Oil giant Royal Dutch Shell’s chief financial officer Simon Henry said Wednesday the company would… Royal Dutch Shell sees itself as the Mario Draghi of oil companies. While rivals set themselves specific goals for navigating around low oil prices, Shell will simply do “whatever it takes,” as finance boss Simon Henry said Wednesday, to balance the books. Rather like Mr. Draghi , Shell may find it needs to do more, for longer than expected. With oil averaging $34 a barrel in the first quarter, Shell’s earnings were unsurprisingly ugly. But there were nuggets of good news: the company is managing to integrate BG quickly , without a meaningful increase in its cost base. It should see cost savings more quickly, keep operating expenses “lower forever” at $40 billion this year, and expects reduced investment of $30 billion this year. But there is a long way to go from this […]