Jon Chadwick, Shells Executive Vice President, Australia - Upstream, said: The Gorgon project will provide important supplies of energy to the fast-growing economies of the Asia-Pacific region and will have a domestic gas supply component which we anticipate will be jointly marketed to gas customers in Western Australia.
October 18th, 2009:
Shell takes Final Investment Decision on Gorgon LNG project, Australia
Gas company Gazprom on brink of sealing tax breaks
Only three years ago, Shell, the world's biggest oil company, was forced to give up control of the giant Sakhalin development, handing over half of its interest to Gazprom after a dispute over costs and the environment.