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By Rob Davies: PUBLISHED: 01:07, 1 May 2013 | UPDATED: 01:07, 1 May 2013 Royal Dutch Shell has pipped French rival Total to a multi-billion-dollar project to develop a difficult gas field with Abu Dhabi’s National Oil Co. The deal gives the Anglo-Dutch oil supermajor a chance to prove the effectiveness of its latest sour [...]

By BENJAMIN ALTER and EDWARD FISHMAN A version of this op-ed appeared in print on April 28, 2013, on page SR5 of the New York edition JUST as the world was writing off America as a declining power, the country now finds itself on the cusp of realizing one of its longstanding goals: energy independence. [...]

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 [...]

Image courtesy NASA/GSFC/JPL, MISR Team Eye on the Arctic: April 16, 2013 Although Royal Dutch Shell has announced a hiatus this summer for exploring the Beaufort Sea and Arctic Ocean off of Alaska, the energy giant isn’t slowing down.  Shell has signed an agreement with Russian energy giant Gazprom, allowing it to explore and develop [...]

Published April 09, 2013 by Dow Jones Newswires Russia’s natural gas monopoly OAO Gazprom (GAZP.RS) and the Netherlands’ Royal Dutch Shell PLC (RDSB.LN) have agreed to jointly explore and produce offshore hydrocarbon resources in the Russian Arctic, Gazprom said in a statement released late Monday. The agreements cover the exploration and development of hydrocarbons in [...]

City Diary: Russia and the Netherlands cement special relationship with Shell drilling deal By Harriet Dennys, City Diary Editor 8:30AM BST 10 Apr 2013 Good to see Vladimir Putin looking for leadership guidance on his trade tour of the Netherlands. Not from Shell chairman Jorma Ollila – although the pair’s date to sign off the [...]

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FINANCIAL TIMES The prospect of accessing Russia’s Arctic oil could offer some consolation to Shell, which has suffered big setbacks in its efforts to drill in the Arctic waters off the north coast of Alaska. Gazprom Neft, which is the oil arm of the state energy champion, and Shell declined to comment. FULL ARTICLE

Royal Dutch Shell is poised for a fresh attempt at Arctic oil exploration through a deal with Russia’s Gazprom Neft, the Kremlin revealed on Thursday night.   By Emily Gosden: 7:54PM BST 04 Apr 2013 The companies are preparing to sign an agreement that will cover joint offshore drilling in the Russian Arctic as well [...]

By Alexei Anishchuk MOSCOW, April 4 | Thu Apr 4, 2013 11:16am EDT (Reuters) – Gazprom Neft and Royal Dutch Shell will agree to drill for shale oil in Western Siberia and explore Russia’s Arctic shelf when President Vladimir Putin visits the Netherlands next week, the Kremlin said. The deals underscore the Kremlin’s drive to [...]

By Olga Tanas & Stephen Bierman – Apr 4, 2013 4:00 PM GMT+0100 OAO Gazprom Neft, the oil arm of Russia’s natural gas exporter, plans to expand its partnership with Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSA) to develop shale oil in Siberia and Arctic offshore blocks, according to a Kremlin official. Gazprom Neft and Shell will [...]

Selection of links to Shell related articles kindly supplied by a regular contributor Multiple contamination law suits against Shell in 2012: Breaking News Trinidad and Tobago-Shell Oil Company (including subsidiaries and affiliates, referred to collectively as SOC), along with numerous other defendants, has been … Russia adopts Texas drilling to revive Soviet oil fields: FuelFix [...]

Selection of links to Shell related articles kindly supplied by a regular contributor ExxonMobil Witness in Trial Says MTBE Raised Cancer Risk: Bloomberg: Shell Oil Co., Sunoco Inc., ConocoPhillips (COP), Irving Oil Ltd., Vitol SA and Hess Corp. settled before the trial began. The New Hampshire … Five reasons the Keystone XL pipeline is bad [...]

Selection of links to current Shell related articles kindly provided by a regular contributor Heat on Nigeria oil industry as sector chiefs meet: Daily Nation-Major oil industry executives gather in Nigeria’s capital for an annual … by government ministers and top officials from oil majors Shell, Exxon, … Oil and Gas Feeding Off Each Other [...]

BUILD UP TO SHELL RESERVES SCANDAL: Comments by leading Shell execs: “…the market will want to know whose head is going to roll for what they will see as blatant deception.”; “this is potential dynamite for management credibility and the share price”; “…how you have to break the detail of this news in September, assuming [...]