Woodside, 34 percent owned by Royal Dutch Shell Plc, fell as much as A$1.61, or 4.2 percent, to A$36.69 on the Australian stock exchange and was at A$36.79 at 1:24 p.m. in Sydney. The decline was deeper than the drop of as much as 3.6 percent in the exchanges benchmark energy index.
April 22nd, 2009:
Woodside Must Meet Safety Order to Restart Oil Field
Statoils Arctic Status Threatened as Exxon, Shell Make Bids
April 22 (Bloomberg) -- StatoilHydro ASAmay see its dominance eroded in Norways Arctic as Exxon Mobil Corp. and Royal Dutch Shell Plc bid in the countrys first frontier oil and natural-gas licensing round for three years.