Washington (Platts)–26Apr2011/533 pm EDT/2133 GMT
Shell’s president for US operations on Tuesday called talk of exporting shale gas premature, at least politically.
“We’re still waking up to the fact that we have this enormous energy resource in our backyard,” Marvin Odum said at the US Energy Information Administration’s conference in Washington. “It completely changed the way we look at energy as a country.”
“I think we finish that realization process and then have the political debate about whether exporting some of that energy is something we allow to happen or not.”