Others, such as Shell and ConocoPhillips, are accused of unwittingly handling the contraband.
Then there were years of delays as Shell made improvements to the Kulluk rig to meet draconian EPA regulations on diesel emissions.
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But as Shell has shown in spades, the operational risks are enormous.
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As Shell is still in the early stages of developing some of these U.S. assets, it will take time and money to convert them into meaningful cashflow.
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During the good years of booming equity markets and low inflation, such schemes did so well that some companies, such as Shell and Philips, made a profit with their workers' pension arrangements.
His Conoil Producing, which was founded as Shell Company of Nigeria in 1927 and privatized in 2000, is one of Nigeria's largest independent oil companies, with a production capacity of 100, 000 barrels per day.
Second, as Shell President John Hofmeister pointed out in his testimony, prices are shooting skyward in part because of rising demand in China and India, the rising cost of materials and labor, and international events, such as supply disruptions in the Niger Delta.
This can be awkward inside complicated structures such as the shell of a car.
And as the economy changed, a lot of people wrote off Cleveland as a shell of its former self.
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This fact is extremely obvious when you compare the materials used in all the Big Agnes models as the shell of the Horsethief was decidedly more breathable than its counterparts.
He had collapsed between wicker sofa and African coffee table, his legs hairless and white as wax, his stomach a great pale mound, and his face as pinched and pink as crab shell.
These include some of the world's leading companies, such as BMW, Lloyds, Nestle, Philips and Shell, as well as US government departments and the UK's Parliament.
However, Total, the French national champion, could see a takeover of Shell as a fitting encore to its well-executed acquisition of Elf.
His war was brought to an end when he was wounded by shrapnel from a German shell as he returned from the front line.
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Belcher now runs evolution on fast-forward but under different conditions, trying to make new materials as amazing as an abalone shell that are more useful for humans.
To work across the technological bottlenecks, Chinese companies have formed joint ventures with players such as Royal Dutch Shell and Chesapeake Energy seeking to gain access to technology.
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It is hoping this activity will win the attention of the biggest international oil firms, such as Royal Dutch Shell, which discovered Camisea but later sold its Peruvian holdings.
On the first night of the February summit, Ultra Light Startups will host one of its Future Energy events sponsored by a variety of entities, including Shell as the Platinum Sponsor.
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If built as planned, Shell's two GTL plants (one scheduled to open in 2008-09 and the second in 2010-11) will have a combined daily capacity of 140, 000 barrels, as compared with Sasol's two 34, 000-barrel-a-day plants in Nigeria and in Qatar.
The banks that will be allowed to bid are those that are small, such as Virgin Money or the shell company NBNK, or foreign, such as National Australia Bank.
Malaga, which was making its debut in the competition, was left shell shocked as it suffered a heartbreaking exit.
Livi travel to Coatbridge on Saturday in the first round of the Co-operative Insurance Cup and Rovers manager Martin believes the footballing authorities must pay closer scrutiny to the books as clubs continue to shell out cash they do not have.
And a left hook to the head wobbled Afolabi in the sixth as he retreated into his shell.
The company, after all, was a true pioneer in mobile phones, even as it has become a shell of its former self.
They point to BP and Royal Dutch Shell in particular as having bred a culture of denial about the problem.
On 22 September a light shell, known as a Whizz Bang, exploded above his head killing three members of his team.
Australia had 45 minutes to survive before the close, but were left shell-shocked as Edwards and Powell wreaked havoc with the new ball.
The battery is located within a carbon-fibre monocoque which forms an integral part of the body shell and acts as the gullwing model's "spine".
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Adshead says that if Gazprom and the soon-to-go-public Rosneft were as transparent as ExxonMobil and Royal Dutch Shell, they might double their market values.
Or alternatively, Apple could have set up a new shell company, as they did when buying the iPad name off Proview, not that that worked out entirely wonderfully.
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