Greenhouse gas would be transported to the Shell-operated Goldeneye gas field in the North Sea using, as far as possible, existing pipeline infrastructure.
BBC: Shell and SSE want to develop carbon capture at Peterhead
Some of Shell's brightest longer-term gas prospects are in Saudi Arabia, where Shell has done business since the 1940s and helped build chemical plants.
The Iraqi cabinet approved a preliminary agreement that will create a joint venture between the state-run South Oil Company and Royal Dutch Shell to develop natural-gas resources in the Basra region.
Shell foresees a gas processing plant and two side-by-side pipelines across the Andes toward Pisco, where Shell sees scope for a world-scale petrochemicals park.
In South Africa, which may have the largest shale-gas reserves on the continent, the shales in the Karoo basin have attracted the attention of Shell, which is increasingly billing itself as a gas-focused company.
ECONOMIST: Shale gas should make the world a cleaner, safer place
Absent a pickup in U.S. natural gas prices, Shell is going to be hard-pressed to see a return on that investment anytime soon.
FORBES: Shell's 5% Dividend Yield (Part 2): Will Huge Capital Spending Pay Off?
To extract Malampaya's gas, Shell will put down nine undersea wells - five in 2002 and four in 2009 - plus a production platform being built in Singapore and Subic.
Shell aims to combine coal gasification with gas-to-diesel technology in an alliance with coal miner Anglo American.
Shell also controls Tejas, an American gas-pipeline firm, and Coral, which is the fifth-largest gas marketer in North America.
Some of Shell's brightest longer-term gas prospects are in Saudi Arabia, where it has done business since the 1940s and helped build chemical plants.
Shell already operates the world's biggest gas-to-diesel plant, in Bintulu, Malaysia, which produces some 15, 000 barrels a day.
That year a Shell-Texaco venture will begin producing natural gas from the 3-km-by-15-km Malampaya field 750 to 1, 150 meters below sea level.
Shell is also one of the companies looking at shale-gas reserves in China, which may be the largest on the planet.
ECONOMIST: Shale gas should make the world a cleaner, safer place
Proposals include a building a gas-to-liquids plant on the Gulf Coast like the giant Pearl GTL plant Shell has finally finished in Qatar.
FORBES: Shell Oil Axes Exec For Alaska Drilling Fiasco. Will More Heads Roll?
The Shell Petroleum Development Co is the largest oil and gas company in Nigeria - Africa's top energy producer - with an output of more than one million barrels of oil or equivalent per day.
Royal Dutch Shell said it has signed its first-ever production sharing contract for shale gas in China with state-owned China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC).
Its accusation has echoes of Sakhalin-2, the massive oil and gas project that the Russian government wrested control of from Shell late last year. (See: "Russia Shows Sakhalin Partners Who The Boss Is") Though this time there may well have been some environmental violations by the project members, Kazakhstan's real gripe with Eni has been the project's string of delays.
Its accusation has echoes of Sakhalin-2, the massive oil and gas project that the Russian government wrested control of from Shell late last year. (See: "Russia Shows Sakhalin Partners Who The Boss Is") Though this time there may well have been some environmental violations by the project members, Kazakhstan's real gripe with Eni (nyse: E - news - people ) has been the project's string of delays.
Shell signed the first production-sharing contract to explore, develop and produce shale gas in China.
Shell said it may be less than two years away from a major advance in shale-gas production in China.
Anglo-Dutch company Shell has beaten France's Total to a multi-billion-pound deal to develop a gas field with the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC).
应用推荐