London - Royal Dutch Shell said it had agreed to sell its natural gas-producing properties in Wyoming's Pinedale field and Louisiana's Haynesville field for about $2.1bn in cash.
The company also said it had agreed to buy additional acreage in the Marcellus and Utica shale fields in Pennsylvania as part of a series of transactions.
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