MATT CHAMBERS: Resources reporter, Melbourne: 28 July 2017
Royal Dutch Shell chief executive Ben van Beurden has said he is very supportive of Malcolm Turnbull’s moves to impose export restrictions to increase domestic supply on the east coast, where Shell runs the Queensland Curtis LNG project. But the oil major has revealed there have been some unspecified operational problems at QCLNG, which exports coal-seam gas from Gladstone. Speaking on a second-quarter earnings call in London last night, Mr Van Beurden backed the Prime Minister’s intervention in the markets, which gives the government the power to restrict exports from any LNG project that is not a “net contributor” to domestic markets. FULL ARTICLE