Shell, one of the world’s most significant oil and gas companies, is taking a considerable step towards cryptocurrency acceptance. The company is set to participate in the world’s largest Bitcoin conference. This surprising move sends ripples across both the traditional energy sector and the evolving cryptocurrency industry. Bitcoin’s adoption and …
Read More »Shell to Use New AI Technology in Deep Sea Oil Exploration
Shell Plc will use AI-based technology from big-data analytics firm SparkCognition in its deep sea exploration and production to boost offshore oil output, the companies said on Wednesday. SparkCognition’s AI algorithms will process and analyze large amounts of seismic data in the hunt for new oil reservoirs by Shell, the …
Read More »Shell Suspends Production at the World’s Largest Floating LNG Facility
Shell has halted production at Prelude LNG – the world’s largest floating liquefied natural gas facility offshore Australia – due to a trip, a spokesperson for the supermajor said on Friday without giving details when production could resume. “Production on the Shell-operated Prelude FLNG facility has been temporarily suspended due …
Read More »Shell Sells Australian Offshore Natural Gas Interests to BP
Shell Australia is selling bp Plc its interests in the carbon-intensive Browse offshore natural gas project, one of Australia’s largest untapped gas fields. “The Browse asset is no longer a strategic fit in the context of Shell’s global portfolio,” Shell said in a statement Saturday, without elaborating on the size …
Read More »Petrobras Partners with Shell to Build Test Lab in Brazil
Brazilian company Petrobras has partnered with Shell and Senai CIMATEC to develop a production development laboratory (LDP) for pre-salt research and development. Being built inside Senai CIMATEC Park in the Petrochemical Camaçari Cluster, the LDP will be equipped to allow testing of integrated systems in safe operating conditions similar to …
Read More »Shell Sanctions Deepwater Project in U.S. Gulf of Mexico
Shell Offshore Inc, a subsidiary of the UK-headquartered energy giant Shell, has taken a final investment decision (FID) for a deepwater project in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico (GOM), which will be developed as a subsea tie-back to the oil major’s operated Appomattox production hub. While announcing the FID for …
Read More »Shell Meets Climate Targets in 2022 as Part of Energy Transition Strategy
Shell plc has published its Energy Transition Progress Report 2022, which shows it has again met its climate targets as part of its energy transition strategy. The report will be put to shareholders for an advisory vote at Shell’s Annual General Meeting on May 23, 2023. “In this report, we …
Read More »Oil Giant Shell Posts Highest-ever Annual Profit of $40 Billion
British oil giant Shell on Thursday posted its highest-ever annual profit, bolstered by soaring fossil fuel prices and robust demand since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine last year. Shell reported adjusted earnings of $39.9 billion for the full-year 2022. This comfortably surpasses the $28.4 billion in 2008 which Shell said …
Read More »Big Oil Saw Record $199Bn Profits in 2022 but 2023 will be Different
ExxonMobil, Chevron, Shell, TotalEnergies, and BP reaped almost $200 billion collectively last year but fears of an economic slowdown, plunging natural gas prices, cost inflation and uncertainty over China’s re-opening are dimming the outlook for 2023. The five companies are expected to report $198.7 billion in combined 2022 profit in …
Read More »Shell Agrees to Pay $15.9M over Oil Spills in Nigeria
Shell Petroleum has agreed to pay €15 million ($15.9 million) as settlement to Nigeria over oil pipeline leaks in the country’s Niger Delta in the early 2000s. In a statement on Friday, Shell said it had negotiated the settlement for the benefit of the Oruma, Goi and Ikot Ada Udo …
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