Corrib gas: Black starts, intelligent pigs and the mechanics of extraction

Jun 29th, 2015 

by John Donovan. 

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Corrib gas: Black starts, intelligent pigs and the mechanics of extraction

Peter Murtagh: Monday, 29 June 2015

The mechanics of extracting gas from the Corrib field appear simple enough. It is only when one gets into the detail of the engineering that the complexities emerge.

This is an environment in which a relatively small number of people can spend years – in remote places such as Sakhalin Island in the far east of Russia, in the Middle East, or on rigs in the North Sea – living intense lives in dangerous conditions and sometimes speaking a language alien to others.

They talk about “slug catchers” and “intelligent pigs”, about Christmas trees at the bottom of the sea, and about “black starts” – no one wants a black start, but if you are going to operate a terminal like the one now being tested at Bellanaboy in Mayo, someday for sure, you are going to have to do a black start.

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Posted in: Corrib Gas Project, Environment, Gas, Ireland, Irish Times, Royal Dutch Shell Plc, Shell.
Tagged: Corrib Gas Project · Gas · Ireland · Royal Dutch Shell Plc · Shell

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The Corrib legacy: what the protests achieved

Jun 29th, 2015 

by John Donovan. 

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The Corrib legacy: what the protests achieved

A rerouting of the pipeline and greater public awareness of how Ireland treats its natural resources were among the positive outcomes of the Shell to Sea, campaigners say

Bríd McGarry, a Mayo landowner, and Mary Corduff, wife of jailed farmer Willie Corduff, after five Mayo farmers were jailed in 2005 for refusing to give an undertaking not to obstruct the construction of the Corrib gas pipe line. Photograph: Alan Betson/The Irish Times

Lorna Siggins: Monday June 29, 2015

“You’ve gone very quiet up there.” North Mayo resident Mary Corduff reckons that if she had a euro for every time she heard this remark over the past few months, her purse could be pretty full. “People think because they don’t see us on protesting on the television that we have accepted this, but we haven’t,” Corduff says, looking out of her farmhouse window towards the Corrib gas refinery several miles away.

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EFCC quizzes former minister, Etete, over alleged oil deal

EFCC quizzes former minister, Etete, over alleged oil deal

Jun 29th, 2015 

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EFCC quizzes former minister, Etete, over OPL 245 oil deal

By Abosede Musari, Abuja on June 29, 2015

FORMER Minister of Petroleum, Dan Etete, was yesterday quizzed by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in continuation of an investigation that had been stalled for several years.

A source told The Guardian that the former minister was granted administrative bail to provide more documents on the alleged $1.1 billion oil deal transfer that was made to Switzerland under his company, Malabu Oil and Gas.

It was reported in the media last week that the EFCC has revived investigations into the Malabu oil deal when Etete was questioned and released to report back last Monday.

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Polar Pioneer arrives in Dutch Harbor for Chukchi Sea drilling

Polar Pioneer arrives in Dutch Harbor for Chukchi Sea drilling

Jun 28th, 2015 

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By Chris Klint, Senior Digital Producer, cklint@ktuu.com; June 28, 2015

The first of two drilling rigs, scheduled to conduct exploratory drilling for Shell in the Chukchi Sea this summer, has arrived in the Aleutian Islands port of Dutch Harbor this weekend.

The federal government has given Transocean’s Polar Pioneer, contracted by Shell, a green light to drill in the Chukchi this yearalong with the drillship Noble Discoverer. Shell spokeswoman Megan Baldino said Sunday morning that the Polar Pioneer reached Dutch Harbor at about 2 a.m. Saturday.

“It arrived there safely,” Baldino said.

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Learn why it’s so important for the Department of Labor to update federal overtime regulations

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Friend,

Let me introduce you to Dawn. Dawn’s employer, Dollar General, basically cheated her out of money because an outdated rule about who is eligible for overtime pay said they could. And Dawn’s not alone. An estimated 6 million workers should be getting overtime, but aren’t.

Dawn should’ve been paid for her time, or she shouldn’t have been made to work those hours. Fortunately, a lot of groups are making a big push to fix the overtime pay rules as more and more workers are made to work longer hours without being paid for the overtime. So President Obama has asked the Department of Labor to update the old rules that allow employers to do this.

Watch Dawn tell her story and learn why it’s so important for the Department of Labor to update federal overtime regulations.

As a parent I know how valuable time is when you’re raising a family. And it makes me angry to think of all the moms and dads who may be forced to work more hours but still are earning poverty wages because of this outdated rule. That time should be spent earning money to put food on the table or it should be spent at that table with their families.To be robbed of that time and not be paid for it is egregious.

Single parents, women, people of color and young workers are especially affected by this issue because it’s often more difficult to secure a job in the first place, with the day-to-day stakes being much higher for them. But it doesn’t have to be this way.

Watch and share Dawn’s story to see why it’s so important for the Department of Labor to update the federal overtime rules.

In Solidarity,

Lee
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Lee Anderson
Digital Strategist, AFL-CIO

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The Real Meaning of "Fast Track"—It's Alienation and Powerlessness for the Rest of Us

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