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November 19th, 2015:

Shell’s BG Deal Cleared by Australian Competition Regulator

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By James Paton: November 18, 2015: Bloomberg.com

  • Agreement on track to be completed in early 2016, Shell says

  • Shell’s plan had faced concerns over gas supply in Australia

Royal Dutch Shell Plc’s $70 billion deal to buy BG Group Plc was cleared by Australia’s competition watchdog despite concerns it could reduce natural-gas supply to local customers and boost prices.

“The proposed acquisition would be unlikely to substantially lessen competition in the wholesale natural gas market,” Rod Sims, chairman of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, said in a statement on Thursday.

Shell’s takeover has already won key regulatory approvals from the U.S., the European Union and Brazil. Shell on Thursday called the Australian decision a “major step forward” for the transaction, which still requires clearance from China’s antitrust regulators and is on track to be completed in early 2016. read more

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Safety risks prompt Dutch court to order cuts at Groningen gas field

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Screen Shot 2015-11-18 at 09.13.40Sectors | Wed Nov 18, 2015 4:33pm IST

By Anthony Deutsch and Toby Sterling

A Dutch court on Wednesday ordered more cuts in gas production at Groningen, Europe’s largest gas field, saying the government had given too little consideration to the stronger and more frequent earthquakes extraction had caused.

Output at the field, the world’s 10th largest, will now be capped at 27 billion cubic metres (bcm) per year from 33 bcm, the court said, adding that the government had failed to sufficiently weigh public safety risks. read more

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Exxon’s Dutch Gas Gag

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Screen Shot 2015-11-18 at 09.13.40Liam Denning: November 18, 2015

If you’ve never been to Groningen, it’s a pleasant college town in the northern Netherlands. It also happens to share its name with one of the world’s largest natural gas fields. Tourists are best advised to focus on the scenic bicycling routes. Exxon Mobil is more attuned to what lies beneath.

The region around Groningen has a problem that is becoming familiar in places like Oklahoma: earthquakes brought on by gas production. On Wednesday, a Dutch court ruled that the production cap on the giant field should be reduced temporarily by another 18 percent, to about 950 billion cubic feet for the year that started October 1. Altogether, the cap has been cut by about a third since 2014. read more

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Australia watchdog clears Shell’s $70 billion bid for BG Group

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MELBOURNE | BY SONALI PAULBusiness News | Thu Nov 19, 2015 

Royal Dutch Shell (RDSa.L) cleared a major hurdle to its $70 billion (46 billion pounds) takeover of BG Group (BG.L) on Thursday, winning a green light from Australia’s competition watchdog, which said the deal would not change the dynamics of the domestic market.

The acquisition will make Shell the world’s top liquefied natural gas (LNG) trader, although it still needs approval from China and Australia’s Foreign Investment Review Board to go ahead as planned in early 2016. read more

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ACCC clears Shell’s $98b takeover of BG Group

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To the relief of Shell, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission waved through the mega-merger on Thursday…

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Angela Macdonald-Smith: Energy Reporter

East coast gas buyers left disappointed by the competition regulator’s unconditional approval for Royal Dutch Shell’s $US70 billion ($98 billion) takeover of BG Group have turned their attention to the Foreign Investment Review Board as they look for conditions to be put around the deal.

To the relief of Shell, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission waved through the mega-merger on Thursday, which will align the oil giant’s undeveloped gas in Queensland – held in the Arrow venture with PetroChina – with BG’s $28 billion LNG export project in Gladstone. read more

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Dutch court orders more cuts in gas production

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[JURIST] The Dutch Council of State [official website, in Dutch] on Wednesday ordered [judgment, in Dutch; press release, in Dutch] more cuts in gas production. The court came to this decision after stronger and more frequent earthquakes occurred in the Netherlands as a result of extraction. The Groningen [BBC backgrounder], the field in question, will be capped at 22 billion cubic meters (bcm) per year from 33 bcm, due to the government’s failure to weight public safety risks after earthquakes caused extensive damage in the Netherlands’ northernmost province. Due to the Groningen supplying 15 percent of Europe’s gas, the Court ruled [Reuters report] “should it turn out to be a relatively cold year, the maximum gas extraction can be raised to 33 billion cubic metres.” The government has twice this year reduced production from its original target of 39.4 bcm. The ruling applies to all production through October 2016. read more

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Shell finds 100 million oil barrels in deep-water Gulf discovery

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Posted on November 18, 2015 | By Collin Eaton

HOUSTON — Probing one of its recent discoveries in deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico, Royal Dutch Shell found 100 million barrels of oil equivalent buried at its Kaikias field, nearby three of its massive production facilities and a network of subsea pipes, the company said Wednesday.

The one-year-old Kaikias discovery, about 60 miles south of the Louisiana coast in the Mars-Ursa basin, is nowhere near the size of the big-ticket deep-water oil fields that Shell uncovered in that region two decades ago. read more

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Corrib gas project spend to top €3.6bn as Shell await Government approval

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Screen Shot 2015-11-18 at 23.10.02The costs of the Corrib gas project are set to top €3.6bn by the end of this year, more than four times the original estimate of €800m.

Gordon Deegan: Wednesday, November 18, 2015

Yesterday, operator Shell E&P Ltd confirmed that the 2015 spend by the Corrib partners on the field will be €260m.

Some €320m was spent last year, as total costs approach €3.6bn by the end of 2015.

A spokesman for Shell Ireland said: “As construction of the Corrib development is essentially completed, the capital investment in the project will reduce significantly from 2016 onwards.

“The Corrib facilities have been technically ready to start up since September 1 last.

“After what has been a protracted development phase, Shell is understandably eager to start producing gas as soon as possible. read more

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