Iran courts western oil majors at Davos
FINANCIAL TIMES In a closed-door meeting on Thursday, including BP, Eni, Royal Dutch Shell and Total, on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Mr Rouhani and his oil minister Bijan Namdar...
View ArticleIraq and Iran plot oil revolution in challenge to Saudi Arabia
Iraq’s goal of pumping 9m barrels a day of crude could be a game changer for oil prices and British companies: British oil giants BP and Royal Dutch Shell are also poised to benefit from Iraq’s...
View ArticleUS To Stay Tough On Iran Sanctions Despite Deal
By Scott Flaherty Law360, New York (February 04, 2014, 4:27 PM ET) — The U.S. will continue stiff enforcement of existing economic sanctions against Iran despite an interim deal offering some sanctions...
View ArticleRoyal Dutch Shell CEO Ben van Beurden Bows to Putin
Shell’s Ben van Beurden bows to Putin: Good Friday, 18 April 2014 For over a 100 years, Shell has been driven by unscrupulous greed as its sole motivator. Shell funded Hitler and the Nazis party and...
View ArticleBP and Shell exposed as US prepares first warning shot against Russia’s oil...
Firms may be forced to curtail operations as G7 powers prepare to launch new sanctions Extract from an article by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard published1:28PM BST 27 Apr 2014 by The Telegraph Britain’s...
View ArticleRoyal Dutch Shell shameful record of appeasement
By John Donovan For nearly a hundred years the Royal Dutch Shell Group has appeased and collaborated with evil regimes including Nazi Germany, Nigeria, Brunei, Saudi Arabia, Libya, Iran, Iraq under...
View ArticleTotal oil debts to Iran exceeds $ 4 bln
Extracts from a Trend article by Umid Niayesh published 20 May 2014 Royal Dutch Shell also has not settled its debts without unveiling further details. Previously Iranian media outlets reported that...
View ArticleShell, Iran and 9/11
Basically Shell is holding on to over $2 billion of funds belonging to an ‘adjudicated terrorist’ – Iran – and is denying those funds to the victims of the 9/11 terrorist attack on the World Trade...
View ArticleRoyal Dutch Shell and U.S. Sanctions on Russia
Shell CEO Ben van Beurden bows to President Putin during a meeting held on 18 April 2014 By John Donovan Royal Dutch Shell directors must be feeling anxious again. For some years Shell continued to...
View ArticleROYAL DUTCH SHELL PLC AND RUSSIA: BUSINESS AS USUAL
By John Donovan Shell CEO Ben van Beurden was straightforward in what he publicly stated at the 2014 AGM of Royal Dutch Shell Plc. He said that Shell puts the interests of its shareholders first, above...
View ArticleShell CEO on global turmoil’s impact
Screenshots from a Fox Business video of an interview with Royal Dutch Shell CEO Ben van Beurden on 4 Sept 2014 shows the uncertainty that surrounds Shell. Mr van Beurden bluntly made it clear at the...
View ArticleOIL, OIL, TOIL AND TROUBLE
ARTICLE BY STEVEN HAYWARD, PUBLISHED BY POWERLINE 25 NOVEMBER 2014 The fall OPEC meeting is under way right now in Vienna, and all eyes are on the Saudis, to see whether they will lead a strategy to...
View ArticleOPEC IN DISARRAY AS OIL PRICE TUMBLES
Major Opec nations, Russia and US shale oil drillers now appear on the brink of a price war as these three giant producing blocs fight for a greater share of global demand. (Potentially disastrous news...
View ArticleShell’s Return to Iran?
Iranian officials have said that Royal Dutch Shell, British Petroleum, France’s Total and Russia’s Lukoil had expressed interest in investing in Iran when the sanctions imposed on Tehran over its...
View ArticleOil price to dip to $50 or even lower?
By John Donovan Recognising the seismic significance of the continuing collapse in the price of oil, The Sunday Times devoted several articles to the subject last weekend. It has done the same again...
View ArticleTumbling crude prices will lay waste to countries and companies alike
By John Donovan The oil industry is leaving 2014 on a low note as far as oil prices are concerned. A financial earthquake has hit ExxonMobil, Royal Dutch Shell, BP, Chevron, Conocophillips and Total....
View ArticleShell still buying Iranian crude
Reuters: Tuesday, Jan 06, 2015 TOKYO – Two of Japan’s biggest buyers of Iranian crude, JX Nippon Oil & Energy Corp and Showa Shell Sekiyu KK, are set to keep their purchases from Tehran largely...
View ArticleBP sees $50 oil for three years
BP can’t be immune to the upheaval. Today its job announcement is focused on the UK. But it won’t be long till it announces staff reductions in Houston, another of its important centres. Robert Peston...
View ArticleOil Prices Start Week in Negative Territory
From an article by Georgi Kantchev published by the Wall Street Journal 19 Jan 2015 unde the headline: “Oil Prices Start Week in Negative Territory” Extract LONDON—Oil prices started the week in...
View ArticleWho Will Rule the Oil Market?
OPINION ARTICLE BY DANIEL YERGIN PUBLISHED IN PRINT BY THE NEW YORK TIMES ON SATURDAY 25 JAN 2015 WASHINGTON — A HISTORIC change of roles is at the heart of the clamor and turmoil over the collapse of...
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