Royal Dutch Shell Plc, which reported its biggest net loss in more than a decade in October and has halted projects in Canada and the Arctic, is reviewing investments in gas fields to pipelines in New Zealand. The Hague-based company made its first investment in the Pacific Island nation in 1911 and is considering options including a full country exit, Rob Jager, Chairman of Shell Companies in New Zealand said Thursday on a conference call with reporters. Shell earlier this year said it would take a $4.61 billion charge resulting from the withdrawal from offshore drilling in Alaska and an oil-sands project in Canada. “Choices have to be made to streamline the global portfolio,” Jager said on the call. “Shell is increasingly focusing on large growth opportunities, with deep water and integrated gas as growth priorities.” Oil and gas companies are reviewing portfolios and undertaking the biggest belt-tightening in […]