Energy Report

Monday, February 12, 2007

For oil-market analysts, caution remains rule of thumb (The Wall Street Journal Europe, 12 Feb 2007, Page 20)

For oil-market analysts, caution remains rule of thumb

By Spencer Swartz

The Wall Street Journal Europe

12 Feb 2007



The global oil market has gone from one set of clement conditions to another in recent months with barely a hitch. A quiet U.S. hurricane season last autumn posed no risks to oilproduction facilities. And although cold weather in the U.S. and Europe... read more...

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Danish lead green initiative

Danish lead green initiative

By Leila Abboud

The Wall Street Journal Europe

12 Feb 2007



Since the oil shocks of the 1970s, governments around the world have paid plenty of lip service to renewable energies such as wind and solar power. But few have tackled the challenge as aggressively as Denmark, which now uses renewables for more than... read more...

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Britain needs to move away from unstable energy suppliers B Britain needs to move away from unstable energy suppliers

Britain needs to move away from unstable energy suppliers B Britain needs to move away from unstable energy suppliers



The Business

10 Feb 2007



Y THE end of this decade, Britain will have become an importer of both natural gas and oil, a radical change for a country used to plentiful North Sea reserves. By 2020, Britain will be relying on potentially unreliable and politically unstable... read more...

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Monday, February 05, 2007

Royal Dutch Shell encounters a sticky patch in its oil field prospects

Royal Dutch Shell encounters a sticky patch in its oil field prospects

RICHARD ORANGE

The Business

03 Feb 2007



MOST of the world’s leading oil companies were founded on an oil gusher; Royal Dutch Shell started with a ship. Marcus Samuel, a London trader, built the Murex, the world’s first oil tanker, to ferry Caspian oil to Europe, breaking John D... read more...

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Shell hires Bush’s environmental adviser

Shell hires Bush’s environmental adviser

Terry Macalister

The Guardian

05 Feb 2007



Gale Norton, a former interior secretary for the Bush administration and a supporter of opening up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and other sensitive environmental landscapes for oil production, has taken up a senior legal post at Shell. The... read more...

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