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Shares of Royal Dutch Shell ticked lower on Thursday after the company said it spotted an “oil sheen” in the Gulf of Mexico.

The Netherlands-based oil and gas company notified the National Response Center of a light sheen in the central portion of the Gulf of Mexico between the Mars and Ursa production area. Keep reading →


Canada’s oil sands industry has taken a major leap toward greening their operations and their image. The 12 largest producers – accounting for 80% of oil sands production – have come together to form Canada’s Oil Sands Innovation Alliance, which has committed to accelerating the pace of environmental improvement, COSIA CEO Dan Wicklum told Breaking Energy recently.

Numerous environmental oversight organizations sprung up organically over time to ensure oil companies were honoring their commitment to the environment. While these ad hoc sustainability initiatives made positive strides, the public wanted more. As a result, COSIA was formed and the chief executives of each member company signed a charter on March 1st committing them to specific activities and behavior. Keep reading →

China faces unique energy challenges to fuel continued rapid development. More from Peter Voser #Shell CEO http://bit.ly/GLJASY Shell


Amid rising gasoline prices at filling stations across the US, energy prices are still too cheap to force dramatic changes in consumption, Shell’s chief executive said recently.

Peter Voser told Silicon Valley investors at a dinner held by the Churchill Club: “For certain things energy prices need to go up otherwise the behavior will not change. Keep reading →

The skyline of downtown Pittsburgh.

Shell Chemical has signed an option to lease land in western Pennsylvania for a possible “world-scale” petrochemical complex including an ethane cracker that would use abundant natural gas from the Marcellus Shale field to make ethylene and other components for plastics. Keep reading →

MIT Technology Review unveils #Shell is on the 2012 List of the World’s Most Innovative Companies http://bit.ly/wsedC6 Shell


New discoveries of potential “tight oil” deposits are being made around the US, and no one is sure just how much oil the nation has waiting in geological formations that can now be tapped through new technology.

But the discoveries have already created one boom area, bringing a sparsely populated region of North Dakota gushes of jobs, people and problems no one foresaw. Keep reading →


With renewables tax incentives set to expire, market liquidity seemingly harder than ever to find, a supercommittee fail and EPA regulations pending, many in the energy industry may have a hard time being grateful this year.

But the industry is also at an inflection point, where the dying of old ways is opening possibilities for new beginnings. Keep reading →


For employees of a company built on oil, Shell’s top energy forecasters have an unexpected enthusiasm for electric vehicles.

While the rest of the world has been watching its competitors struggle to access oil reserves in competition with state-owned firms, Shell has become the world’s largest distributor of biofuels, a company that is on the verge of producing more natural gas than oil, and an advocate for pricing carbon dioxide, the greenhouse gas associated with global warming. Keep reading →


Producers want to export natural gas equaling 20% of current US consumption to overseas markets where the gas sells for up to five times the US price.

US officials and experts are struggling to figure out whether allowing all those exports will hike prices for US consumers. Keep reading →

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