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  • Petrobras Sells Its Stake in Uruguay Offshore Blocks to Shell

    7 October 2013

    Brazil’s state-controlled oil company Petrobras has approved the sale of its stake in companies that hold shares in exploration blocks 3 and 4, located in the Punta Del Este basin in Uruguay. In a release issued late Friday, Petrobras revealed Shell as the buyer. Completion of the transaction is subject to certain customary closing conditions, […]

  • Salazar: Shell Entered Arctic Drilling Unprepared

    15 March 2013
    Business & Finance

    The U.S. Interior Department Secretary Ken Salazar yesterday, March 14, announced the findings of a Departmental review of Shell’s 2012 Arctic operations, which will help guide the conduct and oversight of future Arctic exploration. In January, Secretary Salazar directed the high-level review of Shell’s 2012 offshore drilling program in the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas – including the […]

  • Offshore safety audit reveals irregularities on Shell’s Draugen

    24 April 2018

    Norway’s PSA has found irregularities during a technical barriers management audit of Shell’s Draugen platform off Norway.

  • Safety probe finds flaws on Shell’s Draugen

    3 June 2016

    Norway’s offshore safety agency, the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA), has carried out an audit of Shell’s Draugen platform located offshore Norway.  The agency looked into Shell’s management of technical, operational and administrative aspects of logistics and management of the working environment at Draugen. PSA’s objective was to assess Shell’s competence and resources for safeguarding the company’s […]

  • Equinor and Shell in digital collaboration pact

    5 March 2020
    Equipment

    Oil majors Equinor and Shell have signed a memorandum of understanding on digital collaboration to develop solutions and methods in areas of data science, artificial intelligence, and 3D printing.

  • Environmentalists ‘reject’ Shell’s Brent decom plan

    10 April 2017
    Project & Tenders

    Environmental groups have “rejected” Shell’s plans regarding the decommissioning of the company’s four platforms at the Brent field, offshore the UK. Shell submitted the plan in early February to the UK’s Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. The 60-day public consultation expires today (Monday). During the final day of the consultation period, the environmental […]

  • The Netherlands: Shell Issues New Shares

    26 September 2013

    LNG player Royal Dutch Shell said that it has issued 39,065,291 A Ordinary shares in relation to the scrip dividend programme for the second quarter 2013 interim dividend. Following this issue and the cancellation of shares previously bought back and announced, the total number of A shares in issuance is 3,860,677,003 and the total number […]

  • Maintenance deal for Shell’s Gulf of Mexico platforms goes to Bilfinger

    2 August 2022
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Environment, Exploration & Production, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

    Shell has picked Bilfinger to handle maintenance services at nine offshore oil & gas platforms across the Gulf of Mexico deepwater basin.

  • Shell to cut 330 North Sea jobs

    12 January 2021
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects

    Anglo-Dutch oil giant Shell has revealed plans to cut 330 jobs from its operations in the North Sea, most of them based in Aberdeen.

  • Shell Charters Two Sovcomflot’s LNG Carriers (Russia)

    21 June 2012
    Business & Finance

    At the XVI St. Petersburg International Economic Forum Russia’s Sovcomflot, the world’s largest operator of ice class vessels, signed an agreement to provide Shell with two modern LNG carriers on the basis of a long-term time charter. The agreement was concluded following a tender process, which resulted in Shell International Trading and Shipping Company (STASCO) […]

  • Shell Prepares for Brent Delta Decommissioning

    3 February 2015
    Operations & Maintenance

    A thirty day public consultation on plans to begin decommissioning of the Brent oil and gas field in the North Sea will start mid-February. The field has produced around 10% of all UK North Sea oil and gas and generated more than £20bn of tax revenue for the UK since production began in 1976. The decommissioning programme, […]

  • Australia: Shell Completes Tortilla Survey

    4 April 2012
    Business & Finance

    Octanex has been advised by Shell Development (Australia) Pty Ltd (Shell) that it has completed acquisition of the new Tortilla 2D seismic survey in the WA-385-P permit. The Tortilla survey is a relatively small 783 km 2D marine seismic survey that fulfils the final work commitment for the WA-385-P permit in the current term. It […]

  • Report: Shell responsible for Kulluk grounding

    29 May 2015

    Shell is responsible for the 2012 grounding of a drilling rig offshore Alaska, The U.S. National Transportation Board (NTSB) has determined. In its 14-pages long report, the NTSB has concluded that that probable cause of the grounding of the mobile offshore drilling unit Kulluk was Shell’s inadequate assessment of the risk for its planned tow of […]

  • Shell maps out strategy to accelerate drive to net-zero

    11 February 2021
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Outlook & Strategy, Transition

    Oil major Shell on Thursday set out its strategy to accelerate its transformation into a provider of net-zero emissions energy products and services.

  • NTSB: Shell to Blame for Kulluk’s Grounding

    29 May 2015
    Business & Finance

    The grounding of the drilling rig Kulluk in Alaskan waters in 2012 was most probably caused by an inadequate towing plan by Royal Dutch Shell plc that did not address all the risks involved, a report from the US National Transportation and Safety Board (NTSB) shows. The ice-class mobile offshore drilling unit Kulluk, owned by Shell Offshore, […]

  • Oceaneering Wins Shell Charter Deal

    14 January 2015
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

    Oceaneering has entered into a two-year, multi-service vessel charter agreement with Shell for use of the Ocean Alliance in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico (GOM) starting January 1, 2015. The Ocean Alliance is a U.S. flagged vessel built in 2010. It has an overall length of approximately 309 feet (94 meters), a Class 2 dynamic […]

  • France: Shell, Technip to Enhance FLNG Collaboration

    13 December 2012

    Shell Gas & Power Developments B.V. and the Technip Samsung Consortium have signed a heads of agreement to enhance collaboration on the design, engineering, procurement, construction and installation of future innovative FLNG facilities. The agreement builds on the existing relationship, formed in 2009, to ensure the parties can capitalize on insights gleaned from the design […]

  • The Netherlands: Shell Issues New Shares

    20 December 2012

    Royal Dutch Shell plc announced that it has issued 34,249,652 A Ordinary shares in relation to the scrip dividend programme for the third quarter 2012 interim dividend. Following this issue, the total number of A shares in issuance is 3,772,388,687 and the total number of B shares is 2,617,715,189. Royal Dutch Shell plc holds no […]

  • Shell in ‘significant’ gas discovery offshore Australia

    24 December 2019
    Infrastructure

    Shell has made a significant gas and condensate discovery in the Browse Basin off the North West Coast of Western Australia.

  • Shell cancels $900M offshore assets sale in Thailand

    4 October 2017

    Shell will not be selling its Thai assets to Kuwait’s KUFPEC, as the two companies have mutually agreed to cancel the previously agreed deal. The Anglo/Dutch oil giant on Wednesday said that its subsidiary, BG Asia Pacific, and KUFPEC Thailand , a subsidiary of Kuwait Foreign Petroleum Exploration Company (KUFPEC), had mutually agreed to cancel the […]

  • VIDEO: Shell 2014 Strategy Update

    13 March 2014

    Shell’s CEO Ben van Beurden today reinforces his priorities for the company in presentations to financial markets. Shell’s strategy is founded on technological expertise, disciplined capital investment, integrated operations, and large scale. This is underpinned by an unrelenting focus on safety. Investment in long term opportunities is balanced with short term delivery. Shell will drive […]

  • BP exits Shell’s Shearwater field

    24 May 2021
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production

    Tailwind Energy has agreed to acquire BP’s entire working interest in the Shell-operated Shearwater field located in the UK North Sea.

  • VIDEO: Shell Starts Drilling in Chukchi Sea, Alaska

    10 September 2012
    Business & Finance

    Shell Alaska yesterday began drilling operations at its Burger prospect in the Chukchi Sea, offshore Alaska. The Noble Discoverer drillship is being used for the operations. “The occasion is historic. It’s the first time a drill bit has touched the sea floor in the U.S. Chukchi Sea in more than two decades. Today marks the […]

  • Shell makes gas discovery offshore Malaysia

    17 April 2014
    Business & Finance

    Shell today announced an exploration discovery offshore Malaysia. The successful ‘Rosmari-1’ well is located 135 kilometres offshore in Block SK318, and was drilled to a total depth of 2,123 metres. The well encountered more than 450 metres of gas column. With further exploration planned, the finding is a positive indicator of the gas potential in […]

  • Shell Strikes Gas in Record Deepwater Depth on Norwegian Shelf

    30 June 2009

    A/S Norske Shell, operator of production license 326, has completed the drilling of wildcat well 6603/12-1. The well proved gas. The discovery is located 150 km northwest of the 6506/6-1 gas discovery (“Victoria”) in the northern Norwegian Sea. The well was drilled in 1376 meters of water, which is the greatest water depth of any […]