Peter Klinger – The West Australian on April 12, 2016
Royal Dutch Shell chief executive Ben van Beurden will call for his industry to work harder at cutting costs to make sure the gas sector remains competitive with coal and the fast-growing renewable energy space.
Mr van Beurden, one of the biggest names to address the LNG18 conference in Perth, is expected to tell more than 2000 delegates today his industry needs to constantly innovate, from upstream to downstream activities such as shipping and regasification.
His call comes as oil and gas companies grapple with commodity prices anchored at a decade low, a pending global LNG supply glut driven largely by new production out of Australia and increased pressure for the world to cut carbon emissions.
Although the gas industry regularly talks up its fuel’s cleaner-burning characteristics, there persists a view within and beyond the sector that it is not doing enough to market its superiority over cheaper but dirtier coal.
Addressing media yesterday, Origin Energy managing director and LNG18 national organising committee boss Grant King said gas was “critical and central” to global carbon reduction.
He pointed to gas’ “reliability” as a base load power fuel, as evidenced by its use to replace Japan’s nuclear industry post-Fukushima, and the flexibility of LNG in particular as reasons why gas’ future was buoyant.
On a day when Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, who last night addressed LNG18 delegates at the State Reception Centre, visited Barrow Island for a first-hand look at the Gorgon plant, Mr King said the country’s LNG hubs in the North West, Darwin and Gladstone would serve as “massive cash registers for Australia” for decades to come.
Challenges of cost and the need for more innovation and collaboration remain, as Mr van Beurden will point out today during a panel session with Chevron chief executive John Watson and Woodside Petroleum managing director Peter Coleman.
“The future of our industry is about continuous innovation,” Mr van Beurden will say.
“This is why the focus on innovation of this Australian Government is very relevant to this country’s LNG industry.
“New ways of doing business, new ways of communicating, new ways of doing science, they can’t do without energy.”
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Royal Dutch Shell conspired directly with Hitler, financed the Nazi Party, was anti-Semitic and sold out its own Dutch Jewish employees to the Nazis. Shell had a close relationship with the Nazis during and after the reign of Sir Henri Deterding, an ardent Nazi, and the founder and decades long leader of the Royal Dutch Shell Group. His burial ceremony, which had all the trappings of a state funeral, was held at his private estate in Mecklenburg, Germany. The spectacle (photographs below) included a funeral procession led by a horse drawn funeral hearse with senior Nazis officials and senior Royal Dutch Shell directors in attendance, Nazi salutes at the graveside, swastika banners on display and wreaths and personal tributes from Adolf Hitler and Reichsmarschall, Hermann Goring. Deterding was an honored associate and supporter of Hitler and a personal friend of Goring.
Deterding was the guest of Hitler during a four day summit meeting at Berchtesgaden. Sir Henri and Hitler both had ambitions on Russian oil fields. Only an honored personal guest would be rewarded with a private four day meeting at Hitler’s mountain top retreat.
IN JULY 2007, MR BILL CAMPBELL (ABOVE, A RETIRED GROUP AUDITOR OF SHELL INTERNATIONAL SENT AN EMAIL TO EVERY UK MP AND MEMBER OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS: 
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