Closure of the Shell Lubricants facility at the Port of Vicksburg will mean the loss of 24 jobs in the Mississippi River city.
August 26th, 2009:
Shell Closing Vicksburg Lubricants Plant
Netherlands Protest Against Planned Shell Carbon Storage project
The Dutch government aims to cut down on carbon dioxide emissions by developing Carbon Capture Storage or CCS. Royal Dutch Shell has plans to take on this government project but is delayed because of opposition from locals in the town of Barendrecht, a suburb of Rotterdam.
Arrow Energy to Spend A$300 Million Seeking Gas for LNG Plants
Aug. 26 (Bloomberg) -- Arrow Energy Ltd., Royal Dutch Shell Plcs Australian partner in coal-seam gas production, will spend A$300 million ($251 million) drilling wells to supply gas to two planned liquefied natural gas plants in Queensland.
Australia island gas deal sealed
The project on Barrow Island will be run by US oil firm Chevron, and partners Royal Dutch Shall and Exxon Mobil, and will supply gas to China.
$50b question: Gorgon carbon claims in doubt
Technical experts working with Gorgon's developers, Chevron, Shell and ExxonMobil, found it was possible that carbon dioxide could leak from faults in the geological formation under the island which is supposed to act as the burial site.