ALUMNIPUBLISHED FOR SHELL ALUMNI IN THE AMERICAS | WWW.SHELL.US/ALUMNINEWSMARCH 2016 ULTIMATE JOURNEY TO THE DEEP WATER MAKES ENERGY LAST FRONTIER HEADLINES IN EFFICIENCY MARS-URSA BASIN Shell alumnus takes the trip Shell Eco-marathon of a lifetime. Shell announces Americas returns 100 million boe discovery to Detroit. at Kaikias field. QUEST OPENS PAGE 4 2 SHELL NEWS ALUMNINEWS AlumniNews is published for Shell US and Canada. Editors: Design: Heather Pray Russell and Jackie Panera Production Centre of Excellence Shell Communications Calgary Writer/copy editor: Shell Human Resources: Susan Diemont-Conwell Annette Chavez Torma Communications and Alicia Gomez A WORD FROM OUR EDITORS GO GREEN! A company that is simpler, more focused and U.S. AlumniNews moving to a digital more competitive. That’s the aim of a recent version starting December 2016 global structure change introduced by CEO Beginning with our December 2016 issue, Ben van Beurden and implemented at the AlumniNews will be delivered in an start of 2016. Along with the evolved global electronic format and will no longer be structure come projects that exemplify Shell’s offered as a printed and mailed publication. continued innovation and willingness to lead CONTENTS We invite our U.S. subscribers to sign up the industry. online at www.shell.us/alumni or by email This issue of AlumniNews features articles on at [email protected]. We will notify the company’s support of Alberta’s climate you directly when the latest version of change proposal and the historic opening of AlumniNews is posted online each quarter. Quest, a carbon capture and storage project designed to capture more than 1 million tons of carbon dioxide (CO²) each year. We’ve also brought you articles on exciting announcements at Geismar and in the Mars-Ursa Basin. We invite you to read how Shell is helping to power an indigenous HIGHLIGHTS community in the Philippines and how one Shell employee beat the odds and broke Increasing production barriers for women in the U.S. Army 03 Geismar to become largest alpha olefins producer in the world. Rangers. Be sure to check out our regional Deep Water makes headlines in the Mars-Ursa Basin section of the magazine for more news of Shell announces 100 million boe discovery at Kaikias field. interest, as well as updates on alumni activities in your area. Technology for a lower-carbon world 04 Landmark Quest carbon capture and storage project opens. And don’t forget to send us story ideas for Delivering carbon capture and storage the Alumni Features section of the magazine. 05 Our contact details can be found on the back One team’s ‘Quest’ for excellence. page. We look forward to hearing from you! Responsible development Shell supports Alberta’s climate plan. Enjoy the spring! Shell Eco-marathon Americas returns to Detroit 06 Student teams compete for ultimate energy efficiency. Heather Pray Russell and Economic, environmental strengths Jackie Panera 11 Lorraine Mitchelmore discusses climate change, Canadian energy. Editors, AlumniNews magazine Lorraine Mitchelmore leaves Shell New executives named. The power of technology 12 Shell delivers record-breaking Ferrari performance. Lighting up lives Shell impacts indigenous community. CHECK US OUT ONLINE! Out of her comfort zone Visit www.shell.us/alumni 13 Shell engineer joins elite ranks of U.S. Army Rangers. for everything alumni. An unforgettable energy experience Need forms? Want back issues of AlumniNews 14 Shell’s Energy 4 Seven Billion winner talks Zanskar. magazine? Visit our Shell alumni website for helpful links and phone numbers and the Journey to the last frontier latest news on Shell. Also, connect with us by 15 Pilot takes the trip of a lifetime. emailing [email protected] to give us feedback and tell us what you’d like to see on the site. SHELL NEWS 3 DEEP WATER MAKES INCREASING PRODUCTION HEADLINES IN THE Geismar to become largest alpha olefins MARS-URSA BASIN producer in the world Shell announces 100 million boe discovery at Kaikias field Upstream Gulf of Mexico deepwater platform, Ursa. Deep Water made headlines after a recent discovery in the Mars- Ursa basin. The company found 100 million barrels of oil equivalent (boe) buried at its Kaikias field, located approximately 60 miles offshore, south of the Louisiana coast. The high-value opportunity is situated in close proximity to existing Shell infrastructure in this deepwater Gulf of Mexico heartland. Shell is adding 425,000 tons of alpha olefins capacity at Geismar. Kaikias builds on Shell’s exploration and development leadership position in the Mars-Ursa basin, and nearby Shell is taking production at Geismar nearby Norco and Deer Park sites, and field infrastructure to the Kaikias to a whole new level. The company’s operational flexibility to allow us to leases presents opportunities for cost decision to increase alpha olefins (AO) respond to market conditions.” efficiencies, potentially reducing the production at its chemical manufacturing overall development cost. site in Louisiana will make Geismar the Located next to the Mississippi River, largest AO producer in the world. about 20 miles south of Baton Rouge, Managing costs and ensuring this stand-alone chemicals site also project competitiveness continues The new capacity brings total AO produces alcohols, ethoxylates, ethylene to be a focus for Shell. In fact, Shell production at Geismar to more than oxide and ethylene glycols and has a completed the drilling and appraisal 1.3 million tons per annum. The chemical strong track record of reliability and safe of Kaikias ahead of schedule and is used in the production of stronger and performance. under budget, allowing the company lighter polyethylene plastic for packaging to achieve more than 20% in cost and bottles, as well as engine and Construction of the new unit will savings. This achievement was industrial oils and drilling fluids. begin in the first quarter of 2016, reached despite the company drilling and 1,000 additional workers will be the longest well ever drilled by Shell “This important investment demonstrates onsite during peak construction. “This at 34,500 feet measured depth. our ongoing commitment to the growth expansion project is great news for potential in chemicals,” says Graham Shell’s Geismar site and the region,” At a water depth of 4,575 feet van’t Hoff, executive vice president, Shell says Rhoman Hardy, general manager (1,395 meters), the Mars-Ursa Chemicals. “With the investment in new, at Geismar. “We are now focused on basin is characterized as having profitable facilities, Shell Chemicals the safe and efficient integration of high-quality oil in world-class quality is well placed to respond to increased this high-value project into the plant’s reservoirs. Shell owns and operates global customer demand for linear alpha day-to-day operations. Shell remains a three infrastructure hosts in the olefins. We have strong technology, vital economic engine in this region and Mars-Ursa basin, making it a key advantaged ethylene feedstock from a good corporate neighbor.” « strategic hub. « 4 SHELL NEWS TECHNOLOGY FOR A LOWER-CARBON WORLD Landmark Quest carbon capture and storage project opens Ahead of the COP21 climate conference A comprehensive and sophisticated make CCS more accessible and drive in Paris in late 2015, CEO Ben van measurement, monitoring and verification down future project costs. Beurden journeyed to Canada to (MMV) system ensures captured CO² officially open Shell’s flagship carbon remains safely and permanently stored. Other collaborations include field-testing capture and storage (CCS) project, The robust MMV program design earned advanced MMV technologies for which will help to reduce carbon dioxide Quest the world’s first Certificate of underground CO² storage with the U.S. (CO²) emissions. Fitness for safe CO² storage from world- Department of Energy and work from a renowned risk management firm Det doctoral university student at Quest, to “Quest represents a significant milestone Norske Veritas (DNV). deliver on the UK-Canada joint statement in the successful design, construction and on CCS issued in 2014. use of CCS technology on a commercial Supportive neighbors scale,” says van Beurden. “Quest is Local community support was essential to A pillar of Shell’s CO² reduction a blueprint for future CCS projects building Quest. Early consultation efforts strategy globally. Together with government and focused on landowners and residents Along with energy efficiency, joint venture partners, we are sharing living along the proposed CO² pipeline advanced fuels technology and use of the know-how to help make CCS route or near the proposed injection biofuels, CCS is a core part of Shell’s technologies more accessible and cost- wells, as well as local government. CO² reduction strategy. Shell has a effective for the energy industry and other Stakeholder input led Shell to make more portfolio of CCS demonstration projects key industrial sectors of the economy.” than 30 pipeline route adjustments. supporting competence development The pipeline was also routed to follow and public advocacy. The company will Safe, permanent CO² storage 17 miles (28 kilometers) of existing continue using these projects to advocate While CCS technologies have been pipeline right-of-way to minimize for greater government engagement around for decades, they are now environmental impact. in CCS, more industry investment being used in an innovative way to to bring down the cost of CCS and capture CO². Using Shell’s ADIP-X