Shawn Mccarthy GLOBAL ENERGY REPORTER,
OTTAWA From Monday’s Globe and Mail 19 March 2012
Royal Dutch Shell PLC is doubling-down on its natural gas bet, despite a depressed North American market that has seen many producers shut in production.
The international oil company is the worlds premier gas company, producing and shipping more of the cleaner-burning fuel, in more markets, than any of its global competitors.
It is leading the charge on the twin challenges of natural gas the difficulty in transporting it and the glut in North America by pursuing liquefied natural gas exports to premium markets, and by investing in technology that processes raw gas into far more valuable liquid or chemical products or pioneers it use as a transportation fuel.