Shell Corrib Gas Project Developments
Extracts from an article by Mary Carolan published on 11 March 2014 by The Irish Times under the headline: “Judge fast-tracks hearing of Corrib gas challenge”
A High Court judge yesterday granted an application from Shell E&P Ireland to fast- track the hearing of the latest legal action against the Corrib project and fixed a trial date on May 20th. The approach adopted by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to its decision-making relating to licensing the refinery was “nothing short of alarming and extraordinary”, Martin Harrington has claimed. Last October, Mr Harrington, Geesala, Ballina, Co Mayo, won, on consent of the EPA, an order quashing a different revised licence issued by the agency for the Shell gas terminal at Bellanaboy, arising from defects in relation to how the EPA carried out an environmental impact assessment concerning the terminal development. Now he has brought a judicial review challenge to the amendment to the different 2007 licence.
Extracts from a News Release issued by Mayo Shell to Sea Campaign on 11 March 2014
Shell to Sea today criticised the Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources for selecting Wood Mackenzie as their advisers on the “fitness-for-purpose” of Ireland’s current oil and gas fiscal terms. Shell to Sea also criticized the tendering process and the pro-oil industry press statements that have come from the Department in regard to this selection of advisers. Wood Mackenzie have extremely close connections to the oil and gas industry and have been writing reports for the oil companies on Corrib since 1998. They were further commissioned by Shell in 2003 to write a report on the Corrib Gas Project. While this report was confidential some of the taxation figures they quoted have since made their way into the public domain.
Lawmakers look into diesel smuggling and Shell Oil contract
Extracts from an article published by Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) 11 March 2014
At a regular session on Tuesday… the lawmakers agreed to the request by the State Audit Bureau to get more time to prepare its reports on the sticky issue of the smuggling of diesel fuel and on the contract signed between Shell Oil Co. and Kuwait Oil Co. …the Minister of Oil addressed the lawmakers today regarding the issue of the signed contact with Shell Oil Co, about which a number of lawmakers commented. The minister explained that the State Audit Bureau had thoroughly examined the details of the contract and recorded its reservations on it and had turned the entire issue over to the public prosecutor’s office.
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Shell starts commercial US output of new motor oil made from …
Hydrocarbon Processing-21 hours ago
Shell refers to its novel motor oil process as PurePlus technology, a patented process of converting natural gas into a clear base oil, which is …
Back in oil shale
Grand Junction Sentinel-10 hours ago
Shell, Chevron and American Shale Oil hold R&D leases in Rio Blanco County from the earlier round of leasing — including three leases in …
Big Oil’s Biggest Project in Decades Is About to Start Paying Off
Motley Fool-by Rupert Hargreaves-9 minutes ago
Indeed, the project is so large that it is taking a consortium of oil majors to develop it, including ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM ) , Royal Dutch Shell …
Review: Little Thing, Big Thing
Irish Times (blog)-2 hours ago
Like O’Kelly’s recent Fionnuala , his concern is the power of the oil industry, … But where Fionnuala made a punching bag out of a Shell Corrib …
Doubling Tar Sands production for Imperial War
CounterPunch-7 hours ago
Given the size of soon to be exploited gas and oil reserves within …. to existing operations elsewhere, such as at Shell’s Peace River plant, that …
Energy diplomacy with the Dana Gas chief executive
The National-2 hours ago
When Patrick Allman Ward decided last year to give up the security of a 30-year career with the oil major Shell for the chief executive’s job at …
Don’t send America’s natural gas to Ukraine
Politico-Mar 9, 2014
At current oil prices, the price of 1 mmbtu derived from oil is roughly $17. … which is why Royal Dutch Shell recently abandoned its $20 billion …
BP Is Biggest Loser Among US Government Contractors
Bloomberg-Mar 9, 2014
1 Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSA), based in the Hague, Netherlands … shows “the extraordinary circumstance of the Gulf oil spill that led to BP’s …
BP sees steep fall in US government fuel contracts
Hydrocarbon Processing-Mar 10, 2014
Hydrocarbon Processing-Mar 10, 2014
Åsgard gets power distribution units
Offshore Oil and Gas Magazine-20 hours ago
Bennu Oil and Gas has contracted Ceona to work on the Clipper … Shell has agreed to sell a 23% interest in the BC-10 deepwater …
Can BP Ever Fully Recover From the Deepwater Horizon Disaster?
Wall St. Cheat Sheet-by Dan Ritter-19 hours ago
Millions of gallons of oil polluted marshes, fisheries, and beaches from Louisiana … In 2012, BP slid to second place, behind Royal Dutch Shell …
CIA Cover Story Gives Birth to Deep Ocean Mining
DC Bureau-Mar 10, 2014
Hughes, scion of an oil equipment manufacturer, had a long history of backing … Lockheed’s partners included Royal Dutch Shell and Amoco.
Shell Banks on Runaway Climate Change
Triple Pundit-by Sarah Lozanova-Feb 24, 2014
Oil produced from Canadian tar sands are another example of Shell … on the road each year , according to a report by the State Department
Ukraine crisis is about Great Power oil, gas pipeline rivalry
The Guardian-Mar 5, 2014
Ukraine crisis is about Great Power oil, gas pipeline rivalry. Resource …. Similar deals had been struck already with Shell and ExxonMobil.
Cash All Gone
Extracts from an article by Jim Landers published on 10 March 2014 by The Dallas Morning News under the headline: “Petroleum project costs worldwide benefit Texas prospect”
The cost of developing the world’s largest oil and natural gas fields has reached heights straining the budgets of even the largest oil companies. Royal Dutch Shell, Exxon Mobil Corp., Chevron and Total are all looking to spend less than they did last year on projects that have broken the $50 billion threshold. In Kazakhstan, where several of the biggest oil companies are struggling to bring online the Kashagan oil field beneath the Caspian Sea, project cost estimates have gone as high as $187 billion, according to Offshore Technology.com. Even if the Kashagan field begins production later this year well below that peak cost estimate, it may still take decades before the partners (Exxon Mobil, Shell, Italy’s Eni, Total, KazMunaiGas, IPEX and China National Petroleum Corp.) recover their costs.
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Shell on land buying spree near proposed Pennsylvania cracker plant
Extracts from an article by Rachel Morgan published on 10 March 2014 by TimesOnline
POTTER TWP. — Shell Oil Co. has purchased another property near its proposed $2.5 billion petrochemical plant in Potter Township… According to the Beaver County Property Assessment Records, the 5.49 acre property sold for $1.87 million. On Dec. 18, the oil and gas company paid $1.87 million for a nearly 5.5-acre parcel…. Another landowner near the proposed cracker plant site who spoke on the condition of anonymity said in December they had also been approached by Shell regarding purchase…
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Shell: no certainty fracking for Karoo shale gas economically viable
Extracts from an article by Melanie Gosling published on 11 March by Independent Online under the headline: “Fracking revenue still not quantified – Shell”
Cape Town – Shell says there is no certainty that fracking for shale gas in the Karoo will be economically viable. Niall Kramer, Shell’s upstream manager, told delegates at a roundtable discussion on fracking on Monday that only once the oil company had completed exploration work would it be able to assess whether fracking would be economically viable. “Many people think this gas is a done deal. That’s not the case.
Tagged: Karoo Fracking · Royal Dutch Shell Plc · South AfricaUkraine Crisis Endangers Black Sea Gas Drilling
Extracts from an article
Before violent protests in Kiev overthrew pro-Moscow President Viktor Yanukovychand Russian troops occupied parts of Crimea, a group including Exxon and Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSA) planned to spend $735 million drilling two wells about 50 miles (80 kilometers) from the region’s southwest coast. “Exxon and Shell are now in a legal limbo,” said Chris Weafer, a partner at Macro Advisory in Moscow. They pursued an “exploration deal with a government which may soon no longer have jurisdiction over the region.”
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