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January, 2007:

Sherwood Park News: Explosive chemical leaked from Shell Scotford

No injuries in incident as crews contain vapour to plant site

by Dave S. Clark
Wednesday January 31, 2007

Residents and businesses in northern Strathcona County were in lockdown on Sunday afternoon due to the release of an explosive chemical at the Shell Scotford Upgrader.

According to Erin Carrier, a spokesperson for Alberta Environment, the plant began leaking a chemical called polyethylbenzene. Beverlee Loat, spokesperson for Shell Chemical, said the leak was noticed at about 12:15 p.m.

Carrier said once the release was noticed, Shell enacted its emergency call out system, calling over 185 residents and businesses in the area and notifying them to stay inside in an internal room where there are no windows. Carrier said since the chemical is explosive, all precautions were taken. read more

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New Straits Times, Malaysia: High seas drama: Helicopter crashes off Bintulu, nine rescued, one missing

Helicopter

31 Jan 2007
Firdaus Abdullah, Dennis Wong and Adrian David

KUCHING: For the second time in three months, a helicopter en route to an offshore oil facility has crashed into the sea, this time off Bintulu.

A 26-year-old technician remains missing while seven others and the Super Puma L2’s two pilots were rescued in choppy waters about 40km out in the South China Sea yesterday.

The high seas drama started when the transport helicopter, chartered by Petronas Carigali and operated by Malaysian Helicopter Services Sdn Bhd (MHS), crashed in bad weather on its way to the B18 platform in the Bayan Balingian oilfield. read more

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UPI: Oil tech missing after chopper crash

KUCHING, Malaysia, (UPI) — A technician was missing after a helicopter carrying employees to offshore oil drilling platforms crashed Tuesday in the South China Sea off Malaysia.

Seven passengers and two pilots were rescued, the New Straits Times reported. The missing man was identified as Irwan Fasla Aini Salihin, a technician with a Petronas contractor.

The crash occurred in stormy weather with high winds and waves. The passenger might have failed to escape from the helicopter before it sank or have been swept away after getting out. read more

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Nine Injured, One Missing In Malaysian Helicopter Crash

Nine people were injured and one remains missing after a helicopter carrying staff of Malaysian national oil company Petronas crashed in deep seas off the eastern state of Sarawak on Borneo, reports said Wednesday.

The Super Puma L2 helicopter, carrying 10 people including two pilots, was reported to have crashed Tuesday en route to an oil platform, the official Bernama news agency said.

Nine occupants on board the chopper survived the crash, but one passenger remains missing, the report said.

“When the helicopter crashed into the sea, seven of the workers and the pilots scrambled out before the it sank,” a source was quoted as saying by the Star daily. read more

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The Guardian: Campaigners urge Shell to put profits into clean-up

· Green groups put firm’s damage bill at $20bn
· Record earning ‘should go to local communities’

Terry Macalister
Wednesday January 31, 2007

Record annual profits to be announced by Shell tomorrow should be used towards paying off a bill estimated at more than $20bn (£10bn) for the damage caused by its oil activities to local communities and the wider environment, according to an alliance of human rights and green groups including Friends of the Earth (FoE).

High crude prices mean the Anglo-Dutch oil company is expected to show earnings of $25bn, up 17%. It has left in its wake a legacy of oil spills, air pollution and residents who pay the price of its operations while gaining few of the financial benefits, claims a report today from the FoE-led Shell Accountability Campaign. read more

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CSRwire: Royal Dutch Shell: Use your profits to clean up your mess

01/30/2007: Press Release from Global Community Monitor

New report about damage to the environment and communities caused by Shell

(CSRwire) SAN FRANCISCO, CA (USA) / AMSTERDAM (The Netherlands) / LONDON (UK) – January 31, 2007 – A new report, launched the day before oil giant Shell announces its 2006 annual profits (on 1 February 2007) calls on Shell to use the profits to begin cleaning up damage it has caused to communities and the environment. The report offers proposals and figures for where and how Shell should repair some of the damage it has caused in nine communities around the world. read more

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The Wall Street Journal: U.S. May Probe Shell Gas Deal

Investment in Iran
Likely Exceeds Limit
Set by Sanctions Law
By IAN TALLEY
January 31, 2007

WASHINGTON — The U.S. will likely investigate whether Royal Dutch Shell PLC’s upstream services agreement for a $4.3 billion liquefied-natural-gas project in southern Iran violates its sanctions laws, a State Department spokesman said.

U.S. law bars companies from doing more than $20 million a year in business with Iran, and since the project is likely to exceed that, State Department spokesman Scott McCormack said he “was sure” the government “will take a look at this particular deal.” read more

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The Wall Street Journal: Congress Gets Hot Over Iran Deals: Shell… ‘must be held accountable’

January 30, 2007, 8:34 pm

Some prominent lawmakers want the Bush administration to get tough with European and Asian companies moving ahead with big investment deals in Iran’s lucrative oil and gas industry, the backbone of the country’s economy. Royal Dutch Shell and Spain’s Repsol are the latest companies to announce possible multi-billion dollar exploration deals in Iran — in their case a potential $4.3 billion liquefied-natural-gas project in the south of the country.

The State Department says it is looking into the proposed Shell-Repsol deal, which could run afoul of the Iran Freedom Support Act, a law that calls for sanctions against any companies investing over $20 million in Iran’s oil and gas industry. A similar law has been in place since the late 1990s, but neither the Clinton nor Bush administrations have sanctioned companies operating in Iran. read more

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THE WALL STREET JOURNAL: Oil News Roundup: January 30, 2007 4:07 p.m.

Crude-oil futures rose more than 5% to a three-week high of nearly $57 a barrel, boosted by colder U.S. weather and looming OPEC production cuts.

Here is Tuesday’s roundup of oil and energy news:

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EMERGENCY GLOBAL-WARMING SESSION: United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon is planning an emergency meeting of world leaders in September to discuss global warming, the Financial Times reports. Among the discussions will be finding a successor treaty to the Kyoto protocol, due to expire in 2012. read more

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The Moscow Times: Rosneft and Gazprom Put Their Feud Aside

Tuesday, January 30, 2007. Issue 3585. Page 1.
By Miriam Elder
Staff Writer

Recent partnership deals between Rosneft and Gazprom have paved the way for major shifts in the energy industry that will further squeeze out foreign oil majors while enabling a much-needed boost in production, analysts say.

The two state-owned companies have emerged from the dust of a failed merger that collapsed in May 2005 amid an acrimonious struggle over who would snatch up the main production unit of bankrupt Yukos, and now appear ready to put their feuding behind them. read more

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Videotaped Deposition of former Chief Executive of Shell Exploration & Production Walter van de Vijver

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National Post (Canada): Swift action cut costs in giant

oilpatch deal

SCOTIAWATEROUS CNQ paid US$4B for Anadarko’s Canadian assets
BY SCOTT DEVEAU Financial Post scdeveau@nationalpost.com

The brevity of a deal is sometimes as important as the price, and that certainly was the case with the largest oil and gas acquisition in Canada last year.

The breakneck pace in which Canadian NaturalResources Inc.’s “swat team” of evaluators put together its US$4-billion offer for Anadarko Petroleum Corp.’s Canadian assets last year wound up undercutting the advertised price by about US$1-billion, according to Adam Waterous, president and head of ScotiaWaterous, which acted as financial adviser for Canadian Naturalon the deal. read more

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Calgary Herald: Russian watchdog alleges ‘violations’ at BP gasfield

20 January 2007

Claims raise fear oil firm will lose control of project
AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE

Russia’s environmental watchdog alleged on Monday violations in the huge Siberian gasfield run by a unit of BP, raising fears that the British oil major could lose control of the project.

“We asked for information on (gasfield) Kovykta. . . . We received this information and they showed that one point of the licence was not adhered to,” Rosprirodnadzor deputy head Oleg Mitvol said.

He said the gasfield, run by a unit of TNK-BP, which in turn is 50 per cent owned by BP and 50 per cent owned by Russia’s Alfa Access Renova, would be inspected in March. read more

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THE HINDU: Energy war

EXTRACT: SAKHALIN-2 TAKEOVER: In December, Gazprom ousted Royal Dutch Shell from its leading position in Asia’s biggest energy project, Sakhalin-2. Faced with multi-billion-dollar legal actions and licence recall over environmental damage, Royal Dutch Shell and its two partners, Mitsui and Mitsubishi, agreed to sell just over 50 per cent of their shares to Gazprom. With the takeover of Sakhalin-2, the better part of the Russian oil and gas sector reverted to government control.

THE ARTICLE  read more

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The Age (Australia) : Shell Iran deal revives BHP pipedream

EXTRACTS: THE lure of Iran’s vast oil and gas reserves has proved too tempting for Repsol and Royal Dutch Shell… But Washington’s tough line over petroleum investment in Iran means it will be hard for companies to maintain operations in the US.  John Browne, chief executive of rival BP has bowed to US pressure and will not invest in Iran — he is concerned about compromising his company’s US interests.

Mark Hawthorne
Wednesday January 31, 2007

THE lure of Iran’s vast oil and gas reserves has proved too tempting for Repsol and Royal Dutch Shell, which are negotiating to build a $US4.3 billion ($A5.6 billion) liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant and port terminal at the country’s South Pars gas field by the end of the year. read more

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ChinaView: Shell Helicopter crashes in South China Sea

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 30 (Xinhua) — A helicopter carrying 10 oil rig workers and two pilots crashed in the South China Sea offshore Bintulu in Malaysia’s eastern state of Sarawak on Tuesday afternoon.

The website of Malaysia’s English-language newspaper The Star said that nine of the workers had found alive, one was missing, while the fate of the pilots remained unknown so far.

Sarawak Shell had dispatched a search and rescue team to the spot where the incident took place.   
  
www.chinaview.cn 2007-01-30 19:29:57 read more

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