But oil giant Shell, which accounts for about half of Nigerian oil production, said shipments were continuing "undisrupted", as senior managers took over posts from striking workers.
Mr. TERRY O'CONNOR (Oil Shale Program, Shell Oil Company): It's called the in-situ conversion process or the acronym, ICP.
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Case in point: Oil majors like Exxon Mobil, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, BP 's BPAmerica and Shell Oil USA, a unit of Royal Dutch Shell.
That was the case in Kiobel, which involved Nigerian plaintiffs suing a Nigerian subsidiary of the oil giant Shell for alleged actions taking place in Nigeria.
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To create the fuel, the researchers, who were funded by the oil company Shell and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, used a strain of E. coli that usually takes in sugar and then turns it into fat.
The agreement was signed onto by Shell Oil and the Environmental Defense Fund, among others.
Odum, president of Shell Oil, argued that new drilling technology and industry standard-setting would allay these concerns.
The man worked for Shell Oil, which wanted to build a new gas station down the block.
Those fears were heightened recently by the Kulluk accident - a Shell oil rig that ran aground in Alaska.
But now, Shell Oil Company hopes to change all that with a radical new twist: Bring the heat to the rock.
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His larger concern: Shell Oil, which occupies a breathtaking 850, 000 square feet in buildings near his, hasn't yet committed to stay.
The move "will give us time to ensure the readiness of all our equipment and people", said Marvin Odum of Shell Oil.
King Hubbard, associate director of the Exploration and Production Research Division at Shell Oil Company, quantitatively mapped the future of oil production.
Some of the most thoughtful comments came from a representative of one of the worst offenders, Bill Spence of Shell Oil.
Everyone from Gwyneth Paltrow to the social media teams for Shell Oil and Chick-fil-A may find his take reassuring.
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Last year saboteurs knocked out a Shell Oil pumping station in the south of the country that will take 18 months to repair.
To that end, it announced a number of partnerships with big consumer brands, including InterContinental Hotel Group, Bass Pro Shops and Shell Oil.
Those oil companies, Shell and Exxon among them, which have a strong international presence have clearly outperformed those with a mainly domestic focus.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) A Shell oil-drilling ship that ran aground near a remote Alaska island has been refloated, officials said early Monday.
The Shell Oil hoax did not announce itself as a parody (though a discerning viewer could detect it), and so neglects the second standard.
Shell Oil, frustrated last year by lawsuits filed by environmentalists and Alaskan natives, is eager to start exploiting its leases in the Beaufort Sea.
So why team up with Shell Oil in the ARPA-E forum?
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Solar Frontier, a Japanese company that is part of oil company Showa Shell, built a 900-megawatt factory and began shipment from there in early 2011.
"The numbers I've seen on possible NTdeployments are staggering, " says Moores, a former Shell Oil programmer who speaks in brief bursts while scanning messages on his portable organizer.
The north west of England has been the worst hit region so far, with the Stanlow Shell Oil Refinery at Ellesmere Port in Cheshire blockaded since Thursday night.
According to Davis and company folklore, founder Danny Evins (a Shell Oil jobber) was on the highway headed for the zoo in Atlanta back in 1969 when lightning struck.
The quay will be built on the site of a former Shell oil refinery on the South bank of the Tees, which has been lying vacant for around 20 years.
Shell Oil Vice President Paul Goodfellow said this is the first time the company and environmental groups have reached agreement to create an entire system for reducing the effects of shale drilling.
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