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By 2023, a Changed World in Energy By CLIFFORD KRAUSS: A version of this article appeared in print on April 25, 2013, on page F1 of the New York edition HOUSTON IF you could close your eyes for just a moment like Rip Van Winkle, and blink them open in 2023, you might see a [...]

By Eduard Gismatullin on December 03, 2012 Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSA) is expanding plans to make liquefied natural gas a fuel for ships and trucks as Europe’s largest energy producer looks to profit from the cheapness of U.S. gas compared with oil. Shell, where gas production overtook oil for the first time this year, [...]

Royal Dutch Shell’s Alaska vice-president has admitted he believes “there will be spills” by companies drilling for oil in the Alaskan Arctic. Environmental campaigners oppose drilling in the Arctic By Emily Gosden 6:35PM GMT 29 Nov 2012 Shell is one of a handful of companies exploring in Arctic waters and began drilling off Alaska this [...]

By Bryan Walsh | @bryanrwalsh | July 20, 2012 Royal Dutch Shell is set to begin drilling in the Arctic waters off Alaska beginning next month, assuming the Obama Administrations doesn’t hold off on needed permits at the last-minute. (With President Obama fighting for re-election—and fighting the charge that he’s anti-energy—don’t bet on it.) That [...]

Posted 04/20/2012 I’ve got one question for President Obama: What is it going to take for you to put a stop to Shell’s plans for Arctic Ocean drilling this summer? The reasons not to drill just keep mounting — and the reasons to drill? Well, there seems to be just one, and I can’t say [...]

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FIRST PUBLISHED IN JUNE 2010 Shell’s latest corporate advertisement followed by candid commentary/analysis by Paddy Briggs (right)… LET’S DELIVER ENERGY FOR A CHANGING WORLD. LET’S GO Today’s consumers are smarter than ever about energy. Naturally they want it to heat, cool and light their homes, get them to work, and power their mobile phones. But [...]

The Associated Press June 8, 2010, 11:51AM ET AMSTERDAM Royal Dutch Shell PLC said Tuesday it has purchased a stake in U.S. biotech startup Virent Energy Systems Inc., a company that turns plant sugars into fuel closely resembling gasoline. Shell declined to disclose terms of the deal. It will receive a seat on the board [...]

The Deepwater Horizon spill, which is threatening swaths of the Gulf of Mexico’s coast, again raises questions about how rigorously safety and environmental regulations are enforced Tim Webb The Observer, Sunday 2 May 2010 Washington, 5am, Tuesday: a tired Tony Hayward, chief executive of BP, was finally patched on to the conference call. At the [...]

28 March 2010 – Issue : 879 The Anglo-Dutch oil major Royal Dutch Shell Plc look set to be grilled again by environmental group Greenpeace. The latest action by Greenpeace would focus on their exploitation of Canadian oil sands, according to local media reports. Greenpeace reportedly plans to launch more short-term actions to disrupt production [...]

Besides ExxonMobil’s big bet, Royal Dutch Shell and China’s biggest oil company are spending billions of dollars buying shale and coal seam companies in Australia with a view toward converting it into LNG and shipping to China.

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL MARCH 8, 2010 Peter Voser of Royal Dutch Shell talks about the kind of energy legislation he’d like to see These days, giant oil companies find themselves trying to balance two big pressures on their business. Governments are trying to slash carbon emissions—but the world’s thirst for oil is growing by [...]

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL March 4, 2010, 12:55 PM ET By Jim Carlton and Neal Lipschultz Despite recent defections of two other oil majors, Royal Dutch Shell PLC has opted to stay in an influential lobbying group that has focused on shaping climate-change legislation, Chief Executive Officer Peter Voser said. Mr. Voser, speaking Thursday at [...]

REUTERS By Poornima Gupta SANTA BARBARA, Calif., March 4 (Reuters) – Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSa.L) expects electricity-powered vehicles to account for as much as 40 percent of the worldwide car market by 2050, Chief Executive Peter Voser said on Thursday. Voser, speaking at The Wall Street Journal’s ECO:nomics conference in Santa Barbara, said technological [...]

Eric Wesoff 03 04 10 “It’s fun to be an oil and gas CEO.” Santa Barbara, CA — Peter Voser, CEO of Royal Dutch Shell, traveled a long way to speak at the Wall Street Journal ECO:nomics show this morning.  To give you an idea of the mindset of this particular audience, when polled on [...]