Iraq is on track to outstrip Russia as the worlds second-largest oil producer after the award of a giant production contract yesterday to Royal Dutch Shell.
Shell and its partner, Petronas of Malaysia, secured access to the Majnoon field in the countrys south, which contains an estimated 12.6 billion barrels of [...]
The US Department of the Interior’s (DOI) Minerals Management Service (MMS) has approved, with conditions, Shell Gulf of Mexico, Inc.’s Exploration Plan to drill three exploratory, information-gathering wells in the Chukchi Sea.
In 2008, Shell’s subsidiary paid $2.1 billion for leases during Chukchi Sea Oil and Gas Lease Sale 193. [...]
Quantum Fuel Systems Technologies Worldwide, Inc., has supplied hydrogen refueling technology and key hydrogen infrastructure equipment for the Shell Hydrogen public re-fueling station in New York City, located at the entrance to John F. Kennedy International Airport.
This station is part of a cluster of hydrogen refueling stations opened [...]
LONDON (Reuters) - A prominent Internet critic of Royal Dutch Shell says the oil major has asked an anti-cyber fraud agency to target his site, which Shell admits provides better information on the group than its own internal communications.
John Donovan, who runs the Royaldutchshell.plc website, where disaffected Shell employees [...]
LONDON, Nov. 30 (UPI) -- Executives at supermajor Royal Dutch Shell are pulling back on their optimism for certain biofuels while others look to batteries as a way to cut emissions.
Biofuels made from corn and other sources were lauded as a way to cut greenhouse gas emissions. A link to [...]
Kurt Wulff (McDep Associates) submits: Analyzing third quarter results released today, we reaffirm estimated Net Present Value (NPV) of $79 a share for buy-recommended Royal Dutch Shell (RDS.A). On that basis, unlevered appreciation potential is 22% to a [...]
Air Products recently announced a long-term hydrogen supply contract with ExxonMobil’s (Esso) Rotterdam refinery in The Netherlands and will build a new world-scale hydrogen production plant to serve that refinery and additional customers in the region, including Shell.
The plant will feature technology advancements to maximize facility energy [...]
In World Energy Outlook 2009, the International Energy Agency seems to have dropped a bombshell that has been quietly (and politely) ignored. In their main 'reference scenario', the IEA forecasts that OECD demand has already peaked - it never recovers the levels seen before the oil price spikes and financial [...]
Demand will fall by about 2 million barrels a day this year as the recession [...]
Scientists have uncovered a large expanse of "corrosive" water in the Canadian Arctic that is putting the marine food web at risk.
The waters have been so altered by climate change and melting sea ice that plankton, shellfish and fish may have trouble building their protective shells and skeletons, an international [...]
Oil spills in Arctic ice may be easier to clean than those in open water, according to research funded by oil companies that are seeking offshore exploration in federal waters.
Shell Oil Co. brought scientists from the Norwegian nonprofit research institute SINTEF to Anchorage this week to present findings from May [...]

We mentioned yesterday the International Energy Agencys outline of what the worlds energy future would look like over the next 20 years if it took serious steps to tackle climate change, rather than continuing on a business-as-usual course.
In a nutshell, the IEAs vision of the next two decades would make [...]
Kurt Wulff (McDep Associates) submits: Stocks of the European Oil group, made up of five buy-recommendations, Total (TOT), StatoilHydro (STO), Royal Dutch Shell (RDS), BP plc [...]
Shell Deutschland Oil GmbH has sold its shares in CHOREN Industries GmbH to all the remaining CHOREN shareholders, a syndicate consisting primarily of Hamburg-based entrepreneurs as well as the carmakers Daimler AG and Volkswagen AG. Shell had acquired a minority stake in CHOREN in 2005. (Earlier post.)
CHOREN is [...]