Drumbeat: October 31, 2012
Updated: 2012-10-31 21:43:23
: The Oil Drum Discussions about Energy and Our Future Tech Talk Global Crude Oil and Iran The Oil Drum The Big Deal About U.S . Energy Self-Sufficiency Drumbeat : October 29, 2012 DrumBeat Drumbeat : October 31, 2012 Posted by Leanan on October 31, 2012 10:26am Analysis Does U.S . shale mean cheap global oil by 2020 Reuters Does the rise of U.S . shale oil mean fuel buyers can look forward to a multi-year period of crude price decline Or is oil destined for new record highs above 150 a barrel The question is dividing energy analysts who are split on whether or not shale and other predominantly North American unconventional supply like Canadian oil sands will be enough to comfortably meet an increase in global fuel demand led by emerging markets to 2020. That is a shift from the anguished
This week, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) published a new tool to address the growing health risks associated with climate change. The “Atlas of Human Health and Climate” explores ...
From our Shell News Archive Sunday 31 October, 2004 The fallout from the Shell reserves fraud continues… The Independent On Sunday (UK): Business View: Shell’s real location problem is finding more black stuff: “The misreporting of reserves scandal showed all the worst Shell traits – secrecy, haughtiness, inertia.”: “So what’s the hurry? Was it because [...]
October 30, 2012 By: Anne Seccombe Dole is the target of a campaign by grassroots activist organisation Sum Of Us, to pressure the company to withdraw its support from the amicus brief it filed on Shell’s behalf in the case of Shell vs. Kiobel, currently before the United States Supreme Court. Sumofus.org sent out an [...]
Cronyism is partiality to long-standing friends, especially by appointing them to positions of authority, regardless of their qualifications. Posting on our Shell Blog by a regular contributor: Golden Triangle Watchman” Re the Motiva article, so true…..How prophetic that the picture of Voser and the senior execs are sitting there opening a valve at the ceremony…. [...]
October 30, 2012 Oil giant Shell was fined $80,000 on Monday for lapses in workplace safety that led to a 32-hour fire at the company’s Pulau Bukom oil refinery in September last year. Court papers stated that while draining a pipeline, its contractors had used a method that allowed flammable gases to accumulate in the [...]
29 October 2012 Leaks in oil pipes in Nigeria were allowed to flow for 10 weeks before Shell came to the site to stop them. © Amnesty International Audrey Gaughran, Director of Amnesty International’s Africa Programme For decades the oil industry in Nigeria’s Niger Delta has caused widespread pollution of land and water, damaging people’s [...]
The company had earlier pleaded guilty to failing to take reasonably practicable measures to ensure workers’ safety… AsiaOne: Monday, Oct 29, 2012 SINGAPORE – Shell was fined $80,000 for its role in a fire that broke out at its Pulau Bukom Refinery on Sep 28, 2011. The company had earlier pleaded guilty to failing to [...]
Lorne Stockman While Chevron’s Richmond refinery has been making the news lately with a very visible incident, our attention has been drawn to less noticed recent events in America’s biggest refining center on the Gulf Coast, where what was to become the country’s largest refinery also ran into a spot of trouble. You’d think that [...]
Growing global demand for energy continues to strain resource availability, which has spurred increased exploration for unconventional oil and gas, as well as accelerated exploitation of traditional fossil fuels. Renewable energy has increased exponentially worldwide over the past decade to combat these facts.
The Middle East and North Africa (MENA), ...