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Voser’s on the way out…. let’s book the losses!

Screen Shot 2013-09-30 at 08.37.38The people who will really be laughing are those who sold the US prospects to Shell over the past few years. These assets were acquired by Shell at a cost of several billion dollars right at the top of the market.

FROM A SHELL RELATED SOURCE

Looks like Ben van Beurden is going to be starting with a clean sheet – wholesale disposals (and huge write-offs) in Voser’s last quarter as chairman of the CMD…which of course starts tomorrow.
 
Today’s press mentions disposals of the Eagle Ford shale interests in Texas, shale prospects in Colorado and Kansas, the Chukchi sea prospects off Alaska (interests acquired at enormous cost), and onshore assets in Nigeria – essentially everything that Marvin Odum and Dave Lawrence built up over the past few years plus the Niger delta… And these are just the ones we know about.
 
The people who will really be laughing are those who sold the US prospects to Shell over the past few years. These assets were acquired by Shell at a cost of several billion dollars right at the top of the market. read more

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Colorado: Shell gets OK for fracking in Spanish Peaks

July 4, 2011 by Bob Berwyn

State approves 14,000-foot-deep fracking operation without public hearing

SUMMIT COUNTY — Shell Oil & Gas has been cleared to drill deep into a unique geological formation near the Spanish Peaks, in southern Colorado, to explore new natural gas resources.

Huerfano County planning and elected officials gave the exploratory fracking project a conditional green light last week, to the dismay of many local residents who are clamoring for more upfront research and better safeguards against environmental impacts.

The Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission last month denied a citizen request for a public hearing because the request didn’t come from a local government entry. read more

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Federal oil shale plan focus of public hearings in Colorado

By Catherine Tsai
The Associated Press: 05/05/2011

GOLDEN — Revising a Bush administration plan to open nearly 2 million acres of public land to potential oil- shale development will only delay efforts to reduce U.S. reliance on foreign oil, Shell Exploration and Production Co. said Wednesday.

Tracy Boyd, a Shell official, was among speakers at Bureau of Land Management public meetings in Golden on efforts to review the Bush administration plan released in 2008. About 50 people attended afternoon and night sessions. read more

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Shell to withdraw Yampa River water rights application for oil shale development

As a result of Shell’s actions, Colorado residents can breathe a little easier and the Yampa River lives to flow another year. ”

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Deal lets Suncor sell Shell fuel in Colorado

"This agreement positions Suncor well to continue to provide quality fuels to our marketers and consumers under the Shell brand, the No. 1-selling gasoline brand in America."

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Water use exaggerated, Shell spokesman argues

Recent studies have created unnecessary hysteria by overstating likely water use associated with potential oil shale development, an energy company official says.

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Despite Interior’s resistance, oil shale R&D efforts forge ahead

"The technology continues to advance. We're making good progress," said James Thurman, the manager of regulatory policy for Shell Unconventional Resources. "There's still a lot that needs to happen. ... But nothing is insurmountable."

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Shell water rights opponents band together

The entities are among 25 groups that have logged oppositions against the application filed by Shell Frontier Oil and Gas in water court in Steamboat Springs in late December 2008.

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Shell official confirms thirsty nature of oil shale, denies push to ‘corner water market’

A Shell Oil official confirmed Friday that the “in-situ” oil shale production the company is researching at its Mahogany facility near Rangely currently consumes about three barrels of water for every barrel of oil produced.

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ExxonMobil and Shell have “cornered the market” on Western Slope water rights, study says

Estimates put the water requirements of an oil shale industry producing 1.55 million barrels of oil a day at 378,000 acre-feet per year, compared to the Denver metro area’s consumption, which is less than 300,000 acre feet.

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Oil, Water Are Volatile Mix in West

"We're picking up properties as they become available or look strategic," said Tracy Boyd, a spokesman for Royal Dutch Shell PLC. Shell does not expect to need large quantities of water for at least 15 years, he said, and by then it may have developed less water-intensive ways to extract oil, perhaps using wind power.

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Carbon dioxide shale solution sought

Shell is convinced climate change is occurring and is pursuing everything from sequestration to pursuit of cleaner energy sources to address it in all of the company’s operations, Boyd said. A big part of the carbon footprint associated with oil shale development could come from the electricity needs such projects would create. Boyd said he expects Shell would use wind energy to help power its shale effort.

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Water district opposes Shell Oil request

Steamboat Springs — The Upper Yampa Water Conservancy District filed a statement of opposition on Friday to Shell Frontier Oil and Gas’ Dec. 30 request for substantial water rights on the Yampa River.

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Australian Coal-Gas Sparks a Deal Boom

BG Group PLC, the British oil and gas company, and Royal Dutch Shell PLC's Australian partner Arrow Energy Ltd. are competing for Pure Energy Resources Ltd., an Australian player in coalbed methane.

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Concerns expressed over Shell water filing

Local and regional representatives expressed “serious” concerns in the past two weeks about the recent Yampa River water right filing by Shell Frontier Oil & Gas.

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Cool, clear water

San Francisco Chronicle

Sunday, January 18, 2009

DEVELOPMENT: Oil shale development grabs more water

WHAT IT MEANS: Royal Dutch Shell has filed a claim on about an eighth of the spring flow in Colorado’s Yampa River. If the claim survives the expected legal challenges, Shell will use that water to extract and process shale oil. But focusing on the Yampa misses a larger point. Shell and other companies, including Chevron and EGL Resources, have been collecting water rights on the Colorado and White rivers for decades in hope of exploiting the shale deposits beneath Wyoming, Utah and Colorado. read more

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Shell seeks Yampa River water for oil-shale plans

Shell has yet to decide how much water it will need for oil shale development, and Boyd emphasized the company has yet to decide to seek commercial production. Company officials have said that decision is years away.

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Million dollar question: how to get oil from shale

The in situ method being used in Shell Oil’s experimental tract involves drilling a well through the oil shale layer (about 2,000 feet) and lowering heated rods that will eventually heat the shale to 650 degrees Farenheit to release the oil.

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Oil shale remains in the crosshairs

Boyd added that the company does not “speed up and slow down” its oil shale research development based on the short-term fluctuations on the price of oil, which has been plunging to lows not seen for years. Shell currently holds three 160-acre oil shale research and development leases in the Piceance Basin. American Shale Oil and Chevron both hold one.

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Chevron slows Colorado natgas drilling development

Chevron Corp said on Thursday it had to curtail plans for expansion of a new development in Colorado's Piceance Basin due to a drop in local natural gas prices.

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Government offers discount royalty rates on shale

Shell is experimenting with a plan to heat oil shale in situ — in place underground — and then extract high quality oil suitable for uses such as jet fuel.

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Oil-shale projects are going ahead in Utah — for now

Royal Dutch Shell PLC, Europe's largest oil company, said last month that it was pushing back a decision on expanding an oil-sands project in Canada. But Shell's Denver-based exploration and production company is moving its oil-shale development forward, said Tracy Boyd, communications and sustainability manager

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COLORADO STATE RECEIVES $950,000 RESEARCH GRANT FROM SHELL OIL

FORT COLLINS - Colorado State University's Warner College of Natural Resources announced today that it will receive $950,000 in the form of a research grant from Shell Oil Company...

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Economies of shale

That excitement is likely to last as long as oil prices remain above $30 a barrel, a bottom-line benchmark once cited by leaseholder Royal Dutch Shell. With commercial production at least a decade away, the company has since backed away from that number even as a barrel of oil remains near $100.

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Oil shale stuck between rock and wild place

Over five years here, Shell Oil conducted a series of secretive experiments that have the potential to blow open the status quo of North American oil production, unlocking the vast reserves of oil shale that underlie Colorado's Western Slope.

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Oil-shale debate moves West

Current shale development is in a research stage. Shell Exploration & Production Co. is working an oil-shale project on three 160-acre parcels in Colorado. Shell agreed with the administration that producers need final leasing regulations so that the "rules of the game" are clear.

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Continental Shift: BP Is Latest Gas Player

BP's announcement comes three days after rival Royal Dutch Shell PLC announced a C$5.9 billion (about $6 billion) takeover bid for Canadian natural-gas producer Duvernay Oil Corp. Shell also has partnered with EnCana Corp. to enter what has become the hottest new unconventional play, the Haynesville Shale in east Texas and Louisiana.

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Squeezing Oil From a Stone

Shell's process is complicated. The company plans to insert electric heaters hundreds of feet into the ground to heat the oil shale to between 650 degrees and 700 degrees for more than two years.

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Power struggle over oil shale

Shell Exploration & Production Co. is working an oil-shale research project on three 160-acre parcels in Colorado. Spokeswoman Darci Sinclair in Houston said that the company wants "commercial development as soon as feasible." She declined to answer whether Shell believes development is commercially viable. She said that the lack of regulatory framework on oil shale "creates additional uncertainty for companies trying to prove viability of new technologies."

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Shell pilot oil shale project in Colorado

Shell plans to contain the kerogen by utilizing freeze walls -- using a refrigeration process requiring electricity to freeze groundwater -- to prevent migration into groundwater. As I said this is highly speculative although Shell has built a pilot project.

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Big oil now seeing green

Shell co-owns a wind farm in Lamar and is involved in 11 wind projects in the U.S. and Europe.

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Colorado’s oil shale lures Shell

In its quest to remove oil from western Colorado's shale, Royal Dutch Shell has been buying land and water rights in anticipation of what is likely to be a thirsty new industry.

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Shell makes run on water

In its quest to melt oil out of western Colorado's shale, Royal Dutch Shell has been buying up land and water rights in anticipation of what is likely to be a thirsty new industry.

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