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Half of Shell's production will be gas by 2012, CEO says

10/19/2009
By Nick Snow
Oil and natural gas are indispensable in a growing world energy market, and Royal Dutch Shell PLC plans to make gas roughly half of its total production by 2012, its chief executive officer said on Oct. 8."This is not merely a shift in our portfolio. Increasing natural gas production and transportation by liquefying it and shipping the LNG to global markets means that more natural gas will be available to displace coal as the fuel for power plants," Peter Voser said in an address at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars."In the United States, new technology has opened up abundant gas resources contained in dense rock formations, increasing supplies dramatical...
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