“Shell has to abide by the decisions of the gas by the Dutch government,” is all Benschop wanted to say.
When asked what Shell thinks the repairs will cost houses damaged hit by earthquakes gas drilling that followed, he did not go in. Shell expects shortly about an ‘update’ of the Dutch government, according Benschop.
Large increase
The energy company is half-owner of Dutch Petroleum Company (NAM), which gas Wins in Groningen. Shell expects next few years a large increase in the global demand for gas. The activities in Groningen represent only one of the many gas production projects in which the group is concerned.
Shell held on the World Gas Conference an argument on the benefits of natural gas, with respect to the generation of energy with coal. Natural gas provides according to Shell for much less harmful CO2 emissions.
Emotional call
At the shareholders meeting last month, Chairman Ben van Beurden kept the boat even then on he was confronted with an emotional call from a victim of the earthquake damage in Groningen.
A woman asked the top of the energy concern her house, which was damaged by the earthquake, buy. The woman said that 250,000 homes and other buildings were damaged and that the repair will last for thirty years and will cost 30 billion euros.
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