The cruiser then sailed into the channel and started to fire shell after shell at us.
The Shell card once offered a straightforward 5% rebate on Shell gas purchases.
"Shell is in this game to gain an advantage, " says Wim Walk, manager of new geophysical technologies at Shell.
Case in point: Oil majors like Exxon Mobil, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, BP 's BPAmerica and Shell Oil USA, a unit of Royal Dutch Shell.
Mr Lissouba blamed his rival, but a 122mm gun was clearly visible next to the presidential palace, firing shell after shell over the river into Kinshasa.
Some of Shell's brightest longer-term gas prospects are in Saudi Arabia, where Shell has done business since the 1940s and helped build chemical plants.
Shell foresees a gas processing plant and two side-by-side pipelines across the Andes toward Pisco, where Shell sees scope for a world-scale petrochemicals park.
But Frito-Lay didn't want its Doritos name on just any taco shell, so it created a special, crunchier shell for the Doritos Locos Tacos.
The credit will only apply to the first 100 gallons of Shell fuel purchased with your Shell Platinum Select MasterCard in that billing cycle.
During the painting of the shell, a rod was inserted straight through the car allowing the shell to be spun round as it was painted.
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The process involves removing the snails from their shell, cleaning and boiling them, then stuffing the shell with a mixture of butter, herbs, garlic and the meat before baking them.
Khan added that he met with the Shell chairman, Jorma Ollila, while at Davos and that Shell is committed to a new liquid natural gas terminal for Pakistan.
There are other cases on the horizon too, the Transform Shell and Flip Shell, which feature build in kickstands and basic protection in standard black or bright red.
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Many types of clam escape predators by burrowing into the sea bed using alternating movements of their shell and of the soft, muscular foot contained within that shell.
They spoke to retired Shell employees and spent two days--all they were allowed--in Shell's data room, scouring for updated information and digging through trash looking for signs of rival bidders.
However, in one case, it found subsidiary Shell Nigeria culpable of neglecting its duty of care and ruled that: "Shell could and should have prevented this sabotage in an easy way".
And, because it knows you have a Shell credit card, what if it offered you a 10-cent-per-gallon discount if you stop at a certain Shell station in the next 10 minutes?
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In fact, to maximize its tax savings, Google shuffled its income to Ireland, then to shell companies in Bermuda and then to another shell in the Netherlands and finally back to Bermuda.
They point to the Sakhalin-2 project off Russia's Far East coast, where Gazprom gained majority control from Royal Dutch Shell last year, after Russian authorities refused to give Shell environmental clearance for the scheme.
During the hearing, the inquest also heard the shell had been manufactured in 1981 and propellants could have degraded with age, but on Thursday the MoD said the shell was two to three years old.
Wendel Broere, a Shell spokesman in the Netherlands, repeats that claim, adding that its Nigerian operations are just 30% owned by Shell, and 55% owned by the Nigerian government (two other European companies have stakes).
Indeed, the biggest difference between Shell and Chevron in the United States (aside from Alaska) is that Chevron has long been more focused on oil, while Shell gets a bigger portion of its production from natural gas.
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In its ruling Wednesday, the Hague Civil Court rejected most of a landmark case brought by Nigerian farmers and environmental pressure group Friends of the Earth against Shell, saying the leaking pipelines were was caused by saboteurs, not Shell negligence.
One ejection seat shell ripped through an oak tree and crashed into a condo fence, and the other seat shell landed next door, suggesting that the two Navy pilots ejected at a low altitude, another resident, Keith Gutkowski, told CNN.
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Picture Frame Innovations, for example, is a shell company armed with a patent that had once been held by IV, and though it is unclear if IV retained a stake in it, the shell has sued Eastman Kodak and Hewlett-Packard for infringement.
Shell's first quarter results were also boosted by proceeds from asset sales, which included sales in its pipeline business in the United States, its liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) venture in Vietnam and the majority of Shell's shareholding in its downstream business in Uganda.
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Royal Dutch Shell also reported declines in their fourth quarter profits, and blamed lighter European demand, lower natural gas production (Exxon) along with a high demand for equipment and skilled workers and the difficulties involved in tapping reserves in politically unstable regions (Shell).
Shell published a summary of the report's final version on Monday, along with the news of Ms Boynton stepping down. (Shell says it was asked by American regulators not to reveal the full report, raising speculation that the Department of Justice may be planning criminal prosecutions).
Crabs that had been shocked but had remained in their shell appeared to remember the experience of the shock because they quickly moved towards the new shell, investigated it briefly and were more likely to change to the new shell compared to those that had not been shocked.
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