LONDON, Jan 28 (Reuters) - BG Group shareholders onThursday overwhelmingly voted in favour of Royal Dutch Shell's $51 billion offer to buy the British oil and gascompany, clearing the way for the companies to create theworld's biggest trader of liquefied natural gas (LNG).
The deal won the support of 99.53 percent of BGshareholders, BG said in a statement.
After Shell shareholder waved through the deal on Wednesday,BG's shares are now set to be delisted on Feb. 15 -- 19 yearsafter it was created from the liberalisation break-up of BritishGas.
(Reporting by Ron Bousso; Editing by David Goodman)