Oil giant Exxon Mobil has secured a contract with Russia’s state oil company, Rosneft, to explore the floor of the Arctic Ocean for oil. At a surprise signing ceremony in Sochi, site of the coming Winter Olympics, Vladimir Putin stated, “The scale of the investment is very ...
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 Exxon Reaches Arctic Oil Deal With Russians Aug 31st , 2011 by John Donovan By ANDREW E . KRAMER A version of this article appeared in print on August 31, 2011, on page A1 of the New York edition MOSCOW Exxon Mobil won a coveted prize in the global petroleum industry Tuesday with an agreement to explore for oil in a Russian portion of the Arctic Ocean that is being opened for drilling even as Alaskan waters remain mostly off . limits The agreement seemed to supersede a similar but failed deal that Russia s state oil company , Rosneft reached with the British oil giant BP this year with a few striking . differences Where BP had planned to
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 Another Denial of Service Attack on Royal Dutch Shell Plc com website Aug 31st , 2011 by John Donovan Distributed Denial of Service attack , is when a server is bombarded with so many requests that it can’t respond to legitimate traffic . By John Donovan Apologies for this website being down earlier today . Our dedicated server may have been the target of a denial-of-service high load attack by an unknown party . This information comes from our hosting company in Dallas . DoS attacks generally involve organised efforts by a third party with malicious intent , to prevent an Internet site or service from functioning efficiently or at all .
, 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 BEYOND UNEP REPORT , CRIMINAL LIABILITY SHOULD BE SLAMMED ON SHELL OIL COMPANY Aug 29th , 2011 by John Donovan Nigeria’s then acting President Goodluck Jonathan with President Obama in 2010 By KORNEBARI NWIKE 8 28 2011 President Goodluck Jonathan constituted a special committee on oil pollution in Ogoniland recently , according to him to perform a holistic review of the UNEP report . The committee is chaired by Mrs . Diezani Allison-Madueke , Minister of Petroleum Resources and former Shell Oil Company employee . The committee also has Mr . Austen Oniwon , Group Managing Director of Nigeria National Petroleum Company NNPC as a member .
: The Oil Drum Discussions about Energy and Our Future Natural Gas : The Squeeze at the Bottom of the Resource Triangle The Oil Drum TheOilDrum.com Archive 2005-2010 Drumbeat : August 29, 2011 DrumBeat Drumbeat : August 31, 2011 Posted by Leanan on August 31, 2011 9:05am Has Peak Oil Come To The Non-Opec World . Maybe The world’s biggest oil companies put in a pretty pathetic performance in the second quarter of 2011. Not in terms of earnings those were great , with Exxon posting 10.7 billion and Royal Dutch Shell doing 8 billion . Just what you’d expect with Brent crude at a lofty 120 a barrel . Where the results were disappointing was in the barrels . Of the 16 big U.S . and European oil companies studied by Deutsche Bank analyst Paul Sankey , 14 of them saw their production of petroleum
The Keystone XL Pipeline: Oil for Export, Not for U.S. Energy Security Industry Documents Reveal Scheme to Reach Lucrative Markets Abroad Download the full report. In pushing for the Obama Administration’s approval of TransCanada’s proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, the North American oil industry and its political patrons argue that the pipeline is necessary...'Report: Exporting Energy Security: Keystone XL Exposed'.
It will not just be Bob Dudley from BP who will be aghast at the news that Exxon and Rosneft have signed a historical deal to develop Arctic oil reserves, but many people from Alaska too. Just months after BP failed in a bid to form a strategic alliance with Rosneft, ExxonMobil has outsmarted its...Continue reading 'Exxon Beats BP to Arctic Prize'.
A renewed push for permits by oil companies in the Gulf of Mexico is being overshadowed by a row over whether BP’s capped Macondo well is actually leaking oil. If the well is somehow still leaking this would have major ramifications for BP, but also the wider industry that is gearing up for further drilling...Continue reading '“Very Close Match” Between New Spill And BP’s Well'.
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 FuelSave wakens memories of Formula Shell debacle Aug 28th , 2011 by John Donovan By John Donovan Here we are again in the midst of a major Shell advertising campaign with huge colour adverts in the UK national press for a new Shell wonder fuel , this time invented by Shell Fuel Scientists” : Its called Shell FuelSave Shell’s Fuel Scientists are being rather cagey about the secret formula Shell Efficiency improvers inviting drivers to guess what they do . 8221 Doesn’t Shell know The adverts claim : Our Fuel Scientists are more than satisfied with the results” described as a remarkable benefit . 8221 What results What benefit There is
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 fuels Syrian Tanks Aug 27th , 2011 by John Donovan By John Donovan SHELL IS A MAJOR SHAREHOLDER , PARTNER , OWNER AND MANAGEMENT PARTICIPANT IN A COMPANY SUPPLYING THE FUEL FOR SYRIAN TANKS USED TO CRUSH THE UPRISING On Wednesday 24 August 2011, I sent an email to Mr Michiel Brandjes , Company Secretary General Counsel Corporate , Royal Dutch Shell . Plc I asked him whether an email sent earlier that same day to a third party , purportedly by Graham Henley , General Manager of Syria Shell Petroleum Development B.V . was authentic . I supplied a . copy I also advised him of an allegation that Shell fuel has been used in Syrian army
Even when times are supposedly good, neither society nor the environment can take the strain of an ever-expanding economy
George Monbiot – UK Guardian
Monday 22 August 2011 22.00 BST
How much of this is real? How much of the economic growth of the past 60 years? Of the wealth and comfort, the salaries and pensions that older [...]
¨Will peak oil be the guest or the spectre at the feast?”
That is the question asked by the International Energy Agency on page 48 of the introduction to their “World Energy Outlook 2010″, launched on 9 November 2010.
We would reply that the party is over! The IEA demonstrate this themselves clearly in their Figure 3.19 [...]
Numerous recent polls reveal that the American people believe that Congress is more responsive to their campaign donors than their own constituents. In addition, Americans of all affiliations clearly favor ending oil industry handouts. The question is, whose side is Fred Upton on: the American people’s or Big Oil’s? Rep. Upton is Big Oil’s biggest...Continue reading 'Fred Upton: Big Oil’s Superman in SuperCongress'.
A recent report by the World Economic Forum on the future of the gas markets has highlighted the revolution that is currently happening in this sector. The report started by saying: “What a difference a few years can make in one of the world’s major energy markets. Advances in the production of unconventional gas –...<br /Continue reading 'Will Europe Heed Warnings over Fracking?'.
Over the last few months I have been working with Friends of the Earth Europe looking at the extensive lobbying by the Canadian government over the tar sands in Europe. What we uncovered is that over the last two years we have seen a concerted lobbying campaign by the Canadian and Albertan governments to undermine...Continue reading 'Canada’s “Dirty Lobby Diary” Exposed'.
Often in the 24 hour news world, stories are reported at such a rate that no one ever takes a step back to see if they are joined up. No one ever seems to ask searching questions to see if two different stories are connected and therefore what are the consequences of that connection. You...Continue reading 'From the Delta to the Sea'.
Ever get tired of those cheezy ads from oil companies or really fired up over ‘independent’ research that asserts that everything you thought was great about alternative enery sources turns out to be a myth? Well Erik Curren over at Transition Voice sums it up nicely on this cross-post. Thanks Erik… Every time I’m tempted...Continue reading 'Jilted by another smooth-talking oilman'.