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June 14th, 2004:

Shanghai Mayor Han Zheng meets with Malcolm Brinded, Vice Chairman Royal Dutch/Shell Group

Shanghai Daily news: Shanghai Mayor Han Zheng meets with Malcolm Brinded, Vice Chairman Royal Dutch/Shell Group

By Wendy Zhang/

Posted 14 June 2004

Shanghai Mayor Han Zheng welcomed a delegation led by Malcolm Brinded, Vice Chairman of the Royal Dutch/Shell Group at the Xing Guo Hotel in the afternoon of June 11.

Mayor Han expected Malcolm Brinded, who is also a member of Shanghai Mayor’s international entrepreneur consulting conference, to raise more suggestions on the city’s development.

The Royal Dutch/Shell Group is appreciated for its long-term focus on the local economy, Han pointed out, adding that Shell is one of the most successful multinationals in the world. read more

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Shell aims to quell rebellion

Daily Mail: Shell aims to quell rebellion

Brett Arends,

14 June 2004

SHELL is racing to head off a potential shareholder revolt at its annual general meeting. Top brass are meeting investors and City pressure groups in a bid to prevent a storm at the meeting in just a fortnight.

‘We’re in discussions with shareholders and we are taking their concerns seriously,’ the company confirmed.

The National Association of Pension Funds, whose members own 20% of the stock market, is preparing to publish its report into the scandal-hit oil giant this week. read more

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Shell Solar to bring electricity to more remote Chinese villages

Solar Access.com: Shell Solar to bring electricity to more remote Chinese villages

Posted 14 June 04

About 100 villagers from a remote Yunnan village in southwest China have access to electricity for the first time, thanks to a Shell Solar project. The Shangnanyaoershi village is the first of 26 villages in Yunnan Province and the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region to be connected to central solar electrification systems under the Shell project.

Further systems will be installed and handed over in another 16 Yunnan villages over the next few months. By September, another nine villages in Xinjiang will have been connected. read more

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Winnipeg Sun: Balmoral to fete Shell CEO Cook

Winnipeg Sun: Balmoral to fete Shell CEO Cook

By LINDSEY WARD, STAFF REPORTER

Mon, June 14, 2004

All-girl school Balmoral Hall is honouring Shell Canada’s Linda Cook as the first female CEO of one of the largest integrated oil and gas companies in Canada. Cook will receive the school’s second annual Yes She Can award at a special dinner at The Fairmont Winnipeg tonight.

“It was established to celebrate positive role models for Balmoral Hall students while co-currently recognizing exceptional women who have gained national and international prominence in their area of expertise,” the school’s director of advancement, Tina Alto, said of the honour. read more

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Nigerian Troops Raid Oil Delta Village; 6 Killed

The Wall Street Journal: Nigerian Troops Raid Oil Delta Village; 6 Killed

DOW JONES NEWSWIRES

Posted 14 June 04

LAGOS (AP)–Soldiers and police in speedboats with mounted machine guns raided a village in Nigeria’s oil delta, killing at least five men who resisted the operation to seize illegal weapons, officers said Saturday.

Local gunmen shot and killed one soldier during Friday’s raid in Ogodobiri village, said Brig. Gen. Elias Zamani, commander of a joint army-police task force in the troubled southern Niger Delta.

Zamani visited the village – near Shell’s Forcados export terminal – hours after the raid, when he saw the bodies of five suspected “river pirates” killed by security force troops. “Many others” were likely killed and whisked away by villagers, he added. read more

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Shell faces escalating violence in Nigeria

Financial Times: “Royal Dutch/Shell faces a ‘high intensity conflict’ in Nigeria’s Niger Delta as severe as those in Chechnya and Colombia”

Shell faces escalating violence in Nigeria

By Michael Peel in Lagos

Posted 14 June 04

Royal Dutch/Shell faces a “high intensity conflict” in Nigeria’s Niger Delta as severe as those in Chechnya and Colombia, according to an internally-commissioned report.

The confidential document, which has been seen by the Financial Times, says organised large-scale oil theft from pipes and well-heads is “the most significant accelerator” of conflict.

It estimates the theft at between 100m and 250m barrels of crude a year, giving the thieves an income of between $1.5bn and $4bn. Official oil company and government estimates are generally lower. read more

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Investors ‘to embarrass’ Shell board

Financial Times: Investors ‘to embarrass’ Shell board

By Sundeep Tucker in London

Posted 14 June 04

At least six leading investors in Shell Transport & Trading are planning to ask “embarrassing” questions at this month’s annual meeting unless the company provides satisfactory details of its internal review into governance and structure.

The oil group, which is reeling after four reserves downgrades since January and management upheaval, has promised to review its corporate structure.

But shareholders are growing increasingly impatient at the lack of transparency surrounding the process and, unusually, are preparing to vent publicly their frustration at the London meeting on June 28. Royal Dutch Petroleum, Shell’s larger Netherlands-based arm, holds its annual meeting in The Hague on the same day. read more

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Shell investors threaten to revolt

Financial Times: Shell investors threaten to revolt

Posted 14 June 04

Royal Dutch/Shell faces the prospect of a investor revolt. With two weeks before the oil giant’s delayed twin annual meetings, institutional shareholders are growing increasingly frustrated by the secrecy surrounding the internal review of its governance structures and they plan to go public with their grievances, in person, at the meetings.

Since January 9 Shell has downgraded its proved oil reserves four times and, in the aftermath, shed Sir Philip Watts, group chairman, Walter van de Vijver, head of exploration and production, and Judy Boynton, finance director. It is also facing numerous class action lawsuits and regulatory investigations in the US, UK and the Netherlands. read more

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Investors ‘to embarrass’ Shell board

Financial Times: Investors ‘to embarrass’ Shell board

By Sundeep Tucker in London

Posted 14 June 04

At least six leading investors in Shell Transport & Trading are planning to ask “embarrassing” questions at this month’s annual meeting unless the company provides satisfactory details of its internal review into governance and structure.

The oil group, which is reeling after four reserves downgrades since January and management upheaval, has promised to review its corporate structure.

But shareholders are growing increasingly impatient at the lack of transparency surrounding the process and, unusually, are preparing to vent publicly their frustration at the London meeting on June 28. Royal Dutch Petroleum, Shell’s larger Netherlands-based arm, holds its annual meeting in The Hague on the same day. read more

This website and sisters royaldutchshellgroup.com, shellnazihistory.com, royaldutchshell.website, johndonovan.website, and shellnews.net, are owned by John Donovan. There is also a Wikipedia segment.

Shell investors threaten to revolt

Financial Times: Shell investors threaten to revolt

Posted 14 June 04

Royal Dutch/Shell faces the prospect of a investor revolt. With two weeks before the oil giant’s delayed twin annual meetings, institutional shareholders are growing increasingly frustrated by the secrecy surrounding the internal review of its governance structures and they plan to go public with their grievances, in person, at the meetings.

Since January 9 Shell has downgraded its proved oil reserves four times and, in the aftermath, shed Sir Philip Watts, group chairman, Walter van de Vijver, head of exploration and production, and Judy Boynton, finance director. It is also facing numerous class action lawsuits and regulatory investigations in the US, UK and the Netherlands. read more

This website and sisters royaldutchshellgroup.com, shellnazihistory.com, royaldutchshell.website, johndonovan.website, and shellnews.net, are owned by John Donovan. There is also a Wikipedia segment.
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