You can make your own sea monster by taking the shell off a remote controlled boat with a decent sized motor and replacing it with a plastic crocodile head.
The author begins his travels in Nigeria, where Royal Dutch Shell started off Africa's relationship with the modern oil industry by striking black gold in the Delta region in 1958.
The fuel on board the rig is used to power equipment and is not the result of the drilling operations Shell conducted off the North Slope, on the opposite side of the vast state from where the Kulluk now rests.
These are crustaceans that survive by dragging around a cast-off mollusc shell for protection and shelter.
Shell may have come off looking bad, but so did everyone else involved.
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In a meeting with investors in November, Shell CEO Peter Voser ticked off how the firm is investing today to capitalize on long-term global demand.
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While the foundations were being dug, a steel-and-timber-framed shell of the house was built off-site.
And as the economy changed, a lot of people wrote off Cleveland as a shell of its former self.
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Unaccountable foreign bureaucrats and jurists will surely prove even more intractable than was the EPA when, to cite but one recent example, Shell Oil sought permission to explore off the coast of Alaska.
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Two dot balls followed before Bilal Shafayat was caught at short fine-leg, Kevin O'Brien walked in front of a straight one and Jake Ball, on his one-day debut, looked shell-shocked as Smith trimmed his off bail.
In parts of Angola, putting a tortoise shell under your door is meant to ward off your rivals' muti.
This week it seemed poised to allow Shell to start prospecting in the icy waters off the north coast of Alaska.
Gloucester went off the field for the break completely shell shocked but they gave themselves a glimmer of hope with Walker's third penalty on 43 minutes.
He can show off his muscular claws and craggy barnacle encrusted shell to the world.
He sold off the oilfields and filled in the remaining shell with a gold mining company, renaming it Royal Gold.
Among the largest underlying components of VEU, in trading today Royal Dutch Shell Plc ( NYSE: RDS.A) is off about 0.2%, GlaxoSmithKline Plc ( NYSE: GSK) is up about 0.5%, and Total S.A. ( NYSE: TOT) is up by about 0.8%.
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Instead of working on his thesis, Keith spent most of two years holed up in the family garage, stripping the body off a Triumph Spitfire and building a new shell from scratch, using foam and 700 pounds of plaster of paris.
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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Mervyn Jacobson read about Simons' bumpy journey and was smitten with the idea of finding value in junk DNA. In 1989 they formed GeneType and applied for their first patent covering noncoding regions and HLA. In 2000 GeneType pulled off a reverse merger with a publicly traded Australian shell company that formerly mined for gold.
If approved, and ExxonMobil can build the barge as planned, it could be in production by the year 2020, about four years after Royal Dutch Shell commissions its FLNG vessel atop the Prelude gas field, also off the west Australian coast.
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Among the largest underlying components of VEA, in trading today Vodafone Group Plc ( NASD: VOD) is up about 0.5%, BP p.l.c. ( NYSE: BP) is off about 0.2%, and Royal Dutch Shell Plc ( NYSE: RDS.A) is lower by about 0.1%.
Shell began work on its planned well in the Chukchi Sea, about 90 miles off the Alaskan North Slope, on Sunday.
For foreign majors like Royal Dutch Shell PLC and BP PLC, their former heartlands in the Gulf sands are now largely off-limits.
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In a big blow for Royal Dutch Shell, the Obama administration has blocked the drilling of exploratory wells in the Arctic Ocean off the North Slope of Alaska until 2011 at the earliest.
The Shell sign hovered, its colors dulled, a corner of it broken, or maybe bitten off.
Whether a Landesbank could hive off its domestic activities into a private venture and leave the public part an empty shell is questionable.
Meanwhile, Shell is looking for ways to make its money-losing U.S. natgas business pay off.
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Shell first obtained licences from the US Department of the Interior in 2005 to explore the Arctic ocean off the northern and north-western coasts of Alaska.
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.
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