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June 3rd, 2017:

Shell still working to reduce emissions despite U.S. pullout from Paris agreement

President Donald Trump pulled the United States out of the Paris climate agreement Thursday, but one of the largest companies in the world said it will still do its part to provide clean energy.

Shell Chemicals, which is building a $6 billion ethane cracker plant along the Ohio River in Potter Township, said Thursday that the company’s “position on climate change and the importance of the Paris agreement is well known.” read more

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Shell fears ‘backlash’ from Paris deal exit

President Trump’s decision to pull out of the Paris climate agreement risks exposing oil companies to a tough regulatory backlash from future US administrations, Royal Dutch Shell has warned.

The Anglo-Dutch company has been one of the most outspoken oil industry supporters of the 2015 accord, telling Mr Trump that withdrawal would weaken America’s position globally.

Andy Brown, one of Shell’s most senior executives, said he feared that the decision and a corresponding weakening of emissions reduction efforts could also store up problems for fossil fuel companies in future, triggering “a backlash on regulation against an industry like ours” in a post-Trump era.

Speaking to The Times shortly before Mr Trump confirmed his decision on Thursday night, Mr Brown said: “In a part of the… read more

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Gazprom Neft and Shell

1 june 2017

Gazprom Neft and Shell have used the occasion of this year’s St Petersburg International Economic Forum to sign a Memorandum of Understanding. Vadim Yakovlev, First Deputy CEO, Gazprom Neft, and Olivier Lazar, Country Chair, Shell Russia, have both put their signatures to a document confirming both companies’ intention of promoting further cooperation.

Both sides have confirmed their intention of continuing negotiations on the Khanty-Mansiysky Oil and Gas Union’s provisional assessment of a range of non-shale oil deposits in Eastern Siberia, including the Achimovsky deposits in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug. In addition to this, Gazprom Neft and Shell have committed to undertake geological prospecting of license blocks in the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug, adjoining licence blocks owned by Salym Petroleum Development N.V.,* through that enterprise. read more

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