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Royal Dutch Shell News 2 November 2018
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Royal Dutch Shell News 18 October 2018
Shell comments on deepwater vs. shale: Seeking Alpha: 18 Oct 2018
Shell bets on shale for flexibility in energy transition: Financial Times:17 Oct 2018
Shell’s $31 Billion Gamble On Canadian LNG: Seeking Alpha: 17 Oct 2018
Shell Exits Denmark’s Offshore Oil and Gas Sector: The Maritime Executive: 17 Oct 2018
Royal Dutch Shell News 13 October 2018
Shell’s greener future is a matter of survival: The Telegraph 13 Oct 2018
Shell launching new retail fuel pilot programs in U.S.: Houston Chronicle 12 Oct 2018
Shell Makes a Comeback in the North Sea With New Gas Field Investment: OilVoice 12 Oct 2018
Exclusive: Shell seeks to sell Venezuela JV stake to France’s Maurel & Prom – sources: Reuters 12 Oct 2018
Royal Dutch Shell News 2 October 2018
Latest Royal Dutch Shell news round-up. Includes a report that Shell CEO Ben van Beurden is meeting this week with Putin, God Father of the Russian mafia. The head of a corrupt regime that kills opponents even if they are living in the UK. A regime that sends assassins using outlawed radioactive and chemical weapons on UK soil and then protects the assassins after they return to Mother Russia. Proof positive that as in the past, Shell is prepared to deal with evil dictators. So much for Shell’s claimed ethical code.
Putin to meet Shell CEO in Moscow – Kremlin aide
Putin can briefly meet Shell CEO during Russian Energy week
Gazprom, Shell signed agreement on development of technical concept for Baltic LNG
Free Gas! Alberta Market Looks Forward to Shell Export Project
Shell-Led LNG Project Bucks Trend by Not Waiting for Buyers
Shell Approves Long-Awaited Canadian LNG Project
Shell, Partners Announce $31 Billion LNG Canada Investment
Shell, Eni venture to pay $1.1B to settle Kazakhstan dispute
Greenwashing is an elusive CSR attempt
Royal Dutch Shell News 14 Sept 2018
The Canadian Press: Hina Alam: September 13, 2018: 4:23 PM EDT: Last Updated September 13, 2018. 7:32 PM EDTVANCOUVER — Shell Canada Ltd. has given up its offshore exploration rights, clearing the way for the creation of Canada’s first protected marine area under the Canada Wildlife Act. The company voluntarily released permits for about 50,000 square kilometres in an area off British Columbia’s coast to allow for the creation of the Scott Islands marine National Wildlife Area. FULL ARTICLE
LNG project in B.C. to hire mainly Canadian workers for $40-billion terminal construction
LNG Canada will hire primarily Canadian workers to build a planned terminal to export liquefied natural gas from Kitimat, B.C., newly released briefing notes for B.C.’s NDP minority government show. The employment strategy is in sharp contrast to the abandoned plans by now-defunct rival Pacific NorthWest LNG, which would have use far more foreign workers for a site near Prince Rupert, according to the notes ministry officials prepared for Premier John Horgan and Energy Minister Michelle Mungall. Royal Dutch Shell PLC and four co-owners of LNG Canada are expected to decide by the end of 2018 whether to forge ahead with the massive project in Kitimat. FULL ARTICLE
‘Shell close agreement for mega-investment in Canada’
Printed below is an English translation of an article published today by the Dutch Financial Times, Financieele Dagblad. 
‘Shell close agreement for mega-investment in Canada’
Bert van Dijk • Entrepreneurship
Is it going through or not? That question keeps Canada busy these days. Is Shell about to give the final green light for one of the largest investments this year in the fossil energy sector: the construction of an immense factory to produce liquid gas (LNG)? Cost: $ 30 billion. Shell works together with three partners in the project: Petrochina, Korea Gas and Mitsubishi.
Shell ramps up in Kitimat, raising Canada’s $30B LNG hopes
NATALIE OBIKO PEARSON, BLOOMBERG: July 9, 2018
A flurry of activity is raising optimism that Royal Dutch Shell Plc and its partners are ready to go ahead with the nation’s largest infrastructure project: a $40 billion liquefied natural gas terminal that could at last unlock energy exports to Asia.
The action is unmistakable in Kitimat, the Pacific coast city hugging a deep inlet that would be the closest launch point on the continent for LNG cargoes to Asia. The lights are on, shades open and SUVs parked outside a 49-unit apartment complex built to house Shell executives, which sat mostly darkened for the last two years. Local workers have left jobs at a Rio Tinto Plc smelter nearby to join contractors ramping up for the LNG project. Landlords are raising rents and houses are selling twice as fast as they used to in anticipation of a flood of workers coming to town.
Royal Dutch Shell: Streamlining Assets
Jun. 30, 2018 12:54 AM ET
Summary
- Renewal of assets with great focus on the future.
- Natural gas as energy source will continue to grow.
- Share buybacks and generous dividends.
Background
Royal Dutch Shell (NYSE:RDS.A) (NYSE:RDS.B) has been actively focusing on what kind of business it wants to be involved in. Part of this activity is to change the composition of its assets. It has been selling plants and oil licenses, and invested where it wants to position the company.
Disposals have also been done to reduce the total debt level. Much of the debt came from the $35 billion acquisition of BG Group back in March of 2016.
Disposals
Early this year, Shell communicated that its plans were to leave oil and gas operations in as many as 10 countries and instead focus more heavily on gas-rich Australia and shale opportunities in the United States.
Petronas Takes 25% Stake in Shell-Led Canadian LNG Project
By Elffie Chew and Natalie Obiko Pearson: 31 May 2018
(Bloomberg) — Malaysia’s Petroliam Nasional Bhd. agreed to take a 25 percent equity stake in a proposed liquefied natural gas project in Canada led by Royal Dutch Shell Plc. The Canadian unit of Shell will hold a 40 percent stake, while subsidiaries of PetroChina Co. and Mitsubishi Corp. will have a 15 percent share each, according to a statement from Thursday from Petronas. A unit of Korea Gas Corp. will hold 5 percent. The announcement confirmed an earlier Bloomberg News report that a deal was imminent. FULL ARTICLE
Malaysia’s Petronas buys 25 percent stake in LNG Canada project
Shell will continue to be the biggest owner in LNG Canada, holding a 40 percent stake.
Reuters Staff: MAY 31, 2018
SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Malaysia’s state-owned oil and gas company Petroliam Nasional Bhd [PETR.UL] said on Thursday it is buying a 25 percent stake in a Canadian liquefied natural gas (LNG) export project, nearly a year after cancelling its own planned terminal. The company, known as Petronas, will buy an equity stake in LNG Canada, an export project led by Royal Dutch Shell located in Kitimat, British Columbia, said Petronas in a statement. The purchase is expected to close in the next few months, the company said. FULL ARTICLE
LNG Canada committed to starting construction on project in 2018: CEO
Julie Gordon: MAY 15, 2018
VANCOUVER (Reuters) – The chief executive of the LNG Canada project on British Columbia’s northern coast said on Tuesday that the company was committed to starting construction on the C$40 billion ($31.1 billion) liquefied natural gas export project this year. An investment decision on the terminal was delayed in 2016, due to sagging oil prices that hit cash flows, along with an unfavorable supply-demand outlook, but remains on track for 2018, Andy Calitz said at an LNG conference on Tuesday. FULL ARTICLE
Shell ‘cautiously optimistic’ about LNG Canada project, exec says
|By: Carl Surran, SA News Editor
Royal Dutch Shell’s (RDS.A, RDS.B) is “cautiously optimistic” about its proposed LNG Canada project in Kitimat, B.C., ahead of a potential final investment decision this year, says Shell Canada president Michael Crothers. “We’re getting cost estimates finalized [and working] on the economics,” Crothers says, noting the Shell-led partnership recently chose Fluor and Japan’s JGC for the project’s engineering, procurement and construction. FULL ARTICLE
Shell to Sell Canadian Natural Resources Stake for $3.3 Billion
Shell seeking to sell $30 billion in assets to cut debt
A unit of Royal Dutch Shell Plc has agreed to sell its entire stake in oil sands producer Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. for about $3 billion, which will be used to reduce debt. Shell Gas BV will sell its 97.6 million shares in Canadian Natural for total pretax proceeds of $3.3 billion, and the transaction is expected to be completed by Wednesday, according to a statement from Hague-based Shell. The shares are being offered at $34.10 each, according to a person familiar with the matter, a 2.9 percent discount to its close Monday in New York. FULL ARTICLE
Shell to sell stake in Canadian Natural for about $3.3 bln
Reuters staff: Monday 8 May 2018
May 7 (Reuters) – Royal Dutch Shell Plc’s Shell Gas B.V. unit said on Monday it was selling its entire stake in Canadian Natural Resources Ltd for $3.3 billion.
Shell signed an underwriting agreement for the sale of its entire stake of 97.6 million shares in Canadian Natural, the company said in a statement.
Last June, Shell had reported a stake of 8 percent in Canadian Natural.
Shell decided to offload the roughly C$4.1 billion ($3.18 billion) stake in Canadian Natural Resources that it acquired as part of a deal to retreat from Canada’s oil sands, people familiar with the situation had told Reuters nearly a year ago.
Shell’s $14-billion contract for Kitimat project a sign B.C. may catch the second LNG wave
Jesse Snyder: April 27, 2018 2:19 PM EDT
The consortium behind LNG Canada named the prime contractors for its $40-billion export project on Friday, taking the development forward amid concerns that steep import tariffs on some steel components could still make the project untenable.
In a decision the consortium called a “significant milestone,” LNG Canada said U.S.-based Fluor Corp. and Japan’s JGC Corp. would lead the $14-billion construction contract for the liquefied natural gas project in Kitimat on the B.C. West Coast. Construction of the facility would employ thousands of workers and take roughly five years to complete.
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