Royal Dutch Shell PLC on Thursday said it plans to nominate Charles "Chad" Holliday Jr. as non-executive director. The Netherlands-based company plans to make the proposal to elect Holliday effective Sept. 1, 2010, at its 2010 general meeting. Holliday has served as chief executive and chairman of DuPont from ...

South Korea's Samsung Heavy Industries said Tuesday it has won a contract to build a floating gas platform for Royal Dutch Shell worth an estimated four to five billion dollars. The country's leading shipyard said in a statement the LNG-FPSO (Liquefied Natural Gas-Floating Production Storage and Offloading) unit would be delivered by 2016 under the contract due to ...

Arrow Energy Ltd., a major owner of natural gas assets in northern Australia, said Monday that a company jointly owned by Royal Dutch Shell and PetroChina has sent it a takeover bid worth $3.3 billion Australian dollars ($3 billion). Nearly half of Shell's production of ...

Shell Oil Co. said Tuesday it is abandoning its quest for water rights from a northwest Colorado river to develop oil shale production, citing delays in the project due to the global economic downturn. Colorado, Wyoming and Utah are thought to hold 800 billion barrels of recoverable ...