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December 1st, 2015:

Biggest Oil Deal’s Risk Narrows to Record as Shell Pushes Ahead

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By Rakteem Katakey: 30 November 2015

  • BG’s shares are at smallest discount to Shell’s offer price

  • Takeover received Australia antitrust approval this month

BG Group Plc’s discount to Royal Dutch Shell Plc’s takeover offer is the narrowest since the transaction was announced in April as the likelihood increases that the biggest oil deal of the decade will go through.

BG shares were 7.8 percent lower Monday than the price implied by Shell’s offer to buy the company, about half the discount reached in August. Shell has received approvals for three of the five preconditions to the acquisition, including one this month from Australia’s antitrust authority, meaning the window for some investors to cash in on the discount is starting to close, according to William Hares, a London-based oil analyst with Bloomberg Intelligence.  read more

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Shell announces $717 million expansion in Geismar

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Screen Shot 2015-11-20 at 08.55.47ADVOCATE STAFF REPORT: Nov. 30, 2015

Shell Chemical LP said Monday it will invest $717 million in a new linear alpha olefins manufacturing unit at the company’s Ascension Parish complex.

The project will create 20 new jobs with an average salary of $104,000, according to Shell. The company already employs 650 people at its Geismar campus. Louisiana Economic Development estimates the project will also generate 93 indirect jobs. Shell estimates the project will also require 1,000 construction jobs at peak building activity. read more

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