LONDON, Nov 24 (Reuters) - Oil major Royal Dutch Shell was handed a 22,500 pound ($33,919) fine by a local Scottish court on Tuesday for a 2011 oil spill in the North Sea that was the largest in more than a decade. A subsea pipeline leak from Shell's Gannet Alpha field spilled more than 2
Read more* Crude oversupply limits scope for profits * Strong gasoline demand offers rare arbitrage options By Ron Bousso and Libby George LONDON, Nov 24 (Reuters) - In a world overflowing with oil, traders are looking to once-secondary markets such as gasoline and diesel for profits, as
Read moreBy Mike De Souza CALGARY, Nov 23 (Reuters) - The Canadian province of Alberta, holder of the world's third-largest oil reserves, has proposed a new climate change plan that will give efficient oil-producing companies room to grow while cutting carbon emissions, experts and stakeholders said
Read moreBy David Ljunggren OTTAWA, Nov 23 (Reuters) - Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Monday met the country's provinces to hammer out a national climate change strategy, but two major players signaled they had reservations about the idea. Trudeau's Liberals won an election last mo
Read more(Adds statements from Noble, BG Group) NICOSIA, Nov 23 (Reuters) - Britain's BG Group has agreed to pay U.S. firm Noble Energy $165 million for a 35 percent stake in a consortium with rights over a natural gas field in the eastern Mediterranean, Noble said on Monday. BG is acquiring t
Read more* Chinese regulators ask Shell to cut long-term LNG prices * Price erosion could weaken merger's near-term benefits * Deal remains on track for early 2016 completion, Shell says By Ron Bousso, Dmitry Zhdannikov and Chen Aizhu LONDON/BEIJING, Nov 19 (Reuters) - Chinese regu
Read moreSTAVANGER, Norway, Nov 19 (Reuters) - Shell plans to decide next year whether to resume installing subsea compressors at its giant Ormen Lange field offshore Norway, a company's senior executive said on Thursday, after stopping the project last year to save costs. "We still expect in the co
Read moreLONDON, Nov 19 (Reuters) - Investor confidence in the Royal Dutch Shell's proposed $70 billion acquisition of BG Group rose on Thursday after the merger won a key approval from Australian regulators. The premium of Shell's combined cash and share offer to BG shares narrowed to below 9 perce
Read moreMELBOURNE, Nov 19 (Reuters) - Australia's competition watchdog on Thursday approved Royal Dutch Shell's proposed $70 billion (A$98.54 billion)takeover of BG Group , saying the deal would not change the domestic market. "The ACCC's view is that the proposed acquisition would be unlikely to
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