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Shell News Archive Saturday 31 December 2005

Shell News Archive Saturday 31 December 2005

Toronto Star: Royal Dutch Shell eyes Canadian minority buyout: Offer could be worth $7 billion: Saturday 31 December 2005: READ
 
Business Times Malaysia: Joint venture field delivers first gas: “SHELL Malaysia and Petronas Carigali Sdn Bhd have achieved a major milestone with the delivery of first gas from their jointly-operated new Shallow Clastics satellite field.: December 31 2005: READ
 
Rediff (India): Shell suspends Hazira operations: Saturday 31 December 2005: READ
 
The Times: ‘The year has not panned out as well as it might at several of my little jobs’: “FEBRUARY: My old friend Philip Watts is still being blamed for some trifling errors at Shell. A few oilfields are misplaced and the stock market overreacts in its usual, tiresome way. It is only the fifth such warning, after all.” : “NOVEMBER: My good friend Philip Watts has been cleared of all wrongdoing by the Financial Services Authority, and one must rejoice. The outcome was predictable from the start. When has the FSA ever successfully taken on anyone so senior? Their job is to go after minor fraudsters and insider traders, not to interfere in the boardroom.”: Saturday December 31, 2005: READ
 
The Times: Knighthood for oilman who took a gamble: “BILL GAMMELL, the Scottish entrepreneur who turned Cairn Energy into a FTSE 100 giant after a gamble on an Indian oilfield, is knighted in the New Year’s Honours List.”: “His decision to stick with an exploration prospect in northwestern India that had been discarded by Shell paid off with a string of oil discoveries.”: Saturday 31 December 2005: READ
 
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL: PAGE ONE: Jeroen van der Veer, chief executive of Royal Dutch Shell PLC, says natural gas now accounts for 40% of Shell’s hydrocarbon output and is rising. “In a decade, we will be close to being 50-50,” he says. “One day, the question will be whether we should be [called] an oil-and-gas company or a gas-and-oil company.”: Saturday 31 December 2005: READ
Financial Times: How Ukraine will fare without Russia’s gas: “Q Why is Russia threatening to turn off gas supplies to Ukraine?”: Saturday 31 December 2005: READ
 
The New York Times: Venezuela Reaches Deal With Spain’s Repsol: Posted Saturday 31 December 2005: READ

AFX Europe (Focus); Shell, CNOOC complete 4.3 bln usd China petrochem project: Posted 31 December 2005: READ

Business Wire: Shell Deer Park Considers $200 Million Expansion to Produce Additional Gasoline, an Industrialinfo.com News Alert: Posted 31 December 2005: READ

Globe and Mail (Canada): Shell gains on buyout speculation: Posted Saturday, 31 December 2005: READ

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