It made a billion debt bet to acquire gasoline distributor Esso from Exxon Mobil a few years back and last year signed a joint venture with Shell to produce and distribute both ethanol and gasoline in Brazil and, indeed, around the world.
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Both Shell and ExxonMobil will try to market their LNG to customers in Asia, potentially reaching markets there about the same time LNG makes its way across the Pacific from U.S. and Canadian LNG projects, if they get government approval to export.
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Shell, which supplied both them and Dr Oldenburg and Dr Brune with the wax for their experiments, has changed the formula over the years.
Both BP and Shell, for example, reported recently that they produced less oil in the third quarter of this year than they did in the same period the year before.
While Shell was once seen as a model of good management, some investors have in recent years criticised its complicated two-company structure: Royal Dutch Petroleum, based in the Netherlands, owns 60% of the group and London-based Shell Transport and Trading the remaining 40%, with operational management reporting to both boards.
Although the machine is not a technical tour de force, its compactness, glowing green transparent shell, absence of conventional cables and simplicity appeal to both traditional Macophiles and computer virgins.
The scale of Shell's problems, both in finding new reserves and in accounting for them appropriately, has clearly shaken its top management.
Shell said both vessels are now being towed to Asia for maintenance and repairs.
He has since been a finalist in both the Shell Livewire Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award and the Prince's Scottish Youth Business Trust National Award.
The incidents sharpened concerns about Shell's plans to drill in the Arctic, both among environmentalists and in native Alaskan communities.
In terms of design the smartphone is somewhat reminiscent of both HTC's One X (the overall shape and unibody shell) and Samsung's Galaxy Note II (the camera pod and shiny finish).
Vainikolo, taking his tally for the season to 29, and Harris both scored their second tries to pile on the agony for the shell-shocked visitors.
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