This may turn out to be the year that oil giants, especially in Europe, started looking more like electric companies. Late last month, Royal Dutch Shell won a deal to build a vast wind farm off the coast of the Netherlands. Earlier in the year, France’s Total, which owns a …
Read More »Oil Giants’ Production Cuts Come to 1 Million bpd as They Post Massive Writedowns
The dramatic reductions in asset valuations and decline in output show the depth of the pain in the second quarter. Fuel demand at one point was down by more than 30% worldwide, and still remains below pre-pandemic levels. Several executives said they took massive writedowns because they expect demand to …
Read More »Oil Demand may Never Recover from COVID-19 Crisis
Global oil demand might never return to levels seen before the outbreak of the COVID-19 epidemic, Royal Dutch Shell CEO Ben van Beurden said on Thursday. “Demand will take a long time to recover if it recovers at all,” van Beurden told reporters after the Anglo-Dutch energy company reported a …
Read More »Shell Books $18 Billion Loss on Huge Impairment Charges
Shell said on Thursday that it had booked a loss of $18.1 billion for the second quarter of 2020 compared to a profit of $3 billion in the same period last year. Shell explained that this included an impairment charge of $16.8 billion post-tax, $22.3 billion pre-tax, as a result …
Read More »Renewable Energy Is Gaining Market Share during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Renewable energy has surged to capture a record share of global electricity generation, seizing more market share during the coronavirus downturn. The steep drop in electricity demand, down by more than a fifth in some parts of the world, has hit energy producers everywhere. But because renewable energy has zero …
Read More »Shell CCS Facility Soaks Up Five Million Tonnes of CO2
The oil giant says this was achieved in less than five years of the plant’s operations and it is equivalent to the annual emissions from about 1.25m cars.
Read More »Shell Makes Bet on Digital LNG Trading With GLX Investment
Royal Dutch Shell Plc, the world’s biggest liquefied natural gas merchant, is making a bet on the trade’s digital future by taking a minority investment in the online platform developer GLX Digital. GLX is among a handful of companies using web-based trading to modernize the world of physical commodities and …
Read More »Shell and BP Look to Monetize Their Digital Technologies
Oil and gas companies have looked beyond their own sector to diversify revenue streams, most notably in power. Now they are using digital technology expertise as another way to build new revenue. Shell and BP are two leading examples. Shell estimates that digital tools will contribute to one-fifth of its …
Read More »Shell to Supply Carbon-Neutral LNG Cargoes to China’s CNOOC
LNG giant Shell said it recently signed a deal to supply carbon-neutral liquefied natural gas cargoes to CNOOC Gas & Power Group, a unit of China National Offshore Oil Corporation. Hague-based Shell said on Monday that these shipments will be the first carbon-neutral LNG cargoes to Chinese Mainland. The cargoes …
Read More »Asian Spot LNG Prices Jump by 20% on Cargo Cancellations, Improving Demand
Asian spot prices for liquefied natural gas (LNG) have jumped by at least 20% in a week as supply of the super-chilled fuel tightens amid fewer cargoes arriving from the United States and as demand rebounds in the region, several traders said. Several cargoes have changed hands at $2.40 to …
Read More »