We are the operator of the Corrib gas project (Shell interest 45%), which is currently at an advanced stage of construction. Corrib has the potential to supply a significant proportion of the country’s gas requirement. The pipeline connection between the offshore wells and the onshore processing terminal is complete. Initial operation and testing of equipment has commenced at the terminal, using gas from the national grid in advance of first gas production from the field, which is expected in 2015.

Underground gas storage facility in the
Netherlands, owned by the Dutch
government and Shell’s NAM joint venture.

Shell and ExxonMobil are 50:50 shareholders in Nederlandse Aardolie Maatschappij B.V. (NAM), the largest hydrocarbon producer in the Netherlands. An important part of NAM’s gas production comes from the onshore Groningen gas field, in which the Dutch government has a 40% interest and NAM a 60% interest. NAM also has a 60% interest in the Schoonebeek oil field, which has been redeveloped using enhanced oil recovery technology. NAM also operates a significant number of other onshore gas fields and offshore gas fields in the North Sea. In January 2015, the Minister of Economic Affairs of the Netherlands approved NAM’s production plan for the Groningen field for 2014 to 2016. This caps production levels at 42.5 billion cubic metres for 2014 and 39.4 billion cubic metres in each of 2015 and 2016, in an effort to diminish the potential for seismic activity. Since issuing his decision on the Groningen production plan, the Minister of Economic Affairs has stated that he intends to cap production at 16.5 billion cubic metres for the first half of 2015.

We are a partner in more than 30 production licences on the Norwegian continental shelf. We are the operator in 14 of these, of which two are producing: the Ormen Lange gas field (Shell interest 17.8%) and the Draugen oil field (Shell interest 44.6%). The other producing fields are Troll, Gjøa, Kvitebjørn and Valemon.

A crew member climbs a ladder on the
Brent Delta platform in the North Sea,
off the coast of the United Kingdom.

We operate a significant number of our interests on the UK Continental Shelf on behalf of a 50:50 joint arrangement with ExxonMobil. Most of our UK oil and gas production comes from the North Sea. We have various non-operated interests in the Atlantic Margin area, principally in the West of Shetlands area (Clair, Shell interest 28% and Schiehallion, Shell interest approximately 55%). We also have interests ranging from 20% to 49% in the Beryl area fields.