investment Measures The report analyzes the investment policy measures undertaken by G20 countries in the past six months and finds that the global economic recovery is facing new challenges , with foreign direct investment likely to slow down in the second half of 2011. During the late-April to early-October 2011 reporting period , nine G-20 members implemented policy measures directly targeting investment and capital : flows Five G-20 members took investment-specific policy measures Brazil , China , India , Italy and the Republic of Korea Four G-20 members concluded four bilateral investment treaties
$100 Billion. That’s what the big 5 oil companies have made in profits since January 1. $102.85 billion to be more precise, according to my own calculations (see table below). That means that they’re on course to top $140 billion for 2011. More if oil prices keep rising. And that’s in a year when unemployment...Continue reading 'The Living Dead: will Big Oil’s record profits turn us all to zombies?'.
Last Friday, oil giant Royal Dutch Shell, announced that it had doubled third quarter profits to $7.2 billion. So where is this cash coming from? Let’s not forget that Shell has spent millions over the last fifteen years trying to remould its image from a dirty oil company implicated in human rights abuses to a...Continue reading 'Shell “Threatens” the EU with Long-Term Exit'.
Britain was joined by some Eastern European countries yesterday in backing Canada in its dirty fight to force the EU not to discriminate against the tar sands in the Fuel Quality Directive. A meeting of European environment experts yesterday had been expected to vote on a proposal by the European Commission to give a different...Continue reading 'Britain Backs Canadian Bullying Over Tar Sands'.