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Good Month for BG Chairman: Gets Married, Sells Company to Shell

The Royal Dutch Shell Plc gas station in Portland, Tennessee on Jan. 16, 2015.
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By Javier Blas, Ruth David and Dinesh Nair

April 8, 2015 at 8:59 PM UTC

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It was a month of marriages for BG Group Plc Chairman Andrew Gould -- for himself and his company.

While the 68-year-old Gould was getting married around Easter, he was finishing up selling BG to Royal Dutch Shell Plc for $70 billion in a speedily arranged deal that is the biggest energy transaction in at least a decade.