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Customer Lease Site
04/08/2008
Shell Trading (US) Company Launches Customer Lease Web Site. Effort maximizes efficiency and secure customer access 24/7.
Houston – Responding to its customers, Shell Trading (US) Company (Shell Trading) today unveiled its new customer-access Web site allowing it’s customers to access valuable online account information regarding their wells and payment processes.
“We recently surveyed our lease customers, who include other major oil companies and individual citizens and families in rural and remote areas across the country, to determine if online account access would best serve their needs," said Bob Pease, Shell Trading (US) Company president. “We’ve designed the Web site around those needs identified by our customers.”
The Web site offers secure access to individual accounts where customers can check their payment information, manage their account and conveniently receive timely access to the account status, which is primarily derived from producing wells Shell Trading purchases primarily located in Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Kansas, Wyoming, Colorado, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Mississippi, Alabama, and New Mexico.
“From the new site, check detail can be downloaded to a spreadsheet and analyzed. Users will also be able to create e-mail notification alerts and historical reports with data going back to January 2008. The information is secure because it’s encrypted using secure socket layer (SSL) technology, the state-of-the-art industry standard,” said Pease.
Shell Trading works with other major oil companies and producers to acquire energy resources, combine them into larger energy resource pools and bring them to market.
Shell Trading customers who have not received notification about the Lease Administration site, should call 1-800-992-8470 for more information.
About Shell Trading
Shell Trading is the principal trading and shipping business integrating the worldwide energy trading activities of the Royal Dutch Shell plc, of which Shell Trading (US) Company is an integral part. With trading volumes of about 13 million barrels of oil equivalent per day, the global Shell Trading organization has the skill base and international scope to capitalize on trading opportunities inherent in Shell’s asset and market positions around the world.
With headquarters in Houston, Texas, and employees located in key locations across North America, Shell Trading (US) Company offers a comprehensive portfolio of hydrocarbon products and services, including shipping and other forms of transportation. Shell Trading (US) Company markets and trades crude, oil products, chemicals and risk products with counterparties and customers across North America. In addition to other Shell business units, its customers include other trading companies, producers and commercial and industrial end users.
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Dear Editor: This news release was sent to you because many of these lease owners exist in your area.
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