£47billion deal, one of the biggest takeovers, creates £200 billion company
News of the merger led to job fears. In the UK Shell has around 6,500 staff while BG employs around 1,600. Shell is in the process of laying off 500 people at its North Sea operations where old oil fields are becoming too expensive to operate.
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The bid has been months in the planning. Shell ‘ran the numbers’ on BG, Britain’s third largest energy company, last year as its share price has fallen by a fifth since the oil price crash.
Shell’s chief executive Ben van Beurden made a call to BG’s chairman Andrew Gould on Sunday March 15 and a ‘cloak and dagger’ meeting took place at the Dorchester Hotel last month.
He described the deal as a ‘fantastic fit’ and said the ‘logic’ to buy BG has always been there but that the falling oil price made it a ‘whole lot more compelling’.
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