The Hague (AFP) Sept 21, 2012 - Royal Dutch Shell counter-attacked against Greenpeace on Friday, asking a judge to ban the group protesting near any of its property, with a million-euro fine as the cost of flouting the ruling.
London (AFP) Sept 28, 2015 - Anglo-Dutch energy giant Royal Dutch Shell said Monday it had scrapped its controversial offshore exploration in Alaska after failing to find sufficient quantities of oil and gas.
London (AFP) Sept 17, 2012 - Royal Dutch Shell on Monday said it was delaying until next year exploratory drilling for oil in offshore Alaska after suffering damage to a dome used to contain any potential spills.
London (AFP) Sept 8, 2008 - Anglo-Dutch oil giant Shell said Monday it would evacuate all its offshore personnel working in the Gulf of Mexico, now threatened by Hurricane Ike.
Port Harcourt, Nigeria (AFP) Sept 09, 2013 - Anglo-Dutch energy giant Shell held compensation talks in Nigeria on Monday with leaders of a community devastated by two massive oil spills in 2008, activists said.
London (AFP) Sept 6, 2007 - Anglo-Dutch oil firm Royal Dutch Shell on Thursday defended standards at its Argentina operations after authorities there closed a Shell refinery near Buenos Aires on environmental grounds.
London (AFP) Sept 28, 2015 - Royal Dutch Shell said Monday it was halting its search for oil off the Alaskan coast, with environmentalists claiming a huge victory in their battle to protect local wildlife.
London, England (AFP) Sept 06, 2013 - Shell is to begin compensation talks with thousands of Nigerian villagers who say their livelihoods were ruined by two massive oil spills in the Niger Delta, the energy giant said on Friday.
London (AFP) Sept 3, 2025 - British oil giant Shell announced Wednesday it has abandoned construction of one of Europe's largest biofuel plants in the Netherlands, as it focuses on its fossil fuels business.
Cape Town (AFP) Sept 1, 2011 - Anglo Dutch energy giant Shell said Thursday that shale gas could potentially meet South Africa's future energy needs if controversial fracking drilling uncovered large deposits.
Paris (AFP) Sept 24, 2013 - Shale oil and gas may be massive untapped energy sources, but the risks of extracting them has drawn calls for tighter regulation or an all-out ban.
Albany CA (SPX) Sep 29, 201 - With the help of genetic materials from a cow's rumen, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists are developing new ways to break down plant fibers for conversion into biofuel.
Paris (AFP) Sept 02, 2014 - Driven by the quest for an abundant, non-polluting alternative to fossil fuel, scientists said Tuesday they had developed a method to produce propane using sugar and the gut bacteria E. coli.
Abqaiq, Saudi Arabia (AFP) Sept 20, 2019 - Saudi Arabia vowed Friday to quickly restore oil production as it revealed extensive damage to key oil plants following weekend aerial strikes, which have been blamed on Iran by Washington.
Riyadh (AFP) Sept 28, 2016 - Saudi Arabia's navy will hold exercises in the Gulf and the strategic Strait of Hormuz early next week, the navy chief said on Wednesday, as tensions simmer with Iran.
Riyadh (AFP) Sept 26, 2019 - Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman hosted Iraq's Prime Minister Adel Abdel Mahdi for talks on Wednesday focused on attacks on the kingdom's oil infrastructure, which Washington has blamed on Iran.
