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Zacks.com
March 23, 2018
Adapting to the changing times, Shell is successfully reorienting and re-strategizing its business to de-carbonize the energy system. In a bid to ... Meanwhile, it is concentrating on modernizing and upgrading its refineries by using superior technologies to derive high-value light products. As such, it is poisedÃâà...
The Australian
March 20, 2018
Smaller deals last year included Viva's $250 million acquisition of Shell's aviation business and Caltex's $424m acquisitions of Gull NZ and Milemaker. Viva owns the Geelong refinery, one of only four in Australia, and a network of more than 20 fuel import terminals through which it supplies a quarter of theÃâà...
Platts
March 20, 2018
--Nigeria's four state-owned oil refineries -- two in Port Harcourt and one each in Kaduna and Warri -- are to be shut for a major overhaul to restore ... --US engineer CB&I has been awarded a $95 million contract for the expansion and modernization of the 305,000 b/d Saudi Aramco Shell Refinery (Sasref)Ãâà...
San Francisco Chronicle
March 20, 2018
Shell, whose Martinez refinery is shown, is one of the fossil-fuel corporations scheduled to answer U.S. District Judge William Alsup's eight questions ... ExxonMobil and Shell are scheduled to present their views on climate science in federal court Wednesday alongside attorneys for San Francisco andÃâà...
The Root
March 20, 2018
Some five years ago, the unmarked graves of as many as 1,000 enslaved people who were forced to work in the fields of plantations in Ascension Parish, La. were uncovered by an archeologist working for Shell Convent Refinery. The discovery was heralded by one expert as among the largest unknownÃâà...
Platts
March 16, 2018
Shell has agreed to sell its New Zealand oil and gas business to Austria's OMV for $578 million, and also exited its upstream ventures in the country, the ... products such as naphtha and condensate are piped to the Newtown King Tanker Terminal at Port Taranaki to be shipped to refineries for processing.
Yahoo Finance UK
March 16, 2018
HOUSTON, March 15 (Reuters) - Royal Dutch Shell Plc (LSE: 0LN9.L - news) completed the restart of the catalytic reformer at its 225,800-barrel-per-day (bpd) Norco, Louisiana, refinery on Thursday, sources familiar with plant operations said. A company spokesman was not available for comment.
Yahoo Finance UK
March 16, 2018
... * Royal Dutch Shell Plc (LSE: 0LN9.L - news) may begin restarting the gasoline-producing unit at its 227,586 barrel-per-day Convent, Louisiana, refinery on Friday, said sources familiar with plant operations. * The 92,000 bpd gasoline-producing fluidic catalytic cracking unit was shut on March 8 forÃâà...
Yahoo Finance UK
March 15, 2018
Royal Dutch Shell Plc (LSE: 0LN9.L - news) is restarting the catalytic reformer following a planned overhaul at its 225,800 barrel-per-day (bpd) Norco, Louisiana, refinery on Wednesday, said sources familiar with plant operations. * Shell (LSE: RDSB.L - news) restarted its 40,000 bpd hydrocracker onÃâà...
Market Realist
March 13, 2018
In 4Q17, Shell's downstream segment earnings rose 4% compared to 4Q16. The geographical refining margins where Shell's refineries operate point to Shell's refining margin. All four areas showed a mixed trend in the quarter. While its Gulf Coast coking margin and its Singapore margin declined 6% YoYÃâà...
Highways Magazine
March 13, 2018
'Shell has a refinery in the Netherlands that produces bitumen that Shell would add components back into – some of the aromatics and asphaltenes that have been ... Retrofitting refineries to not produce those heavier elements is a seriously costly business that can run to hundreds of millions of pounds.
Law.com
March 13, 2018
The state has been pursuing the litigation for more than a decade, claiming that waterways throughout New Jersey have been contaminated by gasoline containing MTBE that was supplied to the market by the Bayway Refinery in Linden, New Jersey. The DEP first filed suit in state court in 2007 againstÃâà...
OilPrice.com
March 10, 2018
Oil major Royal Dutch Shell halted gasoline production at its Convent, Louisiana, refinery between Thursday and Friday, Reuters reported on Friday, citing ... Under that deal, Aramco got the biggest refinery in the U.S., Port Arthur in Texas, while Shell received the Norco and Convent refineries in Louisiana.
Madison County Record
March 9, 2018
Class counsel - attorneys at the Simmons firm in Alton and others - will receive more than $1.2 million in fees, and more than $100,000 in costs and expenses. Class representative Jeana Parko filed suit against Shell in 2012 in Madison County, claiming that Shell's refinery in Wood River released benzene,Ãâà...
Rigzone
March 9, 2018
She was part of a STEM honors program in high school and awarded the opportunity to work at a Shell refinery – a much more well-paying job than the retail clerk position she held. That led her to pursue an engineering degree at Texas A&M University. Rios had an internship with BP for four summersÃâà...
London South East (blog)
March 6, 2018
... * Royal Dutch Shell Plc was restarting the crude distillation unit (CDU) and hydrocracker at its 225,800 bpd Norco, Louisiana, refinery on Monday, said sources familiar with plant operations. * The 240,000 bpd CDU was shut in early February and the 40,000 bpd hydrocracker was shut in mid-January forÃâà...
Kitco News
March 1, 2018
Feb 28 (Reuters) - The following is a list of refinery incidents reported in the United States on Feb. 28: CVR Wynnewood, Oklahoma Refinery Reports Emissions on Feb. 24 HollyFrontier Reports Emissions at Tulsa East, Oklahoma Refinery on Feb.
The Times
March 1, 2018
He returned to Britain to study for a doctorate at Imperial College London before joining Shell as a refinery scheduling engineer in the Netherlands. He also has held roles in the Philippines, Singapore, Brazil and Poland. Mr Crooks joins the utility sector at a time of intense political scrutiny ahead of theÃâà...
Hellenic Shipping News Worldwide
February 23, 2018
Singapore police have filed new charges on a group of men charged last month for allegedly stealing marine gasoil from Shell Eastern Petroleum's refinery, official police documents obtained by S&P Global Platts showed. Five fresh charges were filed against Juandi Pungot, Muzaffar Ali Khan MuhamadÃâà...
Truth-Out
February 23, 2018
New Orleans -- On February 12, as much of southern Louisiana was focused on Mardi Gras parades, the government announced a multimillion-dollar settlement with Shell Oil over a long list of air pollution violations at a petrochemical refinery in Norco, Louisiana. In a statement, Environmental ProtectionÃâà...
OilPrice.com
February 23, 2018
The gasoline-producing fluid catalytic cracking unit (FCCU) at the 227,586-bpd Convent refinery, as well as the alkylation unit with 16,500 bpd capacity, are planned to be shut for an overhaul this summer, after Shell scrapped plans in November last year to permanently close the gasoline-producing unit atÃâà...
Inquirer.net
February 22, 2018
BATANGAS CITY—A team of 12 climate activists belonging to the group Greenpeace on Wednesday scaled a jetty of Shell Philippines at its refinery here and unfurled banners, pressing the fuel company to take part in an ongoing investigation into greenhouse gas emissions. Shell, in a statement, said itÃâà...
Greenpeace International
February 20, 2018
Batangas, Philippines, 21 February 2018 – Activists from Greenpeace Southeast Asia, Philippines unfurled a banner reading “PEOPLE AND PLANET, NOT PROFIT” from Shell's Batangas oil refinery today, sending a sharp reminder to Shell to attend upcoming hearings into the responsibility of big fossilÃâà...
The Advocate
February 19, 2018
In this aerial photograph about 10 miles upriver from New Orleans, the Shell Norco Manufaturing Complex, an oil refinery, is seen in St. Charles Parish, La., Sunday, Jan. 10, 2016. The Mississippi River is above left, and the Bonnet Carre Spillway, which is used to divert river water to Lake Pontchartrain,Ãâà...
KQED
February 15, 2018
State Sen. Bill Dodd, D-Napa, wants to triple some of the most serious penalties local air districts can levy against oil companies when their refineries violate emissions regulations. Dodd, who represents a district that's home to refineries owned by Shell, Tesoro and Valero, introduced legislation onÃâà...
The Advocate
December 31, 1999
Bench for reflection, and bollards have been installed around a stand of trees which contains the remnants of the approximately 3/4-acre Monroe Plantation Cemetery, seen off La. 44 near the Shell Convent Refinery, background right. The River Road African Burial Grounds Coalition, Shell, and the BurialÃâà...
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