Shell Oil

Shell's Record Profit Fueled By High Oil Prices

AP | TOBY STERLING | Posted 08.08.2008 | Business


AMSTERDAM, Netherlands — Royal Dutch Shell PLC reported a 33 percent jump in second-quarter profits Thursday, its biggest quarter ever at $11.6 ...

Hydrogen Is The Answer ... Uh, Isn't It?

Steve Parker | Posted 08.05.2008 | Green


Steve Parker

If Obama is sworn in, how can he best get us on the road to using hydrogen, along with wind and sea power, as a critical element in producing electricity for this country ... and for our cars?

Shell Opens Hydrogen Station In Los Angeles

NPR | Celeste Headlee | Posted 07.15.2008 | Green


Click to listen. There's a Shell gas station in West Los Angeles where you can fill up with hydrogen instead of gasoline. Shell began the pilot proje...

Unearthed: News of the Week the Mainstream Media Forgot to Report

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Brendan DeMelle | Posted 07.04.2008 | Media


Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Brendan DeMelle

Government report links extreme weather to global warming, traffic pollution to childhood allergies, Denver Police stockpiling pepper weapons and Rumsfeld got torture advice from Army psychologists.

The F Word: Shelling Out for Shell

Laura Flanders | Posted 06.28.2008 | Politics


Laura Flanders

Of 46 international oil companies, including firms from China, India and Russia that had their eye on the first major oil deals in post-Saddam Iraq, guess who got the gig? Exxon-Mobil, Shell, Total and BP!

Shell Shuts Down Nigerian Oil Field After Attack

AP | EDWARD HARRIS | Posted 06.27.2008 | Business


LAGOS, Nigeria — Militants in speedboats raided an oil installation off Nigeria's southern coastline on Thursday, forcing Royal Dutch Shell to s...

Corporations' Plea for Climate Legislation Ignored

Janet Ritz | Posted 06.14.2008 | Green


Janet Ritz

The need for the United States to lead by example through legislation has never been greater. Unfortunately, the need for change in Washington may have superseded that consideration.

Oil Execs to Congress: I Drink Your Milkshake

Chris Kelly | Posted 05.31.2008 | Politics


Chris Kelly

Supply and demand is one factor in determining price, but another factor used to be called "competition." Again, I'm not an economist, but I'm pretty sure that was supposed to drive prices down.

Oil Chiefs Say High Prices Not Our Fault

AP | H. JOSEF HEBERT | Posted 04.09.2008 | Business


WASHINGTON — Don't blame us, oil industry chiefs told a skeptical Congress. Top executives of the country's five biggest oil companies said Tues...