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NEWS | Oil and gas giants Shell and Total get serious about solar

Oil and gas majors have made forays into solar power and renewable energy over the past decades but it always seemed more like public relations than full-on commitment.

NEWS | Grupo R to supply Shell with drilling rig

Grupo R has signed a contract with Shell Mexico for the lease of the La Muralla IV platform to operate in the deepwaters of the Gulf of Mexico.

NEWS | Shell completes sale of $1.2bn Martinez Refinery

Shell Oil Products US, a subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell, has completed the sale of Martinez Refinery in California to PBF Holding Company LLC (PBF) for $1.2 billion.

NEWS | Equinor strengthens its presence in Argentina’s Vaca Muerta

Equinor and its partner Shell have completed a joint acquisition of the 49% interest held by Schlumberger in the Bandurria Sur onshore block in Argentina’s Neuquén province.

NEWS | Oil supermajor BP backs offshore wind for lift-off

BP named offshore wind top of a list of key technologies it deems ready for commercial lift-off, fuelling expectations that the oil supermajor will soon join peers such as Shell, Equinor and Total in (...)

NEWS | Climate change: Extinction Rebellion blocks Shell's Aberdeen HQ

Extinction Rebellion protesters have blocked the entrances to Shell's Aberdeen headquarters...

NEWS | Extinction Rebellion occupy Shell gas rig in Dundee Harbour

Environmental activists have occupied a Shell gas rig in Dundee Harbour.

NEWS | Royal Dutch Shell may fail to reach green energy targets

Royal Dutch Shell is at risk of falling short on plans to invest up to $6bn (£4.6bn) in green energy projects between 2016 and the end of 2020, with its slow progress likely to raise concern that oil (...)

NEWS | Egypt awards oil and gas exploration concessions in Red Sea - statement

Egypt said on Sunday that it awarded oil and gas exploration concessions in the Red Sea to Chevron, Royal Dutch Shell and Mubadala in an international tender.

NEWS | Shell paid no corporate income tax in the UK in 2018

Oil supermajor Royal Dutch Shell has revealed that it paid no corporate income tax in the UK in 2018, despite earning $731m (£557m) in profit.

NEWS | Top upstream companies in predictive maintenance in oil and gas, revealed by GlobalData

Several companies in the oil and gas industry, including Shell, ExxonMobil and BP, are using predictive maintenance to evaluate the condition of their operational equipment and predict maintenance req (...)

NEWS | Bureau Veritas awarded a three year asset integrity contract with Shell Tunisia

Bureau Veritas Solutions – Marine & Offshore (BV Solutions), the consultancy and outsourcing brand of Bureau Veritas, a world leader in testing, inspection and certification services, has been awarded (...)

NEWS | Shell wants to ban Greenpeace protesters from Brent oil platforms

Shell turned to court to demand that all Greenpeace protests be banned on and around the four Brent oil platforms in the British part of the North Sea.

NEWS | Shell to acquire floating wind farm developer EOLFI

Oil and gas giant Shell has agreed to acquire 100% stake in EOLFI, a French renewable energy developer specialising in floating wind farms, for an undisclosed amount.

NEWS | West of Shetland production to overtake North Sea for Shell and BP’s UK portfolios by 2020, says GlobalData

Over the last four years oil and gas production in the West of Shetlands has risen and with that, a growing relevance for the biggest players still active in the UK continental shelf (UKCS), says Glob (...)

NEWS | OneSubsea wins industry’s longest deepwater tieback project for Ormen Lange

Schlumberger announced an award to OneSubsea® by A/S Norske Shell of a frame agreement for an engineering, procurement, construction and installation (EPCI) contract for the supply of a subsea multiph (...)

NEWS | Total Sells Interest In Offshore Brunei Block To Shell For $300 Million

French oil major Total said it signed an agreement to sell the company’s wholly owned subsidiary Total E&P Deep Offshore Borneo BV—which holds an 86.95% interest in Block CA1, located 100 km off the c (...)

NEWS | Shell plans to sell onshore upstream assets in Egypt

According to Reuters, Shell is planning to sell its onshore upstream assets in Egypt’s Western Desert in order to help expand its Egyptian offshore gas exploration.

NEWS | UK Agrees To Further Talks Over Disposal Of Old Shell Oil Rigs

The UK has agreed to hold further talks with other European countries before deciding whether to approve Royal Dutch Shell PLC's plans to decommission four disused oil rigs in the Atlantic.

NEWS | North Sea oil decommissioning: pressure grows on Shell to back down

They are the giants of the deep which spent more than four decades pumping billions of pounds worth of oil from the seabed.

NEWS | Germany angered by Shell refusal to dismantle old oil rigs

Germany is calling an urgent international meeting on Shell's alleged refusal to dismantle old oil rigs containing thousands of tons of crude in the Northeast Atlantic.

NEWS | No choice but to invest in oil, Shell CEO says

Royal Dutch Shell still sees abundant opportunity to make money from oil and gas in coming decades even as investors and governments increase pressure on energy companies over climate change, its chie (...)

NEWS | Fugro completes deepwater AUV surveys for Shell in Gulf of Mexico

The project required data collection over multiple deepwater lease blocks in the greater Perdido and Mars development areas to support clearance of potential environmental, engineering, geological and (...)

NEWS | Shell set to approve North Sea projects

The head of Royal Dutch Shell’s UK business has said the oil giant is set to approve more developments in the North Sea amid calls from activists for curbs on activity to help tackle climate change.

NEWS | Boost for UK North Sea as Shell approves gas development

ROYAL Dutch Shell has underlined its enthusiasm for the UK North Sea by approving plans to invest in a gas field development.
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