Article spins this as Shell withdrawing from hydrocarbons but in reality this is likely more of a strategic business decision based upon the geography of where plant is located and the dwindling Alaska/West Coast crude resources available to it. Shell is most decidedly not abandoning crude processing plants around the world and will continue to build and operate them.
Here's a partial list of those plants.
https://www.shell.us/about-us/projects-and-locations.htmlShell for many years has been at the forefront of utilizing the Fischer-Tropsch method of chemical conversion of natural gas into liquids and operates a large scale refinery in SE Asia using that process.
Shell is also full of shit at its Idaho Bioplant where it processes methane gas from cow manure. SHELL DOWNSTREAM BOVARIUS, BIOMETHANE FACILITY (WENDELL, IDAHO)