Royal Dutch Shell plc .com (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
July 9 (Bloomberg) -- Brazilian PresidentLuiz Inacio Lula da Silva may boost the government's stake in oil fields after the largest discovery in the Americas since 1976 prompted a review of rules for how petroleum deposits are developed.
Royal Dutch Shell plc .com (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
The company this week announced that it was buying six North Sea oil fields from Shell and Exxon, giving it 40,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day of production, and an estimated 160m boe of reserves.
The Sir Robert Bond Papers (Free subscription) | yesterday
Royal Dutch Shell won't be building a new 200,000 barrel per day refinery in Sarnia, Ontario to process oil from the Alberta tar sands. The company cited poor market conditions and surging costs, according to Reuters . In other words, a company with its own guaranteed source of raw material isn't building a greenfield refinery close to both the source of raw material and markets. Instead, Shell will...
Royal Dutch Shell plc .com (Free subscription) | yesterday
CALGARY, Alberta, July 8 (Reuters) - Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSa.L:Quote, Profile, Research) has canceled plans to build a new multibillion-dollar refinery near Sarnia, Ontario, due to poor market conditions and surging costs, the oil major said on Tuesday.
Royal Dutch Shell plc .com (Free subscription) | yesterday
Shell may process oil sands crude at US refineries Tue Jul 8, 2008 1:59pm EDT CALGARY, Alberta, July 8 (Reuters) - Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSa.L: Quote , Profile , Research , Stock Buzz ) may process tar-like crude from its Canadian oil sands holdings at some of its U.S.…
Royal Dutch Shell plc .com (Free subscription) | yesterday
Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSA) is receiving Mexican crude oil at or above levels stipulated in its contract with Petroleos Mexicanos, or Pemex, at its Deer Park, Texas, refinery, Shell said in an email Monday. Shell spokesman Destin Singleton said the refinery also receives crude from other sources.
Houston Chronicle (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
Water is being pumped from the Ursa rig in the Ursa-Mars basin, about 100 miles off the U.S. coast, to flush out oil from the Ursa and Princess fields, Shell said in a statement posted on its Web site today.
Finance Markets (Free subscription) | yesterday
The oil sector declined in London Tuesday as crude oil prices dropped sharply, helping send the FTSE 100 1.31 percent lower to 5,440.5 while the FTSE 250 dropped 1.66 percent to 8,480.1 Among oil producers, BP (LSE: BP; NYSE: BP; TYO: 5051) was down 3.4 percent while Royal Dutch Shell (LSE: RDSA, RDSB; NYSE: RDS.A, RDS.B) [...]
Royal Dutch Shell plc .com (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
Shell’s “energy scenarios” see fossil fuels remaining a huge part of the energy mix to 2050. But are they realistic? And if Shell is right, what does it mean for the planet’s future?
Houston Chronicle (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
Royal Dutch Shell Plc, Europe's largest oil company, backs a plan by European Union lawmakers to offer carbon dioxide allowances worth $28 billion for carbon capture and storage projects.
Royal Dutch Shell plc .com (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
EXTRACTS FROM BLOOMBERG ARTICLES PUBLISHED 7 JULY 2008 Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSA NA): Chief Executive Officer Jeroen van der Veer doesn’t expect oil supplies to run short, even in the long-term, Swiss newspaper Finanz und Wirtschaft reported, citing an interview. Separately, Europe’s largest oil…
Royal Dutch Shell plc .com (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
In the latest deal, ConocoPhillips outmaneuvered Royal Dutch Shell PLC...
Royal Dutch Shell plc .com (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
A high oil price can make exploration more economical but some major players in the industry, including Royal Dutch Shell, are withdrawing from the North Sea because all the easy-to-find crude has been extracted.
Royal Dutch Shell plc .com (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
Royal Dutch Shell and Occidental had been viewed as frontrunners during the long negotiations but ConocoPhillips said this year that it expected to be "working" on the project.
Royal Dutch Shell plc .com (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
About 2,000 of the 25,000 polar bears in the Arctic live in and around the Chukchi Sea, where the government in February auctioned off oil leases to Shell Oil Co., ConocoPhillips Co., and five other companies for $2.6 billion. Over objections from environmentalists and some members of Congress, the sale occurred before the bear was classified as threatened in May.
