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RDSB Shell Plc

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Share Name Share Symbol Market Type Share ISIN Share Description
Shell Plc LSE:RDSB London Ordinary Share GB00B03MM408 'B' ORD EUR0.07
  Price Change % Change Share Price Bid Price Offer Price High Price Low Price Open Price Shares Traded Last Trade
  0.00 0.00% 1,894.60 1,900.40 1,901.40 - 0.00 00:00:00
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16/10/2018
16:05
Total
53.82 +0.50%


Engie
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Orange
13.7 +0.48%


FTSE 100
7,059.4 +0.43%
Dow Jones
25,629.15 +1.50%
CAC 40
5,173.05 +1.53%

Brent Crude Oil NYMEX 80.77 -0.05%
Gasoline NYMEX 1.96 +0.85%
Natural Gas NYMEX 3.25 -0.46%



BP
560.1 +0.13%


Shell A
2,505 +0.22%


Shell B
2,545.5 +0.16%

waldron
16/10/2018
15:34
The Oil Markets Are At A Confusing Crossroads.



Maybe, but this civilisation as we know it depends on oil - it sustains billions of people for now.

But Population Explosion lurks in the shadows and background.

xxxxxy
16/10/2018
10:45
16 October 2018
News
Shell and Equinor reaffirm commitment to Tanzania LNG project
By Talal Husseini
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Shell and Equinor have confirmed their commitment to the $30bn Tanzania LNG project that will allow the African nation to export natural gas.

Both companies have planned to build a natural gas plant since 2014, but the project has been delayed by political uncertainty within Tanzania’s mining industry. The government reformed mining legislation, which came into effect on 3 March, giving them the power to renegotiate contracts, a move that has concerned investors.

However, the energy companies have said they are prepared to continue with the project.

Shell spokesperson Sally Donaldson told Bloomberg: “For now, the focus is on agreeing to the Host Government Agreement that is to set the legislative, regulatory and fiscal terms for the project.”

Donaldson added that before the investment decision can be completed, Shell will conduct a two-year, multi-million dollar engineering study, with the natural gas plant expected to take up to five years to construct. The project was originally due for completion by 2020.

NKC Africa Economics analyst Jacques Nel told the news agency: “The government’s hard-line approach to dealing with large foreign investors in the natural resources sector also puts a dampener on foreign investor sentiment, particularly when considering the magnitude and timelines of LNG investments.”

According to Tanzania Petroleum Development Corporation acting managing director Kapuulya Musomba, the government is working to push forward with the project, and has invited bids for a financial advisor to begin negotiating the terms of the project. Equinor has already invested $2bn in exploration for the Tanzania LNG project.

Equinor executive vice-president for development and production Torgrim Reitan said: “We would like to see this project happen. What we need now is clarity on the commercial framework. When that is settled then it will allow us to move forward.”

The company holds a majority 65% working interest in Block 2 offshore Tanzania, while ExxonMobil holds the remaining 35% stake.

In June, Equinor (formerly Statoil) and ExxonMobil found an additional two to three trillion cubic feet of natural gas in the Piri-1 well, increasing total discovered reserves to around 20 trillion cubic feet.

Shell and Ophir Energy hold interests in Blocks 1 and 4 offshore Tanzania.

maywillow
16/10/2018
08:39
What could the future hold for Aviva plc, Glencore PLC, Vodafone Group plc and Royal Dutch Shell Plc?
Do these shares offer bright investment outlooks? Aviva plc (LON:AV) (AV.L), Glencore PLC (LON:GLEN) (GLEN.L), Vodafone Group plc (LON:VOD) (VOD.L) and Royal Dutch Shell Plc (LON:RDSB) (RDSB.L)
October 16, 2018 Robert Stephens FTSE 100




Royal Dutch Shell Plc
Royal Dutch Shell Plc

The investment prospects of Aviva plc (LON:AV) (AV.L), Glencore PLC (LON:GLEN) (GLEN.L), Vodafone Group plc (LON:VOD) (VOD.L) and Royal Dutch Shell Plc (LON:RDSB) (RDSB.L) appear to be relatively bright in my view.

Aviva is currently searching for a new CEO, which could create a degree of instability in the short run. However, with what seems to be a sound business model following its restructuring of recent years, I feel it could generate improving financial performance.

With acquisitions set to be ahead alongside further investment in fast-growing markets, I believe that the Aviva share price could offer good value for money on a dividend yield of around 6%.

Glencore’s recent share price falls could continue in the short run. Investor sentiment appears to be weak, and this trend could continue as fears surrounding regulatory risks continue.

However, with a single-digit P/E ratio and what seems to be an improving business model, I’m upbeat about the outlook for the Glencore share price. With the world economy continuing to grow relatively quickly, I think it could benefit from a buoyant commodity marketplace.

Vodafone’s share price fall has been disappointing in recent months. The company’s stock price has come under pressure as investors have become concerned about the level of investment required by the business.

While this could hold back its performance in the near term, over the long run I believe that the FTSE 100 stock could offer upside potential. Vodafone has a 7%+ dividend yield and with acquisitions having been made recently, its EPS growth rate could improve over the next few years.

Shell’s dividend yield continues to be relatively attractive in my view – even after its share price has performed relatively well in recent months.

With a 5.5%+ dividend yield, the stock continues to have a yield that is around 150 basis points higher than the FTSE 100. Since I’m optimistic about the prospects for the oil price, I feel that Shell could offer upside potential, although volatility may be relatively high.




About Robert Stephens 4577 Articles
Robert Stephens is a CFA Charterholder and an Equity Analyst by trade. He is a passionate private investor who has been buying and selling shares for many years, owning a wide range of UK shares in the process. He has written for Citywire and The Motley Fool US and now runs his own business. To contact Robert, please email info@investomania.co.uk or use one of the other contact methods available on the 'Contact Us' page

la forge
15/10/2018
16:22
Total
53.55 +1.17%


Engie
11.75 +0.60%

Orange
13.635 +1.26%

FTSE 100
7,029.22 +0.48%
Dow Jones
25,364.23 +0.10%
CAC 40
5,095.07 -0.02%

Brent Crude Oil NYMEX 80.12 -0.56%
Gasoline NYMEX 1.92 -1.14%
Natural Gas NYMEX 3.25 +3.37%



BP
559.4 +0.25%


Shell A
2,499.5 +0.87%


Shell B
2,541.5 +1.23%

waldron
14/10/2018
22:26
Oil surging on the Saudi comments. Regardless seems a great share to play this uncertainty especially as it looks like we are getting a hard Brexit. You are looking in a huge yield and great upside exposure with oil at this price. All it takes is a bad tweet from trump to the Saudis and oil is $100 a barrel imo.
blueclyde
14/10/2018
19:10
Here is the other Telegraph article

Shell’s greener future is a matter of survival

Oct 13th, 2018 by John Donovan.

Jillian Ambrose, energy editor: 13 OCTOBER 2018 • 5:30PM

‘We’re not an oil company,” says Ben van Beurden from across the table. It is an affable, but pointed intervention typical of the man leading the FTSE 100’s highest-valued business.

“I don’t want to be facetious or pedantic,” he continues good-naturedly. “But we are a much broader and more sophisticated company than one that produces oil. We produce much more gas than we do oil, for a start.”

For the boss of Royal Dutch Shell, the distinction is one that rings at the heart of a personal mission to transform a company which for over a hundred years has fuelled the development of the modern world.

It is just days since the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warned the world that even greater ambition is needed to guard the planet against global temperature rises which threaten an environmental catastrophe.

It is also a year since van Beurden announced Shell’s plan to cut half of its carbon emissions by 2050, and 20pc by 2035.

He is, of course, correct. Shell’s presence in the modern world is easy to overlook but impossible to avoid. Far beyond the fossil fuels which power the modern world – from passenger vehicles to the grind of industrial machinery – Shell produces the asphalt which paves roads and the chemical building blocks used in plastics, paints and the sunscreen on your skin.

“As long as we tolerate being characterised as ‘just an oil company’, with all the negative connotations that comes with that, then we’ve already lost,” he says. “We are a company which is integral to the quality of life, the prosperity, the longevity that we all enjoy on this planet.

“There has never been an industry that has done so much for the quality of life as we know it than our industry, and we need to maintain that relevance and evolve in line with society’s expectations,” he explains, his words rich with gravitas but delivered with the ease of someone who has spent his entire career in one industry and can see the direction in which it is suddenly heading.

Van Beurden joined the energy giant in 1983 as a young chemical engineer, and by 2013 had climbed the ranks to the executive committee.

Today, he stands where an impressive corporate past meets an increasingly uncertain future.

It is an existential challenge which falls to him to address, and it runs far deeper than carefully chosen diction.

In the same way that Shell is more than an oil company, van Beurden’s vision is more than a play to the social concerns of the day. The ambitions of this energy giant are shot through with climate concerns but at its core his ambition is unapologetically financial. In only a few short years van Beurden has steered the energy goliath through the oil market’s most brutal downturn, emerging as the leader of arguably the most successful of the world’s six so-called “supermajors”.

He stepped into the top job at the Anglo-Dutch group in early 2014, just months before the global oil price began a precipitous fall from more than $100 a barrel to less than $30. But he credits the oil crash for Shell’s return to the leadership of the sector. The 18-month market rout drove it to a record loss, stripping billions from the company’s market value and costing more than 10,000 jobs.

But, in retrospect, it was van Beurden’s “biggest friend” for two clear reasons, he says. It allowed the group to succeed in making a play for BG Group, the largest player in the global market for liquefied natural gas (LNG) shipped on giant super-cooled tankers. The 2016 deal secured Shell’s place in what is expected to be the fastest-growing energy market of the next decade.

The deal together with the depressed oil market aided van Beurden’s ambition for a complete financial overhaul of the business, which like many in the industry was left bloated and undisciplined after years of bumper oil prices.

“I came into the job with the expectations, and promise, that we would significantly improve the financial performance and predictability of the company. Nothing focuses the mind as much as a real affordability crisis,” he says.

“If I look back on it, all the achievements that we’ve had so far, which to my mind have transformed the financial fortunes of the company, have been helped or created by the oil price downturn,” he smiles.

The bet on BG Group is already paying off after Shell unveiled investment in LNG Canada, a deal which will see low-cost natural gas shipped from the east cost of North America to energy-hungry buyers in Asia. For the next 40 years this project will afford Shell a foothold in the shift from high-carbon coal to gas.

This is just the start. If van Beurden’s plans succeed, the multi-billion-dollar turnaround will be eclipsed by what may prove to be the most dramatic transformation in corporate history.

“We want to look back on this period as one where we started to make the right calls that will allow us to thrive in the energy transition over the decades to come.

“The jury will be out on that for some time, but the things that we are doing in terms of transforming our portfolio, [which] will shape the company in a way that will make it an enduring and successful company, will be traced back to today,” he says.

These include Shell’s return to the solar power sector, a drive into electric vehicle charging and the high-profile acquisition of the UK’s largest independent home energy supplier, First Utility.

He is quick to deny any suggestion that the “right” decision to shift towards lower-carbon energy is driven by a desire to “greenwashR21; Shell’s image.

“In the end this is about the longevity of the company, and is therefore an existential issue,” he says.

“It’s very simple. What society will need to do to have a good quality of life, with a healthy planet, is go through a transformation of the energy system which will be so capital-intensive, and so disruptive of everything we know today – it can only be done if there is profit. Otherwise, it will not happen. We cannot subsidise our way to a 1.5C outcome. We will get through with the might of business making these things happen. That’s our role. It is not just because we are a member of society but also because there is a massive business opportunity,” he says.

Shell first made tentative advances into the embryonic renewable energy sector almost 20 years ago. They were steps which were ultimately retraced years later. In 2006, Shell paid SolarWorld to take over its entire solar business and in 2008, the company withdrew from the London Array project in the Thames Estuary which has become the world’s largest offshore wind farm.

Under van Beurden Shell will take bigger steps.

“It was late 2012, maybe 2013,” he recalls. “We had a deep discussion in the board in which we asked whether we want to again grow a significant new energies division within the business. The board felt very strongly that this is what we need to do if we want to be an economically sustainable and relevant company.”

At the time oil had never been more lucrative. The global price hovered near all-time highs of $140 a barrel and political consensus around the need to act against climate still foundered. The Paris climate accord would emerge only years later, but van Beurden says the need to act was already “inevitable221;.

“We knew that this would not be a case of trying to be a better solar panel manufacturer than the Chinese, or invent a superior wind turbine. It would also not be as simple as investing in power generation capacity either,” he says.

“But if we could be an integrated electricity player – bringing some of the skills that we have from adjacent businesses to it – we could come up with a hypothesis for a double-digit return business,” he says.

“Now, there is no company in the world that does that at this time. This is literally a hypothesis that we need to prove,” he explains.

Shareholders and investors will need to be sure that a return to low-carbon energy is one which will pay off. The five years ahead will be crucial in proving the case that clean electricity is an area profitable enough to match van Beurden’s financial ambitions for the company. The group is dedicating between $1bn to $2bn of investment a year to test its theory, a fraction of its $25bn-a-year budget but still a powerful pledge for the growing sector.

“I wouldn’t say that we have a deadline on this, because much of it will depend on how society wants to change,” he says, “But I would imagine that the way things are going by the early 2020s we will know whether the hypothesis holds and whether we therefore want to turbo-charge this business.”

The moves into the new energy future will need to demonstrate returns which win over Shell’s most hard-nosed shareholders and investors. In the meantime, Shell’s vast fossil-fuel empire will demand far more attention to keep spinning off cash to fuel the experiment. From the outside it may appear that van Beurden is walking a tightrope between Shell’s fossil-fuel past and a cleaner, greener future. He disagrees, but with unruffled cheer.

“My job is not to see to what extent I can please everyone in equal measure at the same time. My job is to integrate all these inputs into a proposition that is unique and that works for us. But that, actually isn’t that difficult,” he grins.

“The difficult part is operational. To see the risks, to make the decisions, and make them resilient; that’s the real job, and that’s every single day. In the end, in this industry, it all comes down to very strong convictions which you need to hold. And a very strong desire to win.”

fjgooner
14/10/2018
19:04
Shell to ‘turbocharge’ its clean energy drive

It is a year since Shell announced a plan to cut half of its carbon emissions by 2050, and 20pc by 2035.

By Jillian Ambrose, Energy Editor
13 October 2018 • 8:55pm

Royal Dutch Shell is preparing to “turbocharge” its bid to become a global leader in clean energy in the coming years as it seeks to overcome the “existential” challenge posed by climate change, boss Ben van Beurden has told The Sunday Telegraph.

Mr van Beurden said that the FTSE 100 giant should be able to gauge by the early 2020s whether its recent moves into the clean electricity market will be stepped up. The energy giant has so far pledged to spend between $1bn and $2bn of its $25bn (£19bn) a year spending budget on technologies including electric car charging and ­renewable energy.

“It is a highly charismatic part of our business, but it’s also very small,” Mr Van Beurden said. “I wouldn’t say that we have a deadline, because much of it will depend on how society wants to change, but I would imagine that the way things are going by the early 2020s we will know whether the hypothesis holds, and whether we therefore want to turbocharge this business.

“The biggest calling card we have is scale. We can scale much faster than anyone else,” he added.

Mr Van Beurden said Shell’s recent pledge to cut its carbon emissions by a fifth is “about the longevity of the company, and is therefore an existential issue. This is not about being altruistic.”

fjgooner
14/10/2018
14:39
Saudi Arabia signaled on Sunday it may use its clout in the world economy to retaliate against any punitive measures, in an apparent reaction to U.S. President Donald Trump’s threat to punish the world’s largest oil-exporter over the disappearance of a government critic.





Turki Aldhakhil, the general manager of Al Arabiya, the official Saudi news channel, in an opinion piece claimed Saudi was ready to implement 30 measures “without flinching” the moment US sanctions were imposed, including cuts to oil production that could lead to prices jumping to $100 a barrel or even $200. “The truth is that if Washington imposes sanctions on Riyadh, it will stab its own economy to death, even though it thinks that it is stabbing only Riyadh,” he wrote. (Observer)




Investors still haven’t forgiven oil companies for being ill-prepared for a crude-price collapse four years ago. Perhaps more than half a trillion dollars will change their minds.

zho
14/10/2018
10:19
Quite a lot about Shell in todays Sunday Telegraph.
imperial3
13/10/2018
11:58
November 1, 2018 Third quarter 2018 results and third quarter 2018 interim dividend announcement
adrian j boris
12/10/2018
16:12
Total
52.93 -0.53%


Engie
11.68 -1.52%

Orange
13.465 -1.72%

FTSE 100
6,995.91 -0.16%
Dow Jones
25,214.28 +0.64%
CAC 40
5,095.98 -0.20%


Brent Crude Oil NYMEX 80.08 -0.26%
Gasoline NYMEX 1.92 -0.47%
Natural Gas NYMEX 3.19 -1.36%



BP
558 +0.65%

Shell A
2,478 -0.28%



Shell B
2,510.5 -0.38%

waldron
12/10/2018
07:51
Is Royal Dutch Shell Plc a FTSE 100 ‘bargain’;?
Does Royal Dutch Shell Plc (LON:RDSB) (RDSB.L) offer good value for money?
October 12, 2018 Robert Stephens Shell (LON:RDSB)




Royal Dutch Shell Plc
Royal Dutch Shell Plc

The last 12 months have been relatively successful for the Royal Dutch Shell Plc (LON:RDSB) (RDSB.L) share price. It has risen by around 9%, and this suggests that investor sentiment towards the oil and gas stock has improved.

One reason for this is the rising oil price. Further growth could be ahead in my view, with the global economic outlook being relatively strong and supply disruption being a real threat to the industry over the medium term. Sure, there are risks from electric vehicles, but I think that over the next few years demand growth for oil could be ahead of supply growth.

Within this operating environment, Shell could perform well in my view. The company appears to be improving its balance sheet, with it seeking to use improving free cash flow to reduce leverage. This could create a stronger business over the coming years which is better able to cope with the volatility that is likely to be present for the oil price.

At the same time, the company may be able to afford a higher dividend. Increasing profit is expected to be recorded in the next couple of years, and this may make its 5.8% dividend yield more affordable.

With a forward P/E ratio of around 11, I think that Shell continues to offer good value for money. The company appears to have a diverse asset base, while an asset disposal programme could improve the risk to reward opportunity which it offers over the medium term. This could make it a relatively strong performer within an industry that I’m bullish about for the long term.

Of course, risks remain. The oil price could come under pressure, while the recent falls in the FTSE 100 may continue and this could put further pressure on the company’s shares. But from a long-term perspective I remain optimistic about the stock’s investment potential.




About Robert Stephens 4551 Articles
Robert Stephens is a CFA Charterholder and an Equity Analyst by trade. He is a passionate private investor who has been buying and selling shares for many years, owning a wide range of UK shares in the process. He has written for Citywire and The Motley Fool US and now runs his own business. To contact Robert, please email info@investomania.co.uk or use one of the other contact methods available on the 'Contact Us' page

florenceorbis
11/10/2018
16:49
Total
53.21 -3.43%


Engie
11.86 -2.59%

Orange
13.7 -1.05%

FTSE 100
7,006.93 -1.94%
Dow Jones
25,451.65 -0.57%
CAC 40
5,106.37 -1.92%

Brent Crude Oil NYMEX 81.27 -1.35%
Gasoline NYMEX 1.95 -2.12%
Natural Gas NYMEX 3.16 -3.60%










BP
554.4 -2.60%


Shell A
2,485 -3.01%


Shell B
2,520 -3.04%

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