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Oil trading scandal ‘unsurprising’ based on BP and Shell’s past record
16 May 2013 Reacting to the unfolding oil price fixing investigations of BP and Shell, Platform oil campaigner Mika Minio-Paluello said: “The scale of the likely market-rigging by BP and Shell is shocking but unsurprising. BP and Shell have a record of making massive profits at the expense of the public by either price-fixing or…
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Shell and Gazprom sign more documents on Arctic tie-up
Gazprom and Shell signed a new agreement today, under the eyes of Vladimir Putin on his trade mission to Europe. The agreement has been in discussion for a few years; at one point a BP-and-Rosneft style share swap was discussed, but the two companies appear to have settled for a Joint Venture. Together they’ll extract…
9 Apr 2013 anna -
Report: Shell gushed cash on Nigeria security
Al Jazeera – August 20, 2012
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Nigeria took 40 pct of Shell security spend in late 2000s-NGO
Reuters – August 20, 2012
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Shell paid Nigeria millions to guard oil facilities
AFP – August 20, 2012
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Shell spending millions of dollars on security in Nigeria, leaked data shows
The Guardian – August 19, 2012
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Shell ‘paying tens of millions to Nigerian security forces’
The Telegraph – August 19, 2012
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Shell suspends Arctic drilling for 2013
We’re celebrating Shell’s announcement that the drilling programme in the Alaskan Arctic has been halted for the year! Here are a few perspectives on why this has happened and what’s going to happen next… 1) Company public relations describe this as an effort to ensure the drilling is safe: “Shell remains committed to building an…
28 Feb 2013 anna -
Osborne’s tax breaks for North Sea oil and a Thatcherism flashback
Back in the 70s, the UK and Norway took two very different approaches to the roughly equal share of North Sea oil and gas that they had within their territorial waters. With state-owned oil company Statoil at the helm, Norway cautiously put aside profits and levies from other oil companies operating within its fields into…
25 Feb 2013 admin
