LONDON, April 25 (Reuters) - Royal Dutch Shell willclose the head office of BG Group, the gas producer it agreed toacquire for $50 billion in February, by the end of the year, itsaid on Monday.
The oil major will offer voluntary redundancy packages tostaff at the BG headquarters in Reading, near London, and hasopened all internal Shell vacancies to BG employees, it said.
Shell also said it would close BG's Aberdeen office to focusonshore operations in the Scottish oil town at its own site.Shell will also close its Brabazon House office in Manchester bythe end of 2017, it said.
Shell said in December that it expected to cut around 2,800roles globally across the combined group, or approximately 3percent of the total workforce. (Reporting by Karolin Schaps and Ron Bousso, editing by LouiseHeavens)
