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Shell leaves from Denmark’s offshore oil and gas

British oil major Shell, through its affiliate Shell Overseas Holdings Limited, has reached an agreement with publicly listed Norwegian Energy Company ASA (Noreco), to sell its shares in Shell Olie-og Gasudvinding Danmark B.V. (SOGU) for a consideration amount of $1.9 billion.

SOGU is a wholly-owned Shell subsidiary that holds a 36.8% non-operating interest in the Danish Underground Consortium (DUC). The sale is subject to regulatory approval and expected to be completed in 2019. The...

https://safety4sea.com/shell-leaves-from-denmarks-offshore-oil-and-gas/

Shell Gives Green Light To Invest In LNG Canada

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Shell Canada Energy, an affiliate of Royal Dutch Shell plc (“Shell”), announced it has taken a final investment decision (FID) on LNG Canada, a major liquified natural gas (LNG) project in Kitimat, British Columbia, Canada, in which Shell has a 40% working interest. With LNG Canada’s joint venture participants also having taken FID, construction will start immediately with first LNG expected before the middle of the next decade.

Shell’s 40% share of the project’s capital cost is within the...

https://www.marineinsight.com/shipping-news/shell-gives-green-light-to-invest-in-lng-canada/

Baltic LNG project enters new stage of implementation

On the sidelines of the 8th St. Petersburg International Gas Forum, Russian oil giant Gazprom and British oil major Shell signed a Framework Agreement on the joint design concept (pre-FEED) for the Baltic LNG project.

Namely, Vitaly Markelov, Deputy Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee, and Maarten Wetselaar, Member of the Executive Committee of Royal Dutch Shell, signed the document on 4 October.

The document outlines the next stage of the Baltic LNG project in the lead-up to the FEED...

https://safety4sea.com/baltic-lng-project-enters-new-stage-of-implementation/

Shell announces availability for its 2020 compliant fuels

Shell announced that it launched the fuel availability which will be in in key ports in 2020. Shell’s marine fuels network rolled out the planned fuel availability for 2020 at SIBCON in Singapore on 3 October 2018.

This announcement aims to support ship owners and charterers as they prepare for IMO’s 0.50% global sulphur limit for marine fuels in 2020.

The availability for Shell’s new 0.50% very low sulphur marine fuel oil (VLSFO) was included as part of the rollout. Trials for the new fuel are...

https://safety4sea.com/21166159-2shell-announces-availability-for-its-2020-compliant-fuels/

Shell Delivers First STS LNG Bunkering To World’s First LNG-Powered Aframax Tanker

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Shell recently delivered its first ship-to-ship bunkering of cleaner burning LNG fuel from its specialised LNG bunker vessel, Cardissa, paving the way for many other operations from the vessel. This operation marked a number of other firsts, as it fuelled the Sovcomflot vessel Gagarin Prospect, the world’s first LNG-powered Aframax tanker. It was also the first ship-to-ship LNG bunkering to take place in the Port of Rotterdam.

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The fuelling of the Gagarin Prospect with LNG is...

https://www.marineinsight.com/shipping-news/shell-delivers-first-sts-lng-bunkering-to-worlds-first-lng-powered-aframax-tanker/

Watch: Shell greenlights investment in LNG Canada

Shell Canada Energy, an affiliate of Royal Dutch Shell, announced it has taken a final investment decision (FID) on LNG Canada, a major liquified natural gas (LNG) project in Kitimat, British Columbia, in which Shell has a 40% working interest. With LNG Canada’s joint venture participants also having taken FID, construction will start immediately with first LNG expected before the middle of the next decade.

LNG Canada is a long life asset that will initially export LNG from two processing units...

https://safety4sea.com/watch-shell-greenlights-investment-in-lng-canada/

Shell to use AI to improve operational performance

Shell broadened its work with Microsoft to drive efficiencies across the company from drilling and extraction to employee empowerment and collaboration, as well as safety for its retail customers and employees.

Shell selected C3 IoT with Microsoft Azure as its artificial intelligence (AI) platform to enable digital transformation. Shell will replicate AI and machine learning applications across its upstream and downstream businesses.

Judson Althoff, executive vice president of Microsoft’s...

https://safety4sea.com/shell-to-use-ai-to-improve-operational-performance/

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