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KIRKLAND, Wash. - Pulled in to fill up with premium or "plus" gasoline in the past few days only to find the pumps dry? You're not alone. Shell stations across Puget Sound are finding it tough to keep fuel in stock. The shortages are affecting shell gas stations. First they run out of the higher-end gasolines and then finally the regular unleaded runs dry as well. Assistant manager Paleia Hopper at a busy Shell station in Kirkland had to turn customers away Friday, losing close to $4,000 in fuel sales. "So when we don't have gas, what do we do?"...

<p>Shell Cuts Reserves, Finds Less Oil Than It Pumped (Update10) Jan. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Royal Dutch/Shell Group, Europe's second-largest oil company, cut its estimate of proved oil and gas reserves by 20 percent and failed for a third year to find as much oil as it pumped. The shares fell as much as 7.8 percent.</p>

RIO JOURNALAn American Family Abroad: Horror Strikes in the Night By TONY SMITH IO DE JANEIRO, Dec. 2 — The detectives at Rio de Janeiro's homicide division are a world-weary bunch, inured to the horrors of violent crime by their daily hunting down of killers in one of the world's most dangerous cities. But the grisly assault last weekend that left Zera Todd Staheli, a 39-year-old American oil executive, dead and his wife, Michelle, 34, in a coma has shocked even the most case-hardened officers. [Michelle Staheli died of her wounds early Thursday, Reuters reported.]According to the police chief, Álvaro...

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil - An American executive with Shell oil company was found slain in his Rio home, and the city's top police official said Monday investigators are trying to determine how attackers entered the heavily guarded house. Todd Staheli, 39, vice president for joint ventures in the Southern Cone gas and power unit of oil giant Shell, was found dead Sunday morning by one of his four children. His wife, Michele Staheli, suffered face and head wounds and remained in critical condition Monday at the Copa D'Or Hospital following emergency brain surgery. Mrs. Staheli is "in a deep...

Shell's Activity in Iran RestrictedFree Iran at ActivistChat.comTEHRAN -- “The activities of Royal Dutch Shell Oil Company will be restricted in Iran.” said an informed official in an interview with ILNA (Iran Labor News Agency) adding: “One of the main factors behind the restriction is the probable involvement of the Shell Oil Company in revealing Iran’s classified information including the country’s peaceful nuclear energy activities.” In response to questions posed by ILNA’s correspondent, Shell Director General, Robert Wiener said: “As part of the plan on regionalizing Shell’s exploration and production departments, the company will transfer some of its staff in...