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.
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 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 (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.
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 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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
Riyadh (AFP) Sept 20, 2022 - Oil giant Saudi Aramco's chief on Tuesday blasted unrealistic energy transition plans, calling for a new global energy consensus, including ramped-up investments in fossil fuels to address painful shortages.
Paris (AFP) Sept 18, 2009 - The leaders of France and Germany called Friday for the United Nations to support a carbon tax on imports from countries who fail to back international efforts to fight global warming.
