• Royal Dutch Shell, Tony Blair and Muammar Gaddafi

    Updated: 2011-10-31 16:51:18
    , 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 , Tony Blair and Muammar Gaddafi Oct 31st , 2011 by John Donovan From pages 42 43 of Royal Dutch Shell and its sustainability troubles” Background report to the Erratum of Shell’s Annual Report 2010 The report was made on behalf of Milieudefensie Friends of the Earth Netherlands Author : Albert ten Kate : May 2011. In May 2005, Shell signed an agreement to start a joint venture with the Libyan National Oil Corporation . The joint venture would revamp and expand the existing liquified natural gas LNG Plant at Marsa el-Brega on the Libyan coast . It would also explore for gas and subsequently develop five areas totalling

  • Irregularities in a Royal Dutch Shell tender process

    Updated: 2011-10-31 16:51:18
    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 Irregularities in a Royal Dutch Shell tender process Oct 31st , 2011 by John Donovan By John Donovan It is interesting to read the current articles 1 2 from the Brunei Times highlighted by a contributor to our Shell Blog . They concern allegations of irregularities in a Shell tender process . Some years ago I stumbled across evidence in Shell’s own internal documents of a rigged contract tender process involving several Shell executives , led by Andrew Lazenby , a then Shell National Promotions executive . I was in the process of suing Shell in the High Court for the fourth time Shell had already settled the first three cases when I found

  • Asia LNG prices to continue rising-Shell CEO Voser

    Updated: 2011-10-31 16:51:18
    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 Asia LNG prices to continue rising-Shell CEO Voser Oct 31st , 2011 by John Donovan Mon Oct 31, 2011 6:07am GMT Oct 31 Reuters Oil major Royal Dutch Shell Plc RDSa.L expects prices of liquefied natural gas LNG in Asia to continue rising and refining margins to stay under pressure in 2012, its chief executive said on . Monday LNG prices are rising and we see this continuing , 8221 Peter Voser told Reuters on the sidelines of the Singapore International Energy Week SIEW Shell is working on new supply sources and that could influence prices in the longer term . The oil major has bought a marine terminal on Canada’s Pacific Coast as a possible

  • TheOilDrum.com Archive 2005-2010

    Updated: 2011-10-31 16:51:16
    The Oil Drum Discussions about Energy and Our Future The Energy Trap The Oil Drum Tech Talk The Niobrara , the Tuscaloosa and the Chattanooga Shales TheOilDrum.com Archive 2005-2010 Posted by nate hagens on October 31, 2011 10:05am Topic : Site news During the past 6 years , TheOilDrum.com has hosted analysis and discussion surrounding the possibility and implications of a near term peak in global oil production and importance of energy to society in general . Out of the 7,000 articles posted here all searchable by keyword in upper left the list below comprises what each author considered some of their most relevant . content The list is in alphabetical order , by last name of TOD contributor . Click on the author's name to go to their list of . articles List of Authors Ugo Bardi Arthur E

  • Drumbeat: October 31, 2011

    Updated: 2011-10-31 16:51:16
    : The Oil Drum Discussions about Energy and Our Future The Energy Trap The Oil Drum TheOilDrum.com Archive 2005-2010 Drumbeat : October 29, 2011 DrumBeat Drumbeat : October 31, 2011 Posted by Leanan on October 31, 2011 9:55am Asia faces rocky road in securing energy needs Reuters Governments in emerging Asian economies will struggle to secure their rising energy needs as rapidly swelling demand in leading consumers China and India outpaces growth in supplies , which is likely to keep oil prices over 100 a barrel . High fuel costs for importers are threatening their economies as they grapple with rising subsidy bills and inflation . The fuel burden , with oil imports costing around 5 percent of gross domestic product , is weighing on economic growth , said Richard Jones , deputy executive

  • Small Time – Urbanite Baltimore

    Updated: 2011-10-31 16:46:55
    Small TimeUrbanite BaltimoreOr, as put by James Howard Kunstler, the peak-oil prophet (whom Tumber cites here and there in her book): "The world is about to become a larger place again." So how do these small cities, long derided as provincial and irrelevant, prepare for the … More: continued here

  • Report highlights alternative transportation options for Northwest – BCLocalNews

    Updated: 2011-10-31 16:46:55
    Report highlights alternative transportation options for NorthwestBCLocalNewsShe added that she believes peak oil — the point where global extraction of oil hits its peak — is coming within the decade, while companies like Enbridge and the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers say it may be as long as 150 years. … More: continued here

  • Living with 7 billion people – Otago Daily Times

    Updated: 2011-10-31 16:46:55
    Living with 7 billion peopleOtago Daily TimesEnergy generation and use ties in with all this too; the scaling of peak oil only heightens and hastens the need to develop cheaper and more sustainable sources. Entrepreneurship, government policy, educational programmes to engender in the population …and more » More: continued here

  • Carbon Fear And Loathing In Riyadh – The Market Oracle

    Updated: 2011-10-31 16:46:55
    Carbon Fear And Loathing In RiyadhThe Market OracleA few of them, even inside Saudi Arabia, can also worry about Peak Oil. What happens After Oil? The basic problem is that thinking is gridlocked in every possible sense of the term, and the one-only "liberal economy model" has no solution at all. … More: continued here

  • Building your town from scratch – a Bush Telegraph hypothetical Part 2 – ABC Local

    Updated: 2011-10-31 16:46:55
    Building your town from scratch – a Bush Telegraph hypothetical Part 2ABC LocalThen challenges were set involving technology delivery, carbon tax, peak oil, food security and climate change. Listen to the online audio to find out. Note – Circumstances prevented the invited indigenous member of the panel from attending. …and more » More: continued here

  • Auto Sales – The Next Bubble [NBC 10-28-2011]

    Updated: 2011-10-31 16:46:55
    YouTube Video Link   Auto Sales – The Next Bubble [NBC 10-28-2011]Peak oil is the point in time when the maximum rate of global petroleum extraction is reached, after which the rate of production enters terminal decline. This concept is based on the observed production rates of individual oil wells, projected reserves and the combined [...]

  • AMERICA’S PREDICAMENT: THE 7th BILLION HUMAN ON EARTH – NewsWithViews.com

    Updated: 2011-10-31 16:46:55
    AMERICA'S PREDICAMENT: THE 7th BILLION HUMAN ON EARTHNewsWithViews.comThe biggest question: as we face water shortages, Peak Oil energy exhaustion, resource depletion, accelerating air pollution and quality of life decaying in our cities—why aren't Americans concerned and why aren't American leaders taking any steps … More: continued here

  • 5 Myths About Energy – Motley Fool UK

    Updated: 2011-10-31 16:46:55
    5 Myths About EnergyMotley Fool UKUltimately, Yergin disagrees with the peak oil adherents, those who believe we're running out of oil. He writes, "[T]he world has decades of further production growth before flattening out into a plateau — perhaps sometime around mid-century — at …and more » More: continued here

  • 5 Myths About Energy in America – DailyFinance

    Updated: 2011-10-31 16:46:55
    5 Myths About Energy in AmericaDailyFinanceUltimately, Yergin disagrees with the peak oil adherents, those who believe we're running out of oil. He writes, "[T]he world has decades of further production growth before flattening out into a plateau — perhaps sometime around mid-century — at …and more » More: continued here

  • 11 challenges facing 7 billion super-consumers – Mongabay.com

    Updated: 2011-10-31 16:46:55
    Mongabay.com 11 challenges facing 7 billion super-consumersMongabay.comPeak oil has become a popular term over the past decade for good reason. Since society has lagged in transitioning to a fossil fuel-free economy, energy companies are scouring ever-more distant places (the Amazon, the Arctic, and the deep ocean) for …and more » More: continued here

  • Another Bankrupt Obama Investment

    Updated: 2011-10-31 15:40:08
    Via Business Week  Beacon Power Corp., an energy- storage company that received $43 million in backing from the U.S. program that supported failed solar-panel maker Solyndra LLC, filed for bankruptcy after struggling to raise private financing. The money-losing company, which makes flywheels that manage energy moving through a power grid, had sought to avoid the [...]

  • Shell “Threatens” the EU with Long-Term Exit

    Updated: 2011-10-31 11:06:57
    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'.

  • Malcolm Brinded sucking up to the Chinese government

    Updated: 2011-10-30 03:50:25
    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 Malcolm Brinded sucking up to the Chinese government Oct 29th , 2011 by John Donovan Following the demise of his friend Gaddafi Royal Dutch Shell Executive Director Malcolm Brinded center figure in photo immediately above has turned his attention to the Chinese government . Jia Qinglin Front , R same photo chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference CPPCC listens to the introduction of a senior manager as he visits the research and development center of Royal Dutch Shell in The Hague , the Netherlands , Oct . 28, 2011. Xinhua Li Tao SOURCE Posted in : China GoogleNews Human Rights Malcolm

  • FAO report: The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2011

    Updated: 2011-10-29 11:40:30
    Attempting to quantify the depth of damage to global food security by the food crisis of 2006-2008, UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) released its annual “The State of Food Insecurity in the World” report.  The theme of the report coincides with the recent World Food ...

  • Shell looks to North Sea as European investment cut

    Updated: 2011-10-29 11:40:27
    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 looks to North Sea as European investment cut Oct 28th , 2011 by John Donovan MARK WILLIAMSON 28 Oct 2011 ROYAL Dutch Shell said it would curb investment in Europe where it expects the economy to stagnate , but made clear it would still spend in the North . Sea Announcing bumper profits driven by high oil prices , the oil and gas giant said it will shift a growing share of its investment to places like Qatar , where the launch of huge projects will underpin growth for . years Noting that Shell only devotes 15 of its investment to Europe , chief financial officer Simon Henry said the continent’s share will shrink amid concerns about

  • OIL GIANT ROYAL DUTCH SHELL PROFITS BONANZA

    Updated: 2011-10-28 18:30:23
    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 OIL GIANT ROYAL DUTCH SHELL PROFITS BONANZA Oct 28th , 2011 by John Donovan By David Cralk : Friday October 28,2011 OIL giant Royal Dutch Shell unveiled a doubling in profits yesterday thanks to higher prices as it vowed to slash European investment because of economic . fears Chief executive Peter Voser said the group was making good progress as it reported third-quarter profits of 7.2billion 4.5billion for the period to the end of September up from 2.1billion last . time It said oil prices , often soaring above 100 a barrel and new projects particularly in Canada and Qatar , had been the main drivers offsetting a 2 per cent dip in

  • SHELL’S PROFITS HIT £49m A DAY

    Updated: 2011-10-28 18:30:22
    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 PROFITS HIT 49m A DAY Oct 28th , 2011 by John Donovan By STEVE HAWKES , Business Editor : Friday 28 October 2011 12.5bn cash in the bank 90,000 staff around the world 3m output in millions of barrels a day SOARING oil and gas prices have sent profits surging to 49million a day at . SHELL The energy giant made a whopping 4.5billion over the three months to October DOUBLE the same period a year . ago Yesterday’s figures come as drivers are being forced off the road by soaring petrol prices as the cost of oil hits record . highs AA chiefs claim a quarter of motorists are cutting . back AA president Edmund King said motorists will not

  • Friday Morning Test

    Updated: 2011-10-28 15:49:55
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  • Thoughts Observations

    Updated: 2011-10-28 14:36:00
    skip to main skip to sidebar Thoughts Observations A Blog on our future Supported by : aarondunlap.net Laredo's Friday , October 28, 2011 Posted by Aaron Dunlap at 8:36 AM 0 comments : Post a Comment Older Post Home Subscribe to : Post Comments Atom News Loading . Menu Home PeakOil.com Peak Search Peak Discussion Peak TV Peak Wiki Peak Portal Peak Downloads Peak Gear Peak Links Peak Archives Register TextLinks Tutoring Circuit Breaker Resources Tutoring Circuit Breaker Peak Oil News- Forums Loading . Feed Subscribe in a reader Peak Oil News Loading . Search Links Aaron Dunlap Energy Bulletin Loading . The Oil Drum Discussions about Energy and Our Future Loading . Linkedin Blog Archive 2011 3 October 1 April 1 The Impact of Fathers on Psychological Well-Being March 1 The effects absent

  • Shell is another country: they do things differently there

    Updated: 2011-10-28 01:20:42
    : 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 Shell is another country : they do things differently there Oct 28th , 2011 by John Donovan The oil giant handles budgets and projects of a size that would daunt nation states . The difference is that it need answer to no one and it’s running a huge surplus Posted by Terry Macalister Thursday 27 October 2011 13.08 BST The Guardian Shell : ticking like a Swiss watch’ . Photograph : Leon Neal AFP Getty Images What European leader would not want to swap places with Shell boss Peter Voser He has just doubled the company’s profits in the third quarter , amassed 30bn 18.7bn of cash over the last nine months and is now buying back shares at the

  • North Sea oil spill risk ‘unacceptably high’, claims European commission

    Updated: 2011-10-28 01:20:41
    , 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 North Sea oil spill risk unacceptably high’ , claims European commission Oct 27th , 2011 by John Donovan Commission says new laws needed to prevent another Deepwater Horizon , as Shell and Exxon reveal massive profits Terry Macalister guardian.co.uk Thursday 27 October 2011 13.34 BST Shell made 7.2bn in profits in the third quarter . Photograph : Royal Dutch Shell EPA The European commission has warned that the likelihood of a Deepwater Horizon-type accident in the North Sea remains unacceptably high” as it outlined new laws to counter the . danger The moves have angered the UK government and offshore oil industry while threatening to put

  • Thought on Income Inequality

    Updated: 2011-10-28 00:34:24
    If the very rich got that way through special access to government power, then why is the solution to tax them more, and not just to reduce government power? And if the very rich got that way through hard work and innovation, then why the hell are we proposing to take resources out of these [...]

  • The True Cost of Oil

    Updated: 2011-10-26 20:55:14
    From the desk of John Thomas The Mad Hedge Fund Trader Monday, October 17,, 2011 I received some questions last week on my recent solar pieces as to whether I minded paying more money for “green” power. My answer is “hell no,” and I’ll tell you why. My annual electric bill comes to $1,500 a year. Since the [...]

  • The peak oil crisis: contagion

    Updated: 2011-10-26 17:55:44
    Published by Falls Church News-Press on Wed, 10/12/2011 – 08:00 Original article: http://www.fcnp.com/commentary/national/10285-the-peak-oil-crisis-contagion.html by Tom Whipple With every passing day it is becoming more apparent that the crisis of the depletion of cheap oil has become deeply enmeshed in the European debt crises. The sequence of events is well known. Greece’s economy is imploding; the government can no longer [...]

  • Britain Backs Canadian Bullying Over Tar Sands

    Updated: 2011-10-26 10:38:16
    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'.

  • Talking Dirty in the President’s Ear

    Updated: 2011-10-25 10:02:43
    The revolving door between the Obama Administration and TransCanada keeps on spinning, despite a decision on the hugely controversial pipeline just weeks away. Let’s not forget the first revolving door story, which revolves around Paul Elliott, who is TransCanada’s lobbyist promoting Keystone XL. Elliot worked for Hilary Clinton during her 2008 campaign.  Recently released embarrassing...Continue reading 'Talking Dirty in the President’s Ear'.

  • Subsidy Magnets

    Updated: 2011-10-24 18:39:45
    From AutoGreenBlog Output of cellulosic ethanol will surge starting in 2013, according to the U.S.’ largest corn-based biofuel production firm, Poet LLC. Poet says 2013 marks the start of commercial-scale cellulosic ethanol production in the U.S. and predicts its lone facility will “open the floodgates” for the advanced biofuel…. As Poet exec Greg Hartgraves points out, [...]

  • November 6th Tar Sands Action at the White House

    Updated: 2011-10-24 15:17:38
    On Sunday November 6 the Tar Sands Action will return to Washington DC to send an unmistakable message to the President. Exactly one year before the election, we want to encircle the whole White House to ask President Obama to reject Keystone XL and live up to his promise to free us from the tyranny...Continue reading 'November 6th Tar Sands Action at the White House'.

  • From selling cigarettes to dirty oil

    Updated: 2011-10-24 12:20:34
    For anyone who has watched the parody film “Thank you for smoking”, they would know that being a spin doctor for a tobacco company is one of the more dubious ethical career choices. If anyone had the inclination, there are thousands of internal tobacco industry documents online that show that the tobacco industry has systematically...Continue reading 'From selling cigarettes to dirty oil'.</span

  • 2011 World Oil Awards Keynote Address

    Updated: 2011-10-21 20:33:34
    The keynote address below was given by Bob Peebler, ION Geophysical CEO at the annual World Oil Awards on October 13, 2011. The theme of the event was: “A Decade of Achievement:  Recognizing innovations in the oil & gas industry”. It seems like only yesterday I received my award from World Oil over 10 years [...]

  • WORST OIL SPILLS OVER THE LAST 40 YEARS

    Updated: 2011-10-21 00:47:35
    By Agence France-Presse October 12, 2011 A dead shag soaked in oil from the grounded container ship Rena lies on Papamoa Beach near Tauranga on Oct. 12, 2011. Photograph by: BRADLEY AMBROSE, AFP/Getty Images PARIS – A container ship stuck on a New Zealand reef risks breaking up and releasing more oil into a pristine bay, escalating the [...]

  • Critical mass: World population hits 7 billion

    Updated: 2011-10-21 00:41:50
    October 3, 2011 Economist Lester Brown, in the latest book of his Plan B series, states that “socialism collapsed because it did not allow the market to tell the economic truth. Capitalism may collapse because it does not allow the market to tell the ecological truth.” In its frenzy for more consumers and an apparently equal [...]

  • Europe’s Green Energy Chaos

    Updated: 2011-10-20 17:41:55
    The European Union is wracked by sovereign debt, budget deficits, monetary weakness, slow economic growth, trade deficits with the Emerging economies, an ageing population, and mass unemployment – but it has the supposedly proud role of world leader in Green Energy Transition. The main goal of this is reducing dependence on fossil fuels and increasing [...]

  • Big Oil Buys Democratic Support for Keystone XL

    Updated: 2011-10-20 04:17:12
    Earlier today, twenty-two House Democrats sent a letter to President Obama expressing their support for the Keystone XL pipeline project.  The letter was announced in a press release from TransCanada.  Both the letter and the press release predictably recycle discredited arguments for Keystone XL on energy security and jobs. What TransCanada didn’t mention is that...Continue reading 'Big Oil Buys Democratic Support for Keystone XL'.

  • Shell Guilty Again?

    Updated: 2011-10-19 10:21:27
    Just over two years after the Wiwa versus Shell case was settled in a New York Court room, the US Supreme Court has given approval for another ground-breaking legal case against Shell to be heard. The lawsuit will consider whether corporations can be sued in U.S. courts for allegedly aiding human-rights abuses overseas. Amazingly, the...Continue reading 'Shell Guilty Again?'.

  • Senators Express “Serious Concern” Over KXL

    Updated: 2011-10-18 10:57:00
    Last week I blogged about the revelation that the US State Department had actually assigned an important Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) study of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline to a company with financial ties to the pipeline company itself, TransCanada. The final contractor chosen – Cardno Entrix – was recommended by TransCanada despite the fact...Continue reading 'Senators Express “Serious Concern” Over KXL'.

  • BP: Reprieved from Death Row

    Updated: 2011-10-17 10:45:52
    It’s been a good few days for BP. The company’s share price surged 5.1 per cent this morning after it was announced that Anadarko Petroleum will pay $4 billion to settle all claims for last year’s Gulf of Mexico oil spill. The US-based Anadarko Petroleum was a part-leaseholder of ill-fated Macondo well. As part of...Continue reading 'BP: Reprieved from Death Row'.

  • Rick Perry’s predictable energy plan

    Updated: 2011-10-14 08:39:47
    I wasn’t bowled over with surprise to hear news of Rick Perry’s energy plan today. I could have written it myself. The plan is a fossil fuel industry wish list. Open everything up and dismantle any regulation that might get in the way of digging, drilling, fracking and burning. It’s not really news. It wasn’t...Continue reading 'Rick Perry’s predictable energy plan'.

  • BC: Two-thirds don’t want pipeline twinned, poll finds

    Updated: 2011-10-11 22:46:27
    Only 31 per cent of British Columbians support the twinning of the Trans Mountain pipeline, which carries crude oil from northern Alberta to a terminal in Burnaby, according to a new poll. I think it’s time for government listen to the people and stop all pipeline expansion. VANCOUVER SUN OCTOBER 11, 2011 Only 31 per cent of [...]

  • New Zealand oil spill: conservationists warn of wildlife ‘tragedy’

    Updated: 2011-10-11 20:30:39
    Oil spill off the east coast of New Zealand threatens local penguins, whales, seals and seabirds Oliver Milman guardian.co.uk, Monday 10 October 2011 12.41 BST Conservationists have warned of an impending wildlife “tragedy” caused by an oil spill off the east coast of New Zealand, with populations of penguins, [...]

  • Song of the Spindle – Act like a Whale

    Updated: 2011-10-11 18:12:56
    Song Of the Spindle from Drew Christie on Vimeo. Why we humans need to sing and make more music to be in harmony with each other and our planet. Pun intended. Exercise your spindle. Thanks to Ben West for sending this to me.

  • ION’s Orca Installed on 50th Marine Seismic Vessel

    Updated: 2011-10-06 04:16:08
    On September 19, ION announced that it achieved a milestone 50th installation of its Orca Command and Control system, on BGP’s 12-streamer Prospector. Since its introduction just six years ago, Orca has been used to manage towed streamer seismic data acquisition operations on nearly half of all vessels in operation around the world. Orca recently [...]

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