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Equinor and Shell use Covid-19 pandemic to buy time on LNG projects

Published on 30.06.2020 at 05:00 GMT Reading time 2 min

Equinor and Shell have no complaints about the way the Covid-19 pandemic has brought things to a standstill. It's given them time to change their teams in the hope of advancing offshore gas development at their own gentle pace.

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