Archive for the 'Offshore' Category
A green oil industry: a contradiction in terms..
0 Comments Published by Andy Rowell January 18th, 2010 in Arctic oil, Offshore, Public Relations, oil industry outlook, tar sandsNo one would like to consider their job to be an oxymoron, essentially a contradiction in terms.
But that is what you could describe the job title for the editor of a new online magazine called “Greening of oil magazine”.
The new mag says it will be dedicated to “tracking energy’s environmental footprint”, but you could argue [...]
Shell Tells Senate: You are Hypocrites
1 Comment Published by Andy Rowell November 20th, 2009 in Arctic oil, Offshore, US politicsWe are used to calling Big Oil hypocrites, saying one thing and doing something completely different.
But yesterday, it was their turn to stick the label on the politicians during an influential Senate hearing into the emotive subject of off-shore drilling.
Executives from two major oil companies told Congress they were hypocrites for locking up offshore resources, [...]
“We’ve got an environmental disaster unfolding”
0 Comments Published by Andy Rowell October 28th, 2009 in Offshore, Pollution, impact on wildlifeAnd so it goes on. We may be able to send people to the moon but we are not able to stop a simple leak on an oil rig.
Over two months after Thailand’s PTTEP’s well sprung a leak in the Timor Sea, the oil continues to pour into the sea at a rate of some [...]
Drilling in the Arctic? Yes We Can…
2 Comments Published by Andy Rowell October 21st, 2009 in Arctic oil, Offshore, impact on wildlife, indigenous rightsThe joke going round Europe is that the only reason that President Obama won the Nobel Peace prize is that he is not President Bush. It’s not who he is but who he is not, that matters.
He might not be President Bush but Obama is continuing the mistakes of the Bush era. In fact he [...]
The New Arctic Oil Rush Begins
0 Comments Published by Andy Rowell September 14th, 2009 in Arctic oil, Offshore, impact on wildlifeAnyone who regularly reads this blog – or any other oil-related one – will know that the oil majors are running out of places to find oil.
That’s why countries with huge reserves such as Iraq and Libya are seen as so important.
The vast majority of known reserves are locked up in the Middle East, or [...]
