• Sakhalin Energy’s 2011 Sales Rose by $1 Billion, Vedomosti Says

    Updated: 2012-02-08 16:15:16
    , 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 Sakhalin Energy’s 2011 Sales Rose by 1 Billion , Vedomosti Says Feb 8th , 2012 by John Donovan By Yuliya Fedorinova Feb 8, 2012 4:53 AM GMT Sakhalin Energy Russia s liquefied natural-gas producer , increased its revenue by 1 billion last year after raising prices , Vedomosti reported today , citing Chief Executive Officer Andrey . Galayev The project may break even as soon as this spring rather than in 2013 or 2014, as initially planned , Galayev told the Moscow-based . newspaper OAO Gazprom has a 50 percent stake in Sakhalin . Energy To contact the reporter on this story : Yuliya Fedorinova in Moscow at yfedorinova bloomberg.net To

  • Motiva Port Arthur refinery hit by power outage -sources

    Updated: 2012-02-08 16:15:16
    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 Motiva Port Arthur refinery hit by power outage sources Feb 8th , 2012 by John Donovan Tue Feb 7, 2012 6:27pm GMT HOUSTON Feb 7 Reuters Motiva Enterprises’ 285,000 barrel per day bpd Port Arthur , Texas , refinery was hit by a brief power interruption on Tuesday morning , according to sources familiar with refinery . operations Among the units affected by the power interruption was the refinery’s gasoline-producing fluidic catalytic cracking unit , the sources . said The Motiva Port Arthur refinery is a 50-50 joint venture between Saudi Refining and Shell Oil Co , Royal Dutch Shell Plc’s U.S . . unit Thomson Reuters 2012 All rights reserved

  • Keystone XL benefits from taxpayer subsidies

    Updated: 2012-02-08 10:25:40
     Sen. Mitch McConnell claimed recently that the Keystone XL Pipeline “doesn’t require a penny of our taxpayer money all the president has to do is approve it.” But our research reveals many places that the pipeline project benefits from many taxpayer subsidies. The refineries that are linked to the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline as...Continue reading 'Keystone XL benefits from taxpayer subsidies'.

  • The Hidden Danger of the Gas Boom

    Updated: 2012-02-08 09:24:46
    The hype surrounding the US gas industry continues to grow as America moves ever closer to its cherished dream of energy independence. Yesterday, Bloomberg reported that “the U.S. is the closest it has been in almost 20 years to achieving energy self-sufficiency, a goal the nation has been pursuing since the 1973 Arab oil embargo...Continue reading 'The Hidden Danger of the Gas Boom'.

  • Debate continues on Big Oil’s big profits

    Updated: 2012-02-08 00:12:41
    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 Debate continues on Big Oil’s big profits Feb 8th , 2012 by John Donovan February 7, 2012, 2:23 p.m The five so-called super major” oil companies Exxon Mobil Royal Dutch Shell ConocoPhillips Chevron and BP have just wrapped up their fourth quarter earnings reports , but not without inspiring disdain over how they made those billions in profits and over what they were doing with . them Under the title Big Oil’s Banner Year , 8221 the Washington-based Center for American Progress on Tuesday , for example , pointed out that the five firms made a fourth-quarter record 137 billion in profits while producing less oil than they did the previous .

  • Rise In Oil Thefts Threatens Nigerian Output

    Updated: 2012-02-08 00:12:39
    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 Rise In Oil Thefts Threatens Nigerian Output Feb 8th , 2012 by John Donovan Published February 07, 2012 Dow Jones Newswires IBADAN , Nigeria Royal Dutch Shell PLC’s RDSA unit in Nigeria has said a rise in thefts of crude from its new Nembe Creek pipeline is jeopardizing the production and export of oil in Nigeria’s Niger . Delta Currently 140,000 barrels of oil per day is transported along the pipeline that takes most of the Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Ltd . 8217 s and third party crude oil production in Eastern Swamp operations to the Bonny Terminal in the Niger . Delta The level of crude theft at Nembe Creek Trunkline

  • The big, the bad and the subsidized

    Updated: 2012-02-07 22:30:24
      $135 billion Not the 2010 GDP of Hungary or Kuwait, no it’s slightly more than either of those. In fact, if it was a figure for the 2010 GDP of a nation, it would rank 54th, between Kuwait and Ukraine. It is in fact the combined 2011 profits of the five largest international oil...Continue reading 'The big, the bad and the subsidized'.

  • 6 Gulf States Break Relations with Assad; Will Recognize Free Syria Army on Feb 11

    Updated: 2012-02-07 18:24:33
    The Gulf Cooperation Council, consisting of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, Oman, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, just severed its relations with the Syrian government. The six Arab countries are removing their ambassadors from Syria and kicking out Syria’s ambassadors. This big development overshadows something even more significant. A Bahraini official told a Saudi newspaper [...]

  • It’s Time for the U.S. to Back the Free Syria Army

    Updated: 2012-02-07 17:11:38
    For decades, the government of Syria has been one of the worst enemies of the U.S. and one of the best allies of Iran and terrorist groups, including Al-Qaeda elements. It has chemical and biological weapons and pursues nuclear weapons. It did everything it could to turn Iraq into a mess, killing countless American soldiers and innocent Iraqis. We now have the best and [...]

  • Mystery of how Shell escaped Brent Bravo criminal prosecution

    Updated: 2012-02-07 16:11:05
    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 Mystery of how Shell escaped Brent Bravo criminal prosecution Feb 7th , 2012 by John Donovan The Sunday Times article may go some way to illuminating the mystery of how Shell miraculously escaped criminal prosecution . By John Donovan An article published in Scotland by The Sunday Times may help to explain why the health and safety division of the Crown office and Procurator Fiscal Service decided not to prosecute Royal Dutch Shell for alleged criminal offences arising from an explosion on the Brent Bravo . platform In 2005, Shell was fined a record 900,000 at Stonehaven Sheriff Court , for a series of safety failings on the platform which

  • Shell CEO Peter Voser €6.75 million salary plus €3.5 million bonus

    Updated: 2012-02-07 16:11:03
    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 CEO Peter Voser 6.75 million salary plus 3.5 million bonus Feb 6th , 2012 by John Donovan I doubt that Mr . Voser will emulate Network Rail bosses in the face of a widespread public backlash against Fat Cat bonuses and waive his Fat Cat bonus , as they have , to improve safety Fat . chance By John Donovan According to a report filed on Monday with the U.S . Securities Exchange Commission , Peter Voser , the Swiss Chief Executive of Royal Dutch Shell Plc received 6.75 million in salary for 2011 plus a bonus of 3.5 million , a combined total of over 10 million . Voser wants half of his bonus 1.75 million paid in shares . The full

  • Shell raises alarm over oil theft

    Updated: 2012-02-07 16:11:01
    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 raises alarm over oil theft Feb 6th , 2012 by John Donovan FEBRUARY 6, 2012 LAGOS AFP Shell raised the alarm on Monday over repeated damage to a key pipeline in southern Nigeria by what it said were thieves seeking to siphon off crude for sale on the lucrative black . market The Anglo-Dutch oil giant said the Nembe Creek Trunkline had been hit by an increased number of attacks by thieves barely 16 months after the old line was replaced due to repeated sabotage attacks . While highly organised crude theft locally called bunkering” has long been a major problem in Nigeria , Africa’s largest oil producer , authorities have warned that

  • Shell, UOP Among Companies Put on Blacklist by Iran, Mehr Says

    Updated: 2012-02-07 16:10:59
    , , 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 , UOP Among Companies Put on Blacklist by Iran , Mehr Says Feb 6th , 2012 by John Donovan By Ladane Nasseri Feb 6, 2012 4:10 PM GMT Iranian Oil Minister Rostam Qasemi has ordered five European companies , including Royal Dutch Shell Plc , to be put on a blacklist for failing to meet their commitments in the nation’s refinery projects , Mehr . reported Shell and UOP LLC , a unit of U.S . based Honeywell International Inc . were among the companies named in the report published today by the state-run news agency Qasemi ordered the National Iranian Oil Products Refining and Distribution Co . to halt foreign purchases of license in

  • Shell, Cosan’s Sugar Venture Will Expand Output 9% in New Season

    Updated: 2012-02-07 16:10:57
    , 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 , Cosan’s Sugar Venture Will Expand Output 9 in New Season Feb 6th , 2012 by John Donovan FEBRUARY 06, 2012 By Isis Almeida Feb . 6 Bloomberg Raizen , a joint venture of Royal Dutch Shell Plc and Cosan Industria Comercio SA in Brazil , will process 9 percent more sugar cane in the season starting in April than a year earlier , commercial director Ivan Melo . said Raizen’s cane processing in the 2012-13 season will be 57.6 million metric tons , with sugar output up about 15 percent to 4.3 million tons and ethanol supply about 10 percent higher at 2.4 billion liters 634 million gallons Melo said in an interview at the Kingsman

  • Top Muslim Brotherhood Cleric Orders Boycott of Russia & China

    Updated: 2012-02-07 09:29:26
    Russia and China have pretty much guaranteed that the future governments of Iran and Syria aren’t going to look upon them too kindly. By consistently backing these oppressive regimes, they have caused a backlash among the people. Videos and photos have come out of Iran of protesters chanting “Death to Russia” and stomping on the [...]

  • Royal Dutch Shell downgraded

    Updated: 2012-02-06 17:43:30
    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 downgraded Feb 6th , 2012 by John Donovan Extract from Today’s Top Equity Ratings Changes” By Andrea Tryphonides Another week begins and we are here to guide you through the top rating changes in Europe : Monday Firstly Credit Suisse has downgraded Royal Dutch Shell to neutral from outperform following the company’s fourth quarter results released on Feb . 2. The brokerage highlights lower 2012-15 free cash flow estimates , cut by 22 due to higher capital expenditure . Also , it sees little potential for Shell to re-rate on multiples given sector-average free cash and dividend growth in the medium . term COMPLETE SOURCE

  • Arctic “should remain off-limits to drilling”

    Updated: 2012-02-06 11:31:10
    For a long time now many environmental organisations and front-line communities have warned about the dangers of drilling in the Arctic. Even before the Exxon Valdez scarred Alaska in 1989 people warned that drilling in the high north can have terrible consequences. And there was one major lesson from the Exxon Valdez: oil is much...Continue reading 'Arctic “should remain off-limits to drilling”'.

  • Proxy War in the Middle East is About to Flare Up

    Updated: 2012-02-03 20:17:29
    A proxy war between Sunni and Shia Muslims, which could dramatically further destabilize the Middle East, may be about to erupt, sources are reporting. It would pit Iran, Syria’s regime and Hezbollah on one side and Turkey, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, other Arab states and Syrian rebel forces on the other may, according to a report [...]

  • India Won’t Join EU Sanctions on Iran

    Updated: 2012-01-31 20:26:49
    India has announced, despite the European Union and United States increasing sanctions on the Iranian regime, that they will continue, along with China, to import oil from the belligerent Persians, who have threatened to shut down the Straits of Hormuz, and are moving towards obtaining a nuclear weapon. Their reasons are supposedly based on economics, [...]

  • EU: Fracking Laws Are Adequate, For Now

    Updated: 2012-01-31 10:31:58
    In a decision that will both dismay and worry environmental campaigners and communities facing fracking across Europe, the European commission has concluded that existing laws are adequate to cover the controversial drilling technique. A new report undertaken for the Commission by the Belgian law firm Philippe & Partners, argues that there is no need for...Continue reading 'EU: Fracking Laws Are Adequate, For Now'.

  • The Best Bill Oil Money Can Buy

    Updated: 2012-01-31 01:39:58
    Earlier today, forty-four Senators introduced legislation to approve the Keystone XL pipeline. This bill would would approve the Keystone XL pipeline despite the Obama Administration’s rejection of its permit following months of intensifying protest against it and numerous studies revealing its vastly inflated economic impact. Our colleagues at Public Campaign and 350.org revealed that those...Continue reading 'The Best Bill Oil Money Can Buy'.

  • TransCanada “Violating Laws” Over KXL Jobs Claim

    Updated: 2012-01-30 10:37:12
    Later today the Republican Senator John Hoeven will try to introduce legislation seeking to bypass President Barack Obama and empower Congress to approve the highly controversial Keystone XL pipeline. Hoeven’s bill, that would seek to take control of the Keystone decision, looks like a political non-starter.  To become law it would have to be approved...Continue reading 'TransCanada “Violating Laws” Over KXL Jobs Claim'.

  • U.S. Stepping into Jihad in Sudan?

    Updated: 2012-01-28 15:19:13
    Sources are reporting that Americans should expect to be in the bull’s-eye of jihad, once again, after Islamist leaders and terrorist groups have been quoted saying they are likely to oppose any foreign forces intervening in Sudan, according to a report by Ryan Mauro in Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin. And Obama administration officials have confirmed [...]

  • Expect Panic and Revenge from Iran Over Oil Embargo

    Updated: 2012-01-26 18:28:26
    It took far too long, but tough sanctions on Iran have finally arrived. On Monday, the European Union approved an oil embargo on Iran that will take full effect in July. Other countries are reducing oil imports from Iran. For a government that derives 85% of its revenue from oil exports and is already teetering [...]

  • One Dollar In, Fifty-Nine Out

    Updated: 2012-01-26 08:16:32
    You can SHARE this infographic on Facebook. What if you were in Vegas, and a friend told you there was a slot machine in the corner that was giving out $59 for every $1 that was put in?  You’d think the machine was broken, and that it was rigged. What if an investment advisor told...Continue reading 'One Dollar In, Fifty-Nine Out'.

  • 3 Reasons Gingrich is Electable; 3 Reasons Romney is Electable

    Updated: 2012-01-25 17:01:23
    FrontPage Magazine had Ben Shapiro and I each argue in favor of Romney and Gingrich’s electability, with me arguing in favor of the former. I’ll be writing another article in favor of Gingrich for PJ Media in the coming days. My three reasons arguing for Romney’s electability were the polls (he’s much stronger in every [...]

  • More with Less Scaling Sustainable Consumption and Resource Efficiency World Economic Forum-More wit

    Updated: 2012-01-20 14:01:33
    : : Print Download PDF Embed More with Less : Scaling Sustainable Consumption and Resource Efficiency This report focuses on how consumption can be made more sustainable through decoupling growth from environmental impact at the scale and speed required . It builds on four years of engagement by the World Economic Forum with leading businesses around the issue of sustainable consumption . Through this engagement with chief executive officers , business leaders and experts , the report aims to answer six key : questions What are the key trends in sustainable consumption What is the size of the opportunity for countries , companies and consumers What are the barriers to scaling existing models of sustainable consumption What does getting to scale look like What new solutions are needed to

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