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Noble Oil appears to own Royal Shell. At Christine Rosamond’s funeral reception, a very rich and powerful man BULLIED me in front of my mother. I believe this was Sally Green’s husband who invited my sister and members of my family out to Rocky Point where an alleged accident took her life. The mere citizens of Washington State have taken a offshore oil driller, hostage. The wealthy owners of the Lone Cypress Tree, have taken that tree, hostage. The Truth has been taken hostage!
BIG BULLY was not made in America, nor do they fly Old Glory. The blacks in Maryland need jobs! There are shipyards there. It’s time to take Bankers and Oil Pirates, hostage! These bloodsuckers are foreign entities who are only loyal to one another. Now is the time for true patriots to step forth and save our Beautiful Land and Democracy!
Jon Presco
Aboard the Noble Bully 1, Gulf of Mexico—The Noble Bully 1, a new kind of drill ship developed by Royal Dutch Shell PLC to help extract oil in once inaccessible regions of the deepest oceans, doesn’t look anything like a conventional vessel of its kind. Equipped with a new generation of digital technologies, the ship—a 30,270 gross ton behemoth that is the length of two football fields—is able to guide a 21.5 inch wide drill bit thousands of feet below the surface to the center of a target that is only about four by four feet in size.
Technology on the Bully, which includes built-in GPS, wind sensors, motion sensors and compasses, a hydraulic system, and computer-controlled thruster propellers on the bottom of the vessel, allows Shell to drill wells with new precision.
A storage tank attached to an oil well damaged by recent flooding spilled 7,500 gallons of crude oil into the Cache la Poudre River near Windsor in Northern Colorado, reported the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission (COGCC) late Friday afternoon. The oil well and tank are one of thousands that are placed too close to waterways in Colorado despite environmentalists’ attempts to fight the oil and gas industry and change state regulations to better protect Colorado’s lakes, rivers and streams.
The spill was discovered by the tank’s operator Noble Energy and later reported to the COGCC. All the contents of the tank, 178 barrels of oil, spilled into the river. High river flows that undercut the bank where the storage tank was sitting way too close to the river, caused the tank to drop and breaking a valve.
Clean-up crews are trying to absorb the spilled oil and a vacuum truck removed oily water from a low-lying area near the tank, according to a local news report. This spill falls right in front of an election on Tuesday, June 24, for a local moratorium on fracking in the nearby city of Loveland, and at the outset of a statewide ballot initiative in the fall of 2014 to further limit fracking in Colorado. Radio, TV and newspaper airwaves are under a deluge of advertising by the oil and gas industry to try and stop the moratoriums and ballot initiatives.
In the suit, ConocoPhillips argued the chain of transfer and requested summary judgment. Noble responded with its own summary judgment motion, arguing that Elysium purchased only certain liabilities during Alma’s bankruptcy so there was no privity of contract, that the bankruptcy court discharged all claims and liabilities against both Alma and Elysium, and that Noble Energy never owed an interest in or operated the property, among other arguments.
After a series of back-and-forths, the trial court granted Noble’s motion for summary judgment, finding as a matter of law that Noble was not a party to, did not assume and was not assigned, and otherwise had no obligation under a contract to indemnify or perform other obligations.
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In 2005, along with its purchase of the Kulluk, Shell bid $44 million for 84 blocks of seabed in the Beaufort Sea. In 2006 it hired a subcontractor, Frontier Drilling, now part of the Noble Corporation, to staff and operate the Kulluk. In 2007, it bid another $39 million to double its Beaufort holdings. In 2008, it paid a record-breaking $2.1 billion on leases in the Chukchi. Over time, it spent $292 million to upgrade the Kulluk. (The original purchase price for the rig was never disclosed.) From its North American headquarters in Houston, where executives oversaw logistics in the distant Arctic, Shell fought off lawsuits from environmental and native groups. It waited out the moratorium on offshore drilling imposed as a result of BP’s Deepwater Horizon disaster.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/05/19/opponents-arctic-oil-drilling-block-entrances-to-seattle-port/
On Monday, protesters of all ages sang, rapped and danced at the vehicle gate of Terminal 5. They chanted and held signs saying “Climate Justice For All” and “You Shell Not Pass.”
Lisa Marcus, 58, a musician who participated in Saturday’s protest, turned up with her “Love the planet” sign for another day of activism Monday.
“We’ve got to wake up” to the dangers of human-caused climate change, she said, ticking off a list of environmental problems that the world is facing. “Shell is trying to make it worse, and that’s not acceptable.”
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Kayakers, or “kayaktivists”, as they have sought to rebrand themselves, will be splashing their oars in Seattle’s port to protest against drilling and exploration for oil in the Arctic – something the giant rig they will be facing off with, Polar Pioneer, is meant to do for oil giant Shell starting this summer.
“We here in Seattle do not want Shell in our port. We want them to get out and change their business before they change our planet and destroy the life of future generations,” said Annette Klapstein, a 62-year-old retired attorney and member of activist group the Raging Grannies.
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Shell was forced to halt its Arctic exploration in 2012 amid a series of severe security mishaps.
Environmental groups and scientists reacted to Monday’s news badly, warning that letting Shell back into the Arctic for exploration and drilling was very likely to cause an ecological disaster and contribute to climate change.
According to a US government study from this year, chances of an oil spill occurring as a result of drilling in the Arctic over the next 77 years are as high 75%.
These are figures well known to community members and activists in Seattle.
To Klapstein, the correct analogy is that of a plane crash.
“Can you imagine being told to get on a plane that has a 75% chance of crashing? Who gets on a plane that has a 75% chance of crashing?”
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/may/15/seattle-kayak-tivists-shell-arctic-oil-drilling
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VMdRrbGLlo
Royal Dutch Shell plc (LSE: RDSA, RDSB), commonly known as Shell, is an Anglo–Dutch multinational oil and gas company headquartered in the Netherlands and incorporated in the United Kingdom.[2] Created by the merger of Royal Dutch Petroleum and UK-based Shell Transport & Trading, it is the fourth largest company in the world as of 2014, in terms of revenue,[1] and one of the six oil and gas “supermajors“.
Shell is also one of the world’s most valuable companies.[3] As of January 2013 the largest shareholder is Capital Research Global Investors with 9.85% ahead of BlackRock in second with 6.89%.[4] Shell topped the 2013 Fortune Global 500 list of the world’s largest companies.[5] Royal Dutch Shell revenue was equal to 84% of the Netherlands’ $555.8 billion GDP at the time.[6]
Royal Dutch Shell plc (LSE: RDSA, RDSB), commonly known as Shell, is an Anglo–Dutch multinational oil and gas company headquartered in the Netherlands and incorporated in the United Kingdom.[2] Created by the merger of Royal Dutch Petroleum and UK-based Shell Transport & Trading, it is the fourth largest company in the world as of 2014, in terms of revenue,[1] and one of the six oil and gas “supermajors“.
Shell is also one of the world’s most valuable companies.[3] As of January 2013 the largest shareholder is Capital Research Global Investors with 9.85% ahead of BlackRock in second with 6.89%.[4] Shell topped the 2013 Fortune Global 500 list of the world’s largest companies.[5] Royal Dutch Shell revenue was equal to 84% of the Netherlands’ $555.8 billion GDP at the time.[6]
Mr. Loeb helped conceive and now manages the Noble Bully drill ship that was developed by Shell and Frontier Drilling, now owned by Noble Corp. It is drilling wells for Shell in the Mississippi Canyons section of the Gulf about 120 miles south of New Orleans. It’s an important place in the history of deepwater drilling—Shell made the first deepwater discovery, called Cognac, there in 1975. And in 2010, the canyons were the site of the historic Deepwater Horizon spill. The Horizon, drilling about 40 miles south of the Louisiana shore, at the Macondo field, sank and caused catastrophic damage. A second ship using the same design, the Noble Bully 2, operates off the coast of Brazil.
The Noble Bully 1 is drilling wells for a new platform, to be called Olympus, which will provide the infrastructure for two deepwater developments, West Boreas and South Deimos. The Olympus will be a tension leg platform—meaning that it will float in the sea like a cork, tethered to the ocean floor with cables.
The project, known as the Mars B development, has made use of new technology from start to finish. The area was explored in 2007 by an exploration vessel using a new kind of seismic technology called Ocean Bottom Sensing, which replaced older, fixed cables outfitted with underwater listening devices with lighter, movable lines closer to the floor of the Gulf. The technology is now used by other companies as well, according to Shell. The new sensors can pick up more data—echoes of sonic blasts sent out by an exploration ship—than older generations. The data are then analyzed using artificial intelligence developed by Shell, and rendered in 3D and 4D maps of the oil reservoirs, using computer chips similar to those found in advanced video games. The analysis of the data is handled by Shell scientists working onshore, and the finished visualizations are available to the crew of the drill ship
http://blogs.wsj.com/cio/2013/01/02/big-oils-big-data-push-changing-the-future-of-energy/
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/04/magazine/the-wreck-of-the-kulluk.html
http://www.adn.com/article/shell-drillship-may-have-legal-troubles-horizon
http://www.law360.com/articles/656044/noble-fights-defense-duty-in-conocophillips-oil-pollution-row
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