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Shell Offers $90 Million to end California Litigation

25.11.2014 - Oil and petrochemicals giant Shell has offered $90 million to settle a lawsuit brought on behalf of nearly 1,500 residents of a California neighbourhood seeking damages for soil...

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Shell Wants South Africa to Move on Shale Gas

13.11.2014 - Energy and petrochemicals giant Shell has expressed concern about the slow progress South Africa is making in granting licenses for shale gas exploration, despite having accepted...

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Shell Signs Property Deal for US Shale Gas Project

11.11.2014 - In an updated property deal, Shell Chemical has exercised its option to buy Horsehead's zinc production site near Monaca, Pennsylvania, in the US, where it may build a major shale...

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Chad Holliday to be Shell’s First American Chairman

07.11.2014 - Former DuPont CEO Chad Holliday has been appointed chairman of the board of the Shell group, subject to his re-appointment as a non-executive director at the 2015 annual general...

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European Chemical Industry: Hope Amid Economic Woes

28.10.2014 - The European chemical industry has reduced its forecast growth in chemicals output in 2014 in the face of evidence of an economic slowdown both in Europe and in the world's fast...

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Belgian and Swedish Ethanol Producers Added to EU Probe

17.10.2014 - Two European ethanol producers, Belgium's Alcogroup and Sweden's Lantmannen Agroetanol, have been raided by EU competition authorities as part of a 17-month long investigation into...

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Shell Selling Mature Gas Assets to Focus on Pennsylvania Shale

22.08.2014 - As predicted by market watchers, Shell has revealed plans to sell off some of its portfolio of natural gas holdings to focus on the Marcellus and Utica shale formations in the...

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US Shale Spurs Record Foreign Chemical Investment

30.06.2014 - Chemical producers around the globe plan to invest as much as $72 billion in new US production facilities to take advantage of cheap shale gas-derived feedstock, says a report by...