A technician compares samples of lubricant oil in the control laboratory at Royal Dutch Shell Plc’s new lubricants blending plant in Torzhok, Russia. Photographer: Andrey Rudakov/Bloomberg By Eduard Gismatullin on November 01, 2012 Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSA)’s third-quarter profit expanded 2.3 percent after Europe’s biggest oil company generated increased earnings from liquefied natural gas. [...]
Shell Profit Increases on Income From Liquefied Natural Gas
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Betting on Gas, Shell Floats Plan on High Seas
By STANLEY REED: 12 November 2012 A version of this special report appeared in print on November 13, 2012, in The International Herald Tribune. THE HAGUE — At a shipyard on a South Korean island called Geoje, an army of welders and metal cutters are beginning to assemble what is by many measures the largest [...]
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Shell Expects to Invest More Than $20 Billion in Gas by 2015
By Eduard Gismatullin on November 14, 2012 Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSA), Europe’s largest oil company, has earmarked more than $20 billion to spend on natural-gas projects through 2015 as profit from extracting, processing and selling the fuel soars. “Our integrated-gas earnings have more than trebled in the last five years, reaching $9 billion over [...]
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Shell may feed Arrow gas into rivals’ Australian LNG plants
Tue Nov 20, 2012 2:35am EST * Final investment decision likely delayed for Arrow LNG * Shell may sell gas to rivals’ LNG plants * Cost blowout still an issue -source * Decision not to move forward with plant would be prudent -analysts By Rebekah Kebede and Sonali Paul PERTH/MELBOURNE, Nov 20 (Reuters) – Royal [...]
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Shell May Delay Australia’s Arrow LNG Project to 2014, CEO Says
By Bloomberg News – Nov 20, 2012 10:07 AM GMT Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSA), the world’s biggest liquefied natural gas supplier, may delay until 2014 a decision on its Arrow LNG venture that’s forecast to cost $20 billion amid rising expenses for energy projects in Australia. “We are in preparation of a potential final [...]
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Shell head dismisses floating LNG concerns
The head of Shell in Australia, Ann Pickard, has dismissed claims that floating liquefied natural gas technology is environmentally unsafe. By Kathryn Diss The head of Shell in Australia, Ann Pickard, has dismissed claims that floating liquefied natural gas technology is environmentally unsafe. The WA Premier Colin Barnett has expressed concerns about using floating technology [...]
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Shell to move gas centre as Asia LNG comes to the fore
By Sarah Young LONDON | Wed Dec 5, 2012 6:24pm GMT (Reuters) – Royal Dutch Shell (RDSa.L), the world’s biggest LNG company, will move the headquarters of its integrated gas business to Singapore from Europe as part of its quest to feed Asia’s surging demand for the fuel, the company said on Wednesday. “It will [...]
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Shell says no need to rush Australia Gorgon LNG expansion
PERTH | Wed Feb 20, 2013 5:01am EST Feb 20 (Reuters) – There is no need to rush the expansion of the $52-billion Gorgon liquefied natural gas (LNG) complex, the chairman of Shell Australia said on Wednesday, adding that the company wanted to avoid distraction while it kept the project on track. Shell holds a [...]
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Selection of links to Shell related articles: 21 February 2013
Selection of links to Shell related articles kindly supplied by a regular contributor ExxonMobil Witness in Trial Says MTBE Raised Cancer Risk: Bloomberg: Shell Oil Co., Sunoco Inc., ConocoPhillips (COP), Irving Oil Ltd., Vitol SA and Hess Corp. settled before the trial began. The New Hampshire … Five reasons the Keystone XL pipeline is bad [...]
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Selection of links to Shell related articles: 27 February 2013
Selection of links to Shell related articles kindly supplied by a regular contributor The Race For California’s Shale Is On!: Daily Reckoning-Natural gas is plentiful and oil is coming to the surface, more each day. … Indeed, if New York goes the way of shale, the road may be paved for California. … characters include: [...]
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Is Shell STILL anti-Semitic?
“So is Shell STILL anti-Semitic, or is it simply because doing business with Israel would upset the rulers of Saudi Arabia, yet another tyrannical regime in bed with Shell? One Country swims in oil. The other doesn’t. Perhaps that has something to do with it?” By John Donovan In March 2011 we published an article [...]
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Shell puts last remaining Australian refinery on sale, delivering a ‘hammer blow’ to Geelong
Matt Chambers and Stuart Rintoul From: The Australian April 04, 2013 5:30PM ROYAL Dutch Shell is putting its Geelong refinery up for sale, threatening the jobs of more than 500 workers in a city unions say is “already on its knees”. The oil giant says if it can’t sell the refinery, it will consider turning [...]
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No delays from Prelude rig issues: Shell
Peter Klinger, The West Australian April 4, 2013, 6:21 am Royal Dutch Shell says the development schedule for the industry-leading Prelude floating LNG venture in the Browse Basin has not been affected by technical problems that have beset its drilling rig. The Shell-chartered Noble Clyde Boudreaux had been out of action for more than a [...]
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No chance for Shell refinery sale: analyst
ABOUT 450 fearful Shell refinery workers in Geelong face a long wait for a lifeline that analysts and unions doubt will ever come. The petroleum giant has announced plans to sell its last remaining Australian refinery, but if it can’t find a buyer by the end of 2014 to keep it open, it may convert [...]
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Shell sale fuels jobs fears – 600 jobs on the line
UP to 600 local jobs are on the line after Shell announced it is selling the Geelong refinery it opened in 1954. Shell’s Geelong workers and senior management were told the news yesterday morning, just moments before a public announcement that the company was putting the refinery up for sale. While workers were told not [...]
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Shell pushes floating technology as James Price Point alternative
Matt Chambers From: The Australian April 12, 2013 2:19PM WHILE Woodside Petroleum chief executive Peter Coleman declined to publicly debate the prospects of the three stated alternatives to a $45 billion Browse LNG development at James Price Point because it is a joint venture decision, Royal Dutch Shell, his biggest shareholder and the biggest indirect [...]
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Highest-Paid Workforce Driving Shell Offshore Australia: Energy
Royal Dutch Shell Plc’s Prelude vessel, seen here in an image illustration, vying to be the first floating LNG facility in the world, will be as long as the Empire State Building and six times the weight of the largest aircraft carrier. Source: Rex Features via AP Images April 26, 2013 Escalating costs to build [...]
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Departing Shell chief Ann Pickard faces icy challenge
Barry FitzGerald From: The Australian April 30, 2013 12:00AM THE number of powerful business women on the local scene is to become even more sparse with the return of Shell’s boss for Australia, Ann Pickard, to her native America, where she will become executive vice-president of Shell’s environmentally controversial exploration and production interests in [...]
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Pickard Teleportation into an Arctic Role
I have provided links to secret US cables/articles exposing Shell’s infiltration of the supposedly sovereign Nigerian government and the involvement of Pickard in all manner of murky goings on, including trading intelligence information with the Americans. Ann Pickard will be arriving with more baggage than a Samsonite factory. By John Donovan Ann Pickard, currently the [...]
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Arctic beckons for Shell’s Pickard
Peter Klinger, Business Editor, The West Australian April 30, 2013, 7:07 am Ann Pickard, who has transformed Royal Dutch Shell into the most aggressive oil and gas player in Australia, is set to leave her powerful Perth-based post to look after the Anglo-Dutch giant’s ambitions in the Arctic Circle. Shell is thought to have informed [...]
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