Posts under ‘Shale Gas’

Royal Dutch Shell has crushed any hopes it might kickstart a British shale gas boom, saying nobody knows whether shale will succeed in the UK and it has no desire to be the company that tries to find out. By Emily Gosden 10:12PM BST 02 May 2013 In a blow to Government attempts to attract [...]

By BENJAMIN ALTER and EDWARD FISHMAN A version of this op-ed appeared in print on April 28, 2013, on page SR5 of the New York edition JUST as the world was writing off America as a declining power, the country now finds itself on the cusp of realizing one of its longstanding goals: energy independence. [...]

FINANCIAL TIMES The development of shale oil and gas reserves around the world will generally be much slower than in North America, a senior executive at Royal Dutch Shell has warned. Andrew Brown, Shell’s head of international oil and gas production, said… FULL ARTICLE

By Bloomberg News – Mar 26, 2013 8:09 AM GMT Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSA) will spend $1 billion developing China’s shale gas reserves, according to Peter Voser, the company’s chief executive. Shell has won government approval for its production sharing contract with China National Petroleum Corp., the nation’s biggest oil and gas company, Voser [...]

Selection of links to Shell related articles kindly supplied by a regular contributor Shell issues oil production warning in Nigeria: Las Vegas Sun-Shell said in a statement Tuesday that it was declaring “force majeure” on shipments of Bonny Light crude oil after it shut down its Nembe … Norway’s Arctic idyll shivers at oil plans: [...]

UK Shale Gas Numbers Could Be Stratospheric By Peter C Glover EXTRACTS Should we? Shouldn’t we? While Europe dithers over whether the blatant economic success of the US shale gas ‘miracle’ will translate to these shores, the UK Government has been slightly more pro-shale active. But, while the threat of (liberal democrat-instituted) over-regulation still casts [...]

BY SIMON HALL SINGAPORE—Royal Dutch Shell said it may be less than two years away from a major advance in shale gas production in China, bringing the country closer to being the first outside of North America to cash in on technology that has transformed the U.S. energy industry. Unlocking the gas trapped inside China’s [...]

Decades ago, the world was told it was running on empty. Today, we have more oil than we need. What’s fuelling the boom in black gold? By Brian Viner: 19 Feb 2013 On the evening of April 18 1977, President Jimmy Carter invited television cameras into the Oval Office and portentously announced to the American [...]

18 December 2012 * Shell to focus on larger shale plays * To build water recycling plant using royalty credits * 4-year moratorium was due to end By Jeffrey Jones CALGARY, Alberta, Dec 18 (Reuters) – Royal Dutch Shell Plc has scrapped plans for a coalbed methane gas project near Canada’s Pacific Coast in the [...]

Shell has reignited speculation about a potential takeover of BP… Anglo-Dutch oil group’s boss says a takeover was considered in past two years and refuses to deny it has dropped the idea Terry Macalister guardian.co.uk, Friday 14 December 2012 22.04 GMT Shell has reignited speculation about a potential takeover of BP after its chief executive [...]

Monday, 3 December 2012 Royal Dutch Shell’s chief executive Peter Voser says the US economy is set for a revolution as the country becomes self-sufficient in energy. He tells HARDtalk’s Sarah Montague that as new oil discoveries and shale gas comes on stream, jobs will move back to the US from abroad, manufacturing costs will [...]

Ahead of the Government’s gas strategy, Shell chief executive Peter Voser reveals why it is the fuel of the future and how he is riding the shale revolution. Peter Voser believes Shell is creating value out of the whole of the production and supply chain and that its exposure to gas growth is the jewel [...]

Selection of Shell related articles Tuesday 13 November 2012 John, A few articles which may be of interest to your visitors: Shell’s Arctic challenges just beginning: Anchorage Daily News-6 hours ago: Shell Oil photoThe Noble Discoverer prepares for its initial Chukchi Sea … BARROW — Even if Shell strikes oil in the Beaufort and Chukchi [...]

By Anthony DiPaola – Nov 12, 2012 6:33 AM GMT Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSA)’s joint venture shale gas developments in China may contain resources on a par with similar developments in the U.S. “The geology is akin to what we have experienced in the U.S.,” Matthias Bichsel, the company’s global director of projects and [...]

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. [...]