Laurel Andrews | Jun 18, 2012 The race is on between energy companies to be the first exporter of Canadian liquefied natural gas (LNG) to Asia, Bloomberg reports. The competition comes as Alaska’s leaders continue to struggle with developing the North Slope vast natural gas fields, the largest proven reserves of conventional gas in North [...]
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Shell upbeat about Alaskan prospects
Published: June 18, 2012 at 8:27 AM WASHINGTON, June 18 (UPI) — Washington recognizes the strategic importance of untapped oil reserves off the coast of Alaska, an executive from Shell said. Shell aims to launch a drilling campaign in the coming months in the Beaufort and Chukchi seas off the Alaskan coast after having its [...]
Shell Says It Reduced Nigeria Gas Flaring 60% in Nine Years
By Elisha Bala-Gbogbo on June 18, 2012 Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSA), operator of Nigeria’s largest oil fields, said the flaring, or burning, of natural gas at its deposits in the West African country fell by more than 60 percent in the past nine years. “Flaring dropped by more than 60 percent from over 0.6 [...]
Potential political impact exportation of US LNG could have in international markets
FROM A REGULAR CONTRIBUTOR John Here is an article on the potential political impact the exportation of US LNG could have in international markets. Canada may likewise have huge reserves of gas that would only add ‘fuel to the fire’, no pun intended. North American Natural Gas is Fueling an International Political … The issue/target [...]
Shell Shock – The Secrets and Spin of an Oil Giant
FROM OUR ARCHIVES… Shell Shock – The Secrets and Spin of an Oil Giant: “The financial wires and reporting services went into meltdown. In banks, boardrooms, newsrooms, bourses, investment offices and oil ministries across the world, there was incredulity and disbelief. Careful, ultra-conservative, Calvinist Royal Dutch/Shell caught by its own admission massaging the numbers? And [...]
How Shell changed its culture and lost its way
FROM OUR ARCHIVES… Financial Times: How Shell changed its culture and lost its way By Ian Bickerton Published: June 17 2004 21:36 Posted 18 June 2004 It is rare to find Royal Dutch/Shell in openly confessional mood. Yet as Jeroen van der Veer, its managing chairman, stood with the applause of the oil group’s 400 [...]
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