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Shell strengthens partnership with historic first Board visit to China
Partnerships between Shell and Chinese national oil companies are helping to build a common approach to meeting rising energy demand in the world’s most populous nation. Shell highlighted the great importance of the country to the company with a historic first Board meeting in China.
RDS Board Chairman Jorma Ollila and CEO Peter Voser sign the visitors book of the Iron Man Memorial Hall at Daqing
Shell and the China National Petroleum Company (CNPC) strengthened their partnership with visits on June 21 to the jointly developed gas field at Changbei and China’s first and largest oilfield, Daqing. During these visits, the legendary “iron man” spirit that led the pioneering era of the Chinese oil industry was much in evidence.
RDS Board Chairman, Jorma Ollila, and Chief Executive Officer, Peter Voser, led the Shell delegation. At the oilfield, the management of Daqing Oilfield Company, headed by Mr Wang Yongchun, Daqing Oil Field General Manager, played hosts. Walking through the Iron Man Memorial Hall at Daqing, the Shell visitors praised the workers of the Chinese oil industry such as the man the hall was named after, Wang Jinxi, a highly respected drilling team leader in the 1960s.
“Shell strives to become the world’s most competitive and innovative energy company,” said Peter Voser, “The ‘Iron Man’ spirit worked miracles for China’s oil industry and Shell embraces this pioneering attitude and sense of responsibility as it builds a shared vision and strong partnership with CNPC to meet China’s growing energy needs.”
RDS Board Chairman Jorma Ollila inside the Iron Man Memorial Hall at Daqing
On the visit to the Changbei gas field, Malcolm Brinded, Executive Director, Upstream International, saw how engineers had brought cleaner-burning gas to Beijing by achieving the longest distance for onshore horizontal drilling in China.
Shell has built a strong strategic partnership with CNPC based on mutual respect and shared values inside China and internationally. The two companies are exploring tight gas and shale gas in Sichuan basin, and jointly acquired Arrow Energy in 2010 to explore coalbed methane in Australia. Shell, CNPC and Qatar Petroleum International are also pursuing an opportunity to build an integrated refinery and petrochemical plant in Zhejiang Province.
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