• Alleged Shell violation of U.S. Export Restrictions

    Updated: 2010-05-31 21:20:42
    . 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 Alleged Shell violation of U.S . Export Restrictions May 31st , 2010 by John Donovan NAME AND EMAIL ADDRESS OF WHISTLE BLOWER WITHHELD FROM PUBLICATION Dear , John As a Shell insider I need to stay anonymous but I will point you to the right . story As you possible know , there are export restrictions to export software and technology which is US based to restricted countries like Iran , Sudan , Syria , North Korea and Cuba . Shell violates this export restrictions as Shell is using software and technology without a valid export . license One example will be that in the joint venture from Shell and Sinopec both companies are using

  • Three BP Fuel Oil Traders in U.S. Quit

    Updated: 2010-05-31 21:20:40
    The void left by the departures of key traders globally, including Asia team leader Edmund Lau, has removed important support for the fundamentally weak Asian

  • Re: Three BP Fuel Oil Traders in U.S. Quit

    Updated: 2010-05-31 21:20:40
    Tom Robertson wrote: How much better off would we be if the money spent (to say nothing of the lives lost) in Iraq and Afghanistan, et al were spent right here

  • Re: Three BP Fuel Oil Traders in U.S. Quit

    Updated: 2010-05-31 21:20:40
    ~~~~~~~~~~EnergyResources Moderator Comment ~~~~~~~~ Brent et al In the following we are told: "The reason for the (BP) resignations was not immediately

  • Coal Hard Facts | Peak Oil News and Message Boards

    Updated: 2010-05-31 12:41:05
    Peak Oil News and Message Boards is a community and collaboration portal about energy-related topics. More: continued here

  • Matt Simmons Tells Bloomberg Only Way To Contain Oil Leak Is With …

    Updated: 2010-05-31 12:41:04
    As Jim Bianco points out: “Matt Simmons gained fame with his book 2005 Twilight in the Desert where he claimed that the Saudis were overstating their oil output because they hit “peak oil.” Right or wrong Simmons claimed the price of ... More: continued here

  • Barreling Toward Peak Oil (BusinessWeek) | AchievEverything.com

    Updated: 2010-05-31 12:41:03
    BusinessWeek - The amount of oil consumed in the world is unbelievable -- 85 million barrels a day. And we are not making more of it. Find more info about. More: continued here

  • Peak Oil: The real reason behind deep water drilling « The African …

    Updated: 2010-05-31 12:41:02
    There are a variety of studies out on this and various estimates of when this will occur, but most estimates put Peak Oil occurring within the next decade, if not sooner. There are even some estimates that suggest that we've already ... More: continued here

  • Oil is not the enemy – Financial Post

    Updated: 2010-05-31 12:41:01
    Oil is not the enemyFinancial PostWhen it comes to demonizing our most important hydrocarbon, environmentalists have found allies in the peak-oil movement. But the truth is that oil can ...and more » More: continued here

  • Lessons of the Deepwater Horizon Disaster – Firedoglake (blog)

    Updated: 2010-05-31 12:41:00
    Lessons of the Deepwater Horizon DisasterFiredoglake (blog)Oil and other fossil fuels are finite resources; we are at or beyond Peak Oil (more than half of available global oil has been used already), ...and more » More: continued here

  • Ryder Paymaster…behold the wedge-shaped wonder says Biglorryblog with thanks … – Road Transport (blog)

    Updated: 2010-05-31 12:40:59
    Ryder Paymaster...behold the wedge-shaped wonder says Biglorryblog with thanks ...Road Transport (blog)Now that 'Peak Oil' has passed, how long before we see these issues return again to the UK ? The designer was Dean Hobbensiefken. Regards, Mike. ... More: continued here

  • Homeland Security Had Proposed Cutting Emergency Response Budget Before Gulf Spill – Treehugger

    Updated: 2010-05-31 12:40:58
    TreehuggerHomeland Security Had Proposed Cutting Emergency Response Budget Before Gulf SpillTreehuggerThe idea that emergency response coordinating center budget should be reduced, given that Peak Oil has been driving the rigs into ever deeper water, ... More: continued here

  • Scottish hopes over renewable energy – Financial Times

    Updated: 2010-05-31 12:40:57
    Scottish hopes over renewable energyFinancial Times“The smart people will move now – because those who wait for peak oil are potentially going to miss the boat. “By the time they think they had better look ...and more » More: continued here

  • We Are Oil Responsible; Can We Get Serious About Kicking the Habit? – Care2.com (blog)

    Updated: 2010-05-31 12:40:56
    We Are Oil Responsible; Can We Get Serious About Kicking the Habit?Care2.com (blog)While scientists and politicians argue about whether Peak Oil (the moment of the global peak in oil production) has occurred or when it will, ...and more » More: continued here

  • BP’s Top Kill Effort Fails to Plug Leak

    Updated: 2010-05-30 11:03:29
    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’s Top Kill Effort Fails to Plug Leak May 30th , 2010 by John Donovan Posted in : Associated Press BP Environment Oil Pollution United States Tagged : BP YouTube BP Prepares to Take New Tack on Leak After Top Kill’ Fails 0 Comments on BP’s Top Kill Effort Fails to Plug Leak” Leave a Comment You must be logged in to post a . comment Subscribe to Feed Meta Register Log in Entries RSS Comments RSS WordPress.org Website Founder Alfred Donovan Illustration of 93 year old Alfred Donovan , founder of royaldutchshellplc.com , displayed courtesy of The Wall Street Journal Website Information WHAT A SHELL OFFICIAL SAID ABOUT : US John and Alfred

  • BP Prepares to Take New Tack on Leak After ‘Top Kill’ Fails

    Updated: 2010-05-30 11:03:28
    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 Prepares to Take New Tack on Leak After Top Kill’ Fails May 30th , 2010 by John Donovan THE NEW YORK TIMES Win Mcnamee Getty Images : Crews worked Saturday on the failed top kill effort to stanch the leaking oil well in the Gulf of Mexico . BP will try another . strategy By LESLIE KAUFMAN and CLIFFORD KRAUSS A version of this article appeared in print on Sunday May 30, 2010, on page A1 of the New York . edition NEW ORLEANS In another serious setback in the effort to stem the flow of oil gushing from a well a mile beneath the Gulf of Mexico , BP engineers said Saturday that the top kill” technique had failed and , after consultation with

  • BP share price fear over latest setback

    Updated: 2010-05-30 02:23:31
    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’s

  • New drilling rules’ impact goes beyond Big Oil

    Updated: 2010-05-29 09:01:24
    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 New drilling rules’ impact goes beyond Big Oil May 29th , 2010 by John Donovan By CHRIS KAHN AP 28 May 2010 NEW YORK President Obama’s decision to halt new deepwater oil exploration will extend beyond the Gulf of Mexico , affecting boat captains , helicopter pilots , mechanics and others who rely on drilling for their . livelihoods The industry employs a community of service companies with 75,000 workers in the U.S . Many of them can’t afford to rearrange their plans as easily as oil giants like BP and . Shell This can’t be good , 8221 said Mark Cuevas , owner of a crew boat that transports passengers and cargo to deepwater rigs and

  • Keeping an ION Shale Oil

    Updated: 2010-05-29 00:36:06
    ION’s Senior Vice President of Corporate Marketing, Chris Friedemann, recently spoke at the Hart’s Developing Unconventional Oil (DUO) symposium in Denver.  More than 800 members of the E&P community attended the conference to learn about the latest geoscience, drilling, and completion technologies and techniques for reservoir characterization and development in unconventional oil plays including the Bakken, Monterey, [...]

  • Shell agrees to buy US rival for $4.7bn

    Updated: 2010-05-29 00:23:08
    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 agrees to buy US rival for 4.7bn May 28th , 2010 by John Donovan Francesca Steele : May 28, 2010 Royal Dutch Shell has agreed to buy East Resources , the US natural gas explorer , for 4.7 billion 3.2 billion The Amsterdam-based oil and gas giant said that it had struck a deal with East Resources and its private equity investor Kohlberg Kravis Roberts to acquire subsidiaries which own substantially all of the . business” East Resources has more than 650,000 acres in the Marcellus shale , a rock formation running from West Virginia to New York , which is said to contain vast amounts of natural gas . It produces the equivalent of almost

  • Rethinking Offshore Drilling

    Updated: 2010-05-29 00:23:07
    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 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

  • Shell says drilling ‘pause’ will cost Alaskans jobs

    Updated: 2010-05-29 00:23:06
    "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.

  • BP: Biggest Polluter

    Updated: 2010-05-29 00:23:06
    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 ...

  • Shell Buys U.S. Gas Assets From East Resources for $4.7 Billion

    Updated: 2010-05-29 00:23:04
    "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.

  • Royal Dutch Shell BP Merger?

    Updated: 2010-05-29 00:23:03
    "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.

  • This Sort of Explains a Lot

    Updated: 2010-05-28 16:21:46
    Via TJIC: By the way, where does the government get the money to fund all these immensely useful programs? According to a Fox News poll earlier this year, 65 per cent of Americans understand that the government gets its money from taxpayers, but 24 per cent think the government has “plenty of [...]

  • Obama Takes Command, Buys Some Time and Pisses Off the Oil Industry

    Updated: 2010-05-28 08:15:51
    President Obama issued new offshore drilling rules, a move that buys the administration some time to figure out its next step.

  • What will be the EU energy consumption in 2050?

    Updated: 2010-05-28 08:07:50
    In the EU like elsewhere the amount of energy that will be consumed in the future is determined as the product of population, wealth and energy intensity. The EU’s population is expected to remain more or less stable to 2050, according to Eurostat increasing from 495 million today to 520 million in 2035 and [...]

  • Gulf Oil Spill: It's Way Larger Than We Thought -- and Than BP Admitted

    Updated: 2010-05-27 22:27:38
    What's bigger than the Exxon Valdez disaster and will break U.S. oil spill records?

  • Deja Vu as Oil Spill Workers Get Sick

    Updated: 2010-05-27 12:31:12
    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 ...

  • The Immigration Debate Summarized

    Updated: 2010-05-27 04:13:27
    Conservatives want immigrants to work, but not vote. Liberals want immigrants to vote, but not work.

  • Its Top Kill or a $70 Billion Bill

    Updated: 2010-05-27 03:53:12
    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” ...

  • Open-Ended Climate Legislation Delay Means Cleantech Needs to Rethink Itself

    Updated: 2010-05-26 18:10:50
    Supporters of climate change legislation received the latest blow to their hopes yesterday with a comment made by a high-ranking Chinese...

  • BP Oil Spill Probe Finds One Hot Mess -- or Seven Causes Behind the Gulf Disaster

    Updated: 2010-05-26 14:34:37
    BP shared its first detailed report of its investigation into the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. What they found was one hot mess.

  • Dispersant Row Intensifies

    Updated: 2010-05-25 10:32:32
    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 ...

  • The Euro Decline Becomes Radioactive

    Updated: 2010-05-24 17:17:19
      Some of the world's largest money managers and central banks have become increasingly skeptical of the Euro, presenting a threat to the common currency's future prospects. So far during the euro's months-long descent, attention has been focused on hedge-fund selling of European assets but central banks and large managers have a ...

  • “Into the abyss of death”

    Updated: 2010-05-24 17:17:17
    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 ...

  • Friday Fun: A Trilogy of Congratulations

    Updated: 2010-05-23 15:33:39
    A trilogy of congratulations are in order. First, to Italy’s FC Internazionale (aka Inter Milan) for winning the UEFA Champion’s League yesterday in Madrid.  To get there, they had to beat what are arguably three of the best football teams in the world — Chelsea, Barcelona, and Bayern Munich.  A well deserved title for the boys [...]

  • BP forced to come clean over spill size: Ordered to stop using toxic dispersant

    Updated: 2010-05-21 13:42:47
    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 ...

  • Don’t Worry - Be Happy

    Updated: 2010-05-20 11:43:25
    [caption id="attachment_4803" align="alignleft" width="242" caption="Sandison/Greenpeace"][/caption] “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 ...

  • U.S. Leading Economic Indicators Improving

    Updated: 2010-05-19 19:12:03
    With last week’s welcomed news of robust jobs growth, and yesterday’s announcement that consumer prices fell in April for the first time in 13 months as energy prices tumbled and high unemployment limited the private sector's ability to raise prices on the backs of consumers. The 0.1% decrease in overall prices ...

  • Financial Times Pulls Anti-Shell Advert

    Updated: 2010-05-19 19:11:49
    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 ...

  • Emerging Markets Round-Up

    Updated: 2010-05-19 09:11:46
      ·     Emerging markets retain appetite for western food The appetite of emerging markets for processed food, meat and dairy products has confounded fears of a big drop in demand in the wake of the financial crisis, says Cargill, the big US agribusiness. ·     Vodafone forced to write down Indian business World's largest ...

  • Is what is good for China good for the world and vice-versa?

    Updated: 2010-05-19 07:22:12
    In promising on a unilateral level to reduce the energy intensity of its economy by more than 40% from 2005 levels by 2020, China has positioned itself among the political leaders in the debate about climate change. Is China’s target ambitious and achievable? China had already taken steps forward a few years ago, since in March [...]

  • Motorola DEVOUR with MOTOBLUR - Motorola USA

    Updated: 2010-05-18 23:16:00
    Motorola DEVOUR with MOTOBLUR - Motorola USA <img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10387674-8948668068352074550?l=depletion.blogspot.com' alt='' /

  • Investors Warned Tar Sands are a “Slow Motion” Oil Spill

    Updated: 2010-05-18 15:53:20
    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 ...

  • US Economics: ‘It’s the Economy, Stupid!’

    Updated: 2010-05-17 23:05:38
    James Carville will forever be remembered for coining this simple, yet elegant euphemism during former President Bill Clinton's first presidential campaign. Not surprisingly, it still applies even today, although...I will be the first to admit that the economic stars in the Obama Administration don't quite seem to grasp the concept ...

  • Could the Spill Sink BP?

    Updated: 2010-05-17 23:05:22
    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 ...

  • Hi-Speed Secret Trading Caused ‘Flash Crash’

    Updated: 2010-05-17 11:24:13
      If  you saw a penny on the sidewalk, would you pick it up?  You may think it's not worth the effort, but a breed of investors who have been in the news do. Using high-speed, high-frequency programmed trades, Traders in effect bend down to pick up those pennies – often ...

  • 60 Minutes: Deepwater Horizon Blowout

    Updated: 2010-05-17 02:54:40
    From the CBS TV show, 60 Minutes. The interview begins after a 30 second commercial. Watch CBS News Videos Online Additional segments related to the Deepwater Horizon are available on the 60 Minutes web site. Share/Save

  • The single market and green growth: energy, climate change, environment

    Updated: 2010-05-14 01:55:52
    The energy sector is one of the late arrivals in the single market. At the same time, it is the sector on which the highest expectations are placed today. 2012 will not be the 20th anniversary of the single market for energy. Rather it will just mark the beginning of the consolidation of a common [...]

  • Macondo Blowout (Seabed Video)

    Updated: 2010-05-13 22:12:25
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  • Marcellus Seismic Survey Completed

    Updated: 2010-05-12 22:12:29
    Conquest-Tesla just finished a highly successful, full-wave seismic acquisition project in the super-hot Marcellus shale play using the FireFly cableless acquisition system from ION’s land equipment joint venture company – INOVA.  FireFly is really hitting its stride.  The typical seismic crew operating in this area of the Marcellus might generate 400-500 shots per day.  The Conquest crew [...]

  • Innovation trends in nuclear power generation

    Updated: 2010-05-09 17:31:18
    The number of patents in a given technological field provides a proxy of the strengths and paths of innovation. Using a worldwide database on patents, we gave a quick glance at patterns in innovation in nuclear technology, its relation with specific historical events and oil prices. We also found interesting trends regarding nuclear innovation in [...]

  • Bubble of methane triggered rig blast - Yahoo! News

    Updated: 2010-05-08 09:49:16
    ON THE GULF OF MEXICO – The deadly blowout of an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico was triggered by a bubble of methane gas that escaped from the well and shot up the drill column, expanding quickly as it burst through several seals and barriers before exploding, according to interviews with rig workers conducted during BP's internal investigation. While the cause of the explosion is still under investigation, the sequence of events described in the interviews provides the most detailed account of the April 20 blast that killed 11 workers and touched off the underwater gusher that has poured more than 3 million gallons of crude into the

  • Energy Future and Gulf Oil Disaster

    Updated: 2010-05-05 17:51:00
    &nbsp;I think Obama pragmatically decided in the past to allow more coastal drilling strictly because our country had no other choice.Our country is currently importing 2/3's of the oil it uses which negatively impacts both our economy and national security. As a result of this disaster there will be more safeguards set up to prevent future enviromental and economic disasters . Drilling will have to continue in some form offshore. IMHO&nbsp; the primary result of this disaster will be an increased push in congress for renewable

  • It&#x27;s not a Spill folks,It&#x27;s an uncontrolled flow

    Updated: 2010-05-05 04:49:46
    I'm tired of hearing newscasters calling the Gulf mess a ’spill’when it hasn't ended yet. Oil is flowing still at the rate of 5000 barrels per day in an uncontrolled oil 'flow’. I'm also wondering whether it's still going to be an uncontrolled oil flow 3 months from now.The best case scenario is that something can be done in 3 months. I'll believe it when I see

  • What’s Stopping New US Nukes?

    Updated: 2010-05-04 16:50:03
    It is much easier building nuclear power plants in an authoritarian country, one with a central planning organization, or with a single state-owned power enterprise. That explains why China and South Korea, for example, can push ahead with ambitious nuclear construction plans. The same applies to France, where there is virtually a single, dominant, state-owned [...]

  • The Spill vs. a Need to Drill

    Updated: 2010-05-04 04:46:24
    Here's a quote from this article.“This is potentially a watershed environmental disaster,” said Wesley P. Warren, the director of programs at the Natural Resources Defense Council. “This one is a gigantic wake up call on the need to move beyond oil as an energy source.” Here's the link <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/02/weekinreview/02jad.html?ref=us">http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/02/weekinreview/02jad.html?ref=us</a>

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