LONDON, April 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Shell and BP have posted a combined profit of $7.2 billion. Shell (US$3.9 billion) and BP (US$3.3 billion) for the first quarter of 2008.

Graham Tran, Unite Regional Officer, said "These profits are a slap in the face for 180 staff at Shell who were told less than seven days ago that they face redundancy.

Furthermore, both Shell and BP have announced pension holidays for 2008 at a time when our members in Grangemouth are fighting to protect their pension fund.

Despite these huge profits there is still an unacceptable backlog of maintenance work on Shell installations in the North Sea. The continued failure to address this issue shows that Shell are not making the necessary investments in safety."

PARIS, April 29 /PRNewswire/ --

- Alcatel-Lucent to Serve as Network Integrator and Supply Key Elements of its IMS Portfolio to Enable Belgacom to Offer Fixed and Mobile Multimedia Services

Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) today announced it has been selected by Belgacom (Euronext Brussels: BELG), the Belgian leading telecom operator, as its technology and network integration partner to design, integrate, and deploy an end-to-end multi-vendor IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) solution. The platform will enable Belgacom to effectively support and to further develop a wide variety of fixed and mobile services including voice over IP (VoIP) and multimedia communications for both residential and business customers.

CALGARY, Canada, April 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Addax Petroleum Corporation (TSX: AXC and LSE: AXC) ("Addax Petroleum" or the "Corporation") will announce its financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2008 on Tuesday, May 6, 2008, and will discuss its financial results in a conference call on Tuesday, May 6, 2008 at 11:00 a.m. Eastern Time / 4:00 p.m. London, U.K. time. Mr. Jean Claude Gandur, President and Chief Executive Officer, Mr. James Pearce, Chief Operating Officer, and Mr. Michael Ebsary, Chief Financial Officer, will discuss the Corporation's most recent financial and operating results.

DUBLIN and NEW YORK, April 29 /PRNewswire/ --

- Announces First Close of EUR75 (US$117) Million

- Largest Life Science Venture Capital ("VC") Fund Launched in Ireland

- One of the Largest Emerging Manager VC Funds Raised in the Life Science Sector Globally

- Headquartered in Dublin, Fountain Will Invest the Majority of its Capital in Europe With a Primary Focus on Ireland

Fountain Healthcare Partners ("Fountain") today launches and announces the first close of its inaugural fund, Fountain Healthcare Partners I, with EUR75 (US$117) million of committed capital.

LONDON, April 29 /PRNewswire/ --

- Moneybookers Reveals Movement of Money by Migrants Working in the UK

Moneybookers, one of Europe's largest online payment systems, is today revealing the movement of money out of the country by migrants working in the UK. Foreign workers living in the UK are typically sending GBP200 per month to their friends and relatives back home, although this figure rises to GBP550 for French migrants.

ZURICH, Switzerland, April 29 /PRNewswire/ --

- NGOS Join Forces to Protect Cetacean Populations in the Region

The conservation status of whales and dolphins in the Mediterranean Sea is of growing concern due to increasing pressure from human activities. Unknown to most people, about 15 different species of whales and dolphins can be found in the Mediterranean Sea and eight of them regularly. The situation of three whale and dolphin species - sperm whale, common dolphin and bottlenose dolphin - is critical and one - the orca in the Strait of Gibraltar - is in immediate danger of extinction.

LONDON, April 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Peter Voser, CFO at Royal Dutch Shell, will host a live media presentation at 10:00BST (11:00 CEST/05:00 EDT) followed by a live analyst presentation at 14:00BST (15:00CET/09:00EDT) to discuss the group's Q1 results. On-demand replays will be available later today.

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VANTAA, Finland, April 29 /PRNewswire/ --

- Lamor Prevents the Spreading of Aquatic Nuisance Species

Lamor Group, a world leader in oil spill response and environmental technologies with headquarters in Finland, expanded its business operations to new fields of environmental technology by acquiring full ownership of American ballast water treatment manufacturer Hyde Marine, Inc., based in Cleveland Ohio, USA. The acquisition is part of Lamor's growth strategy.

LONDON and BOSTON, April 29 /PRNewswire/ --

- Number of vendors increases, as several mainland European and U.S.-based vendors vigorously expand UK presence

UK content technology buyers enjoy increasingly diverse choices when considering enterprise content management, search, portal and web analytics technologies, according to CMS Watch, a buyer-oriented analyst firm that evaluates content technologies.

These findings come in conjunction with Internet World UK, to be held at Earls Court London 29 April -- 1 May, where CMS Watch Principals Alan Pelz-Sharpe and Theresa Regli will speak in several sessions.

GOTHENBURG, Sweden, April 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Cellectricon, a leading provider of screening solutions for drug discovery, announced today that its board of directors has appointed Jonas Ohlsson as the company's Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Ohlsson brings a solid and highly relevant track record to Cellectricon as the company now enters a phase of rapid expansion. During 2008-2009 Cellectricon will launch two large-scale screening systems: revolutionizing pre-clinical pharmaceutical development.