What's more, even before Sempra began building the plant, it hedged away all its project risk by leasing out half the 1 billion cubic feet per day of capacity for 20 years to Shell.

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My sources tell me no official decision has been made regarding his future at the company. (Spokespeople for Comcast and NBC Universal declined to comment.) The remaining Jeff, Jeff Shell, is expected to remain in the fold in an international capacity, though who else will stay or join him remains a favorite parlor game of those in the industry.

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Shell told MPs that in Alaska available mechanical recovery assets had "a combined capacity that exceeds the worst-case discharge potential of the well we are drilling".

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