Pardon the title, but the Wall Street Journal has an extremely interesting interview with the top dog at Shell, Peter Voser.
He admits that Shell is fast becoming a gas company rather than an oil company. “Shell started quite a while back, actually, to put a lot of emphasis on gas” says Voser. “And by 2012, [...]

The oil and gas industry likes you to think that, compared to oil, gas is a cleaner, greener alternative – a great bridging fuel between the hydrocarbon age and the renewable age.
Compared to oil, this may be so – if and it is a big if, the gas is normal conventional gas. However, as traditional [...]

Of all the oil majors, Shell prides itself on undertaking cutting edge energy forecasting, that not only inform the group’s thinking but also dove-tail into policy making by decision makers across the energy spectrum.
It is one of the few companies to get out its crystal-ball and try and predict what the energy future will look [...]