[caption id="attachment_4803" align="alignleft" width="242" caption="Sandison/Greenpeace"][/caption] “Don’t Worry” - be happy – that is Tony Hayward’s birthday message to his staff. Hayward has returned home to London to chair a crisis board meeting, trying to give his staff an upbeat message....
One of the ongoing tragedies of the Exxon Valdez oil spill is that thousands of people who worked on the cleanup are sick, have gotten sick, and continue to die from inhaling the lethal cocktail of oil and dispersant. The...
So now it is official. What everyone has suspected for the last month, we now know to be true. The Deepwater Horizon spill is now the largest in US history. Yesterday President Obama attacked BP over America’s ‘worst oil disaster’,...
BP’s spin machine kicked up another gear yesterday as the company started airing adverts on American television showing the company’s embattled Tony Hayward apologising to those affected by the spill. “We will get this done. We will get this right,”...
It is a damning document that may well decide Tony Hayward’s fate. It will certainly give him sleepless nights before his Congressional appearance on Thursday. Remember what Hayward said a few weeks ago. “This was not our accident … This...
Five years ago, I co-authored a book called “The Next Gulf- London, Washington and Oil Conflict in Nigeria”, that - as the title suggested - looked at the interlinked nature of oil politics from America, the UK and West Africa....
Having written about Shell in Nigeria for over fifteen years, we have known that there was huge internal disquiet about the company’s operations in the country. In the aftermath of the murder of Nigerian writer Ken Saro-Wiwa in 1995, Shell...
Pardon the title, but the Wall Street Journal has an extremely interesting interview with the top dog at Shell, Peter Voser. He admits that Shell is fast becoming a gas company rather than an oil company. “Shell started quite a...
Ask any oil executive where our future energy will come from and they will reply that the answer lies in "the mix": arguing we need oil, gas, renewables and probably nuclear. The oil industry argues that its days as the...
As the 17 year old lawsuit between oil giant Chevron and the Ecuadorian Indians draws to a close, the plaintiffs are arguing that they have uncovered damning new evidence that could seriously undermine the oil company’s legal case. Texaco drilled...
