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  • USCG: Shell’s attempt to avoid tax in Alaska partly led to Kulluk grounding

    4 April 2014

    The U.S. Coast Guard Thursday released the report of investigation into the circumstances surrounding the grounding of Shell’s conical drilling unit Kulluk on the eastern coast of Sitkalidak Island, Alaska, Dec. 31, 2012. The Coast Guard said that the most significant factor which led to the incident was the decision to attempt the voyage during the winter […]

  • VIDEO: Shell Starts Production from Mars B Through Olympus Platform

    4 February 2014
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    Shell announces that it has begun production from the Mars B development through Olympus – the company’s seventh, and largest, floating deep-water platform in the Gulf of Mexico. It is the first deep-water project in the Gulf to expand an existing oil and gas field with significant new infrastructure, which should extend the life of […]

  • Workers on Shell’s North Sea platforms to go ahead with strike action

    25 July 2016

    Following a failure by the Wood Group to come up with any solutions in talks over pay reductions, proposed cuts and changes to working conditions on Shell’s North Sea oil and gas platforms, action scheduled to start on Tuesday morning will go ahead, UK’s RMT union said on Monday.  A ban on overtime working started […]

  • VIDEO: Production begins from Shell’s Mars B field in Gulf of Mexico

    4 February 2014

    Shell today announces it has begun production from the Mars B development through Olympus – the company’s seventh, and largest, floating deep-water platform in the Gulf of Mexico. It is the first deep-water project in the Gulf to expand an existing oil and gas field with significant new infrastructure, which should extend the life of […]

  • Shell signs over decom management role at North Sea fields to EnQuest

    30 August 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Environment, Project & Tenders

    EnQuest has widened its decommissioning operator role at offshore fields in the UK sector of the North Sea after Britain’s energy giant Shell decided to pass EnQuest its decommissioning management role.

  • Norway: Shell Extends Use of AGR’s Deep-Water Excavation Technology on Ormen Lange Field

    21 June 2011
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Technology

    Norske Shell AS is extending its use of AGR’s deep-water excavation technology and expertise on the Ormen Lange field. Originally, a £9m (NOK84m) deal announced in February between the Aberdeen-based Excavation & Trenching arm of AGR Drilling Services and Norske Shell was to last until June 2, 2011. Now Norske Shell has called upon AGR […]

  • BSEE supervises testing of Shell’s Arctic-ready capping stack system (Gallery)

    19 June 2015
    Equipment

    Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) this week oversaw testing of Shell’s proposed Arctic-ready capping stack system in Puget Sound, near Seattle, to ensure compliance with stringent Federal safety standards for oil and gas exploration on the Arctic Outer Continental Shelf. To remind, Shell-operated, Arctic-bound Polar Pioneer drilling rig recently left Seattle. A key […]

  • Semi-submersible rig kicks off its drilling gig with Shell in Namibia

    12 December 2022
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    Northern Ocean’s Deepsea Bollsta semi-submersible drilling rig has arrived in Namibia where it started its contract with Shell.

  • Shell, Petrobras, Total, CNPC and CNOOC to Develop Super Giant Oil Field ‘Libra’

    22 October 2013

    A consortium of companies, including Royal Dutch Shell plc (“Shell”), Petrobras, Total, CNPC and CNOOC, won today a 35-year production sharing contract to develop the giant Libra pre-salt oil discovery located in the Santos Basin, offshore Brazil. The Brazilian regulator, Agência Nacional do Petróleo (ANP), estimates Libra’s recoverable resources of between 8 to 12 billion […]

  • Shell Clears GoM Rigs of Non-Essential Personnel Ahead of Tropical Cyclone

    15 June 2015
    Business & Finance

    Shell Oil Co, the US arm of Royal Dutch Shell, has decided to remove all non-essential workers from its rigs in the Gulf of Mexico in preparation of a low-pressure storm with an 80% chance of turning into a tropical cyclone within the next 48 hours, Reuters reports. The removal of the non-essential personnel would […]

  • After TotalEnergies and PTTEP, Shell joins wave power for subsea equipment project

    5 February 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Infrastructure, Innovation, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders, Research & Development, Storage, Technology, Transition, Vision

    Energy major Shell has joined the Renewables for Subsea Power (RSP) collaborative project which is powering subsea equipment off the coast of Orkney, Scotland, through a combination of wave power and subsea energy storage. The £2 million demonstrator initiative, nearing 12 months in the water, has connected the Blue X wave energy converter built by Mocean Energy […]

  • Solstad scores PSV hattrick. Shell takes ‘Normand Starling’ for Brazil support

    29 March 2019

    Norwegian offshore shipowner Solstad Offshore has signed a contract with Shell for the platform supply vessel Normand Starling.

  • Shell carries out Port of Gibraltar’s first cruise ship LNG bunkering

    27 September 2023
    Ports & Logistics, Vessels

    Energy major Shell has carried out the first-ever cruise ship liquefied natural gas (LNG) bunkering operation at the Port of Gibraltar.

  • Shell: Global LNG trade increased by 6% in 2021 amid high prices

    21 February 2022
    Market Outlooks, Outlook & Strategy

    According to Shell’s latest annual LNG Outlook, the global trade in LNG increased 6 per cent to 380 million tonnes during 2021 amid supply constraints and volatile prices.

  • Brunei Shell Petroleum hires PV Drilling rig on long-term deal

    2 October 2019

    Vietnamese offshore drilling contractor PV Drilling has won a long-term contract for its long-stacked heavy tender assist semi-submersible drilling rig PV Drilling V with Shell in Brunei.

  • Shell halts two North Sea platforms over Forties pipeline crack

    12 December 2017

    Shell has suspended production on two of its Central North Sea platforms due to controlled shutdown of the Forties Pipeline System. 

  • Harvey Gulf’s Second LNG OSV begins work for Shell following delivery

    19 October 2015
    Vessels

    Gulf Coast Shipyard Group delivered Harvey Power, the second LNG vessel that enters full service for Shell Upstream America’s deepwater operations in the Gulf of Mexico.

  • Woodside eyes offshore acreage close to Shell and TotalEnergies’ discoveries in Namibia

    6 March 2023
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    Woodside has entered into a deal with Pancontinental, enabling it to get an exclusive option to acquire a stake in a licence off Namibia.

  • New Zealand: Greenpeace Activists Arrested

    27 February 2012
    Business & Finance

    Seven Greenpeace protesters lead by TV star Lucy Lawless, who on Thursday Boarded the Noble Discoverer drillship, have been arrested and charged with burglary, according to The New Zealand Herald. The activists boarded the ship to protest against Shell’s plans to drill for oil in Alaskan waters and to prevent the ship from departing the […]

  • Shell taps Asian duo for ‘first major’ decom project offshore Brunei

    20 February 2025
    Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders

    Serikandi Hilong, a joint venture (JV) between Brunei’s Serikandi Oilfield Services and Hilong Group’s Hong Kong-based affiliate Hilong Marine Engineering, has won a contract with Brunei Shell Petroleum (BSP), a subsidiary of the oil major Shell, for the engineering, preparation, removal, and disposal (EPRD) of redundant offshore structures in Bruneian waters. According to Serikandi, the […]

  • Canada’s Ksi Lisims LNG concludes first LNG offtake agreement with Shell

    9 January 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects

    Canada’s Ksi Lisims LNG, a co-development of the Nisga’a Nation, Rockies LNG, and Western LNG, has signed a 20-year LNG sale and purchase agreement (SPA) with Shell. This is the first LNG offtake agreement executed by Ksi Lisims LNG. Under the agreement, Shell will purchase 2 million tonnes of LNG per year from the proposed […]

  • Shell, PetroChina Plan Canada LNG Export to Gain from Asia Prices

    27 October 2011

    Royal Dutch Shell Plc, Europe’s largest oil company, together with PetroChina Co. and Japanese and South Korean partners are examining plans…  (bloomberg) [mappress] Source: bloomberg, October 27, 2011;

  • WorleyParsons Appoints Non-Executive Director (Australia)

    19 December 2011

    WorleyParsons announced the appointment of Dr Christopher (Chris) Haynes to its Board of Directors, effective 1 January 2012. Chris is based in the United Kingdom and is a senior oil and gas industry professional having 39 years’ experience with the Shell Group of companies and their affiliates in a number of countries around the globe […]

  • Shell and Mexico Pacific sign 20-year LNG sale and purchase agreement

    27 March 2023
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects

    Energy major Shell Eastern Trading (Shell) and a subsidiary of Mexico Pacific have signed a 20-year sales and purchase agreement for Shell to offtake approximately 1.1 million tonnes per year (MTPA) of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the third train of Mexico Pacific’s anchor LNG export facility, Saguaro Energia, located in Puerto Libertad, Sonora, Mexico. […]

  • Shell Shuts Down Auger Production Due to Cardamom Tie-In Ops (USA)

    18 July 2013
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    Nearly two decades after setting a world water-depth record for drilling and production, Shell’s Auger tension-leg platform is still playing a central and innovative role in the company’s deep water Gulf of Mexico portfolio – currently producing some 55,000 barrels oil equivalent (boe) per day (Shell share ~30,000 boe per day), and acting in the […]