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December 8th, 2015:

Brent Under $40: Bad News for Big Oil

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By SARAH KENTDec 8, 2015

Shell has slashed $11 billion from its capital spending and operating costs this year. The company said in July that it would cut 6,500 jobs and in October abandoned a major oil-sands project in Western Canada.

The company posted a loss of $6.1 billion in the third quarter, after taking a $2 billion charge for scrapping the project and recording impairment charges of nearly $4 billion as a result of the weaker oil and gas price outlook.

They may have to cut deeper if oil prices stay at or below $40 a barrel… read more

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Big Oil Let Off Hook

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Royal Dutch Shell Plc, BP Plc and Statoil ASA no longer face an European Union investigation into potential manipulation of fuel benchmarks, the regulator indicated on Monday. Photographer: Andrey Rudakov/Bloomberg

By Aoife WhiteStephanie BodoniPeter Levring and Gaspard Sebag: Bloomberg.com: 7 December 2015

  • EU’s Vestager shows willingness to dump cases going nowhere
  • Commission retreats from high-profile oil investigation

Days after dropping a high-profile probe into some of Wall Street’s top banks, the European Commission quietly sounded the retreat from an antitrust case that’s embroiled some of the world’s biggest oil producers since 2013. read more

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OPEC Won’t Cut Drilling, and Prices Plunge 5%

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By CLIFFORD KRAUSSA version of this article appears in print on December 8, 2015, on page B1 of the New York edition

HOUSTON — Crude oil prices slid a further 5 percent on Monday to fall to their lowest levels since the 2009 global recession, pummeled by the fading chance that Saudi Arabia would cut production to halt the commodity’s yearlong slide.

In only 16 months global oil prices have collapsed from over $110 a barrel to less than half that, and the oil industry in the United States and around the world is reeling from its worst crisis since the late 1990s. On Monday, the American benchmark broke the $38-a-barrel mark, a price that makes drilling and completing wells a losing proposition in almost all oil fields around the country. read more

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SHELL NEDERLAND APPOINTS FIRST EVER FEMALE CEO

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As of January 1st Marjan van Loon will be the first ever female CEO of Shell Nederland. On Monday the oil and gas group announced that current CEO Dick Benschop will take another role within Shell International on the same date.

“Marjan brings a wealth of experience and expertise to fill this important position” managing director Ben van Beurden said, according to news wire ANP.

Van Loon, 49, started working for Shell 26 years ago. Since 2009 she’s filled the roll of vice president of LNG & Gas Processing, where she is responsible, among other things, for the largest ship, the Prelude, which serves as a gasworks far off the western coast of Australia.

Benschop was CEO of Shell Nederland from May 1st, 2012. In his new position he will be responsible for better management of collaborations over which Shell does not have direct control – joint ventures in which the company has minority interests. read more

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Report: Political pressure prompted hasty environmental review of Shell’s Arctic play

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Screen Shot 2015-11-20 at 08.55.47Yereth RosenBen AndersonDecember 7, 2015

Regulators hoping to avoid criticism and potential congressional backlash rushed an environmental review of offshore Arctic oil development to ensure that Royal Dutch Shell would be able to drill this year, said a report issued Monday by a federal watchdog agency.

The investigation, conducted by the U.S. Department of Interior’s Office of the Inspector General, was launched in response to complaints from Bureau of Ocean Energy Management employees who worked on a rewrite of the supplemental environmental impact statement for oil leasing in the remote Chukchi Sea off Alaska’s northwest coast. read more

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