SHELL & BG PRESENCE

Royal Dutch Shell outlined Tuesday its strategy for making its merger with BG profitable in a world with falling oil prices, revealing another $1 billion in cost savings from the deal.
Chief Executive Officer Ben van Beurden said cost savings for the deal are now expected to be $2 billion, bringing total synergies to $3.5 billion in 2018. Examples include savings on corporate costs such as real estate.
"The $1 billion increase is in operating cost synergies and has arisen from both de-risking our original assumptions but also from identifying further opportunities," he told reporters on a conference call. "Plans…
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