By John Donovan In its apparent desperation to increase production and rebuild reserves after the 2004 securities fraud and the further loss of reserves arising from the Sakhalin-2 debacle, Shell management seems to have completely lost its moral compass (if it ever had one). We first became aware of this over a decade ago. Duplicity in [...]
Posts on ‘August 5th, 2007’
From ‘Employee Spotlight’: Hugh Mitchell, Royal Dutch Shell Group HR Director
Employee Spotlight: Hugh Mitchell, Royal Dutch Shell Group HR Director This section features a pen portrait of one of our colleagues in each issue. In this issue we will take a closer look at Hugh Mitchell – Shell HR Director. Tell us a little bit about your career Since joining Shell in 1979 my career [...]
The Sunday Telegraph: Cold war breaks out as Russia freezes out rivals in Arctic
By Liam Halligan, Economics Editor, Sunday Telegraph 5 August 2007 Almost precisely seven years ago, a Russian nuclear submarine – K-141 Kursk – became stranded on the floor of the icy Barents Sea. One of the first vessels to be launched after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Kursk was the largest attack submarine [...]
The Sunday Times: Iran gives Taliban hi-tech weapons to fight British (*Yet Shell still intends to do business with Iran despite the threat of U.S. sanctions)
August 5, 2007 Tim Albone, Islam Qala, Herat province British troops in Helmand province fighting the Taliban face a new danger as sophisticated Iranian weapons and explosives are being smuggled into Afghanistan. In the dusty frontier town of Islam Qala, near Herat, on the Afghan side of the border with Iran, weapons and explosives such [...]
The Sunday Times: Russia goes for Pole at ice station Putin
August 5, 2007 Tony Allen Mills, New York The world’s great shipbuilders are poring over designs for ice-breaking supertankers. Canada is spending billions on gunboats. Last week Russia planted its flag on the seabed beneath the North Pole. The next cold war has already started and this one will be frozen. The battle for the [...]
MALCOLM BRINDED Presentation to Credit Suisse Oil and Gas conference
To view MALCOLM BRINDED Presentation to Credit Suisse Oil and Gas conference on 5 JUNE 2007 click here: Malcolm Brinded June 2007 presentation.pdf (Malcolm Brinded is Executive Director Of Royal Dutch Shell Exploration & Production)
Bloomberg: South African Oil Companies Improved Pay Offer, Union Says
By Carli Lourens Aug. 4 (Bloomberg) — BP Plc, Royal Dutch Shell Plc and other oil refiners in South Africa improved their wage offer to local workers in a bid to end a strike that has led to fuel shortages in Africa’s largest economy. “We can’t say yet what the improvement is,” Welile Nolingo, secretary-general [...]
ameinfo.com: IPIC, Shell eye Turkmenistan
Sunday 5 August 2007 United Arab Emirates: The UAE’s International Petroleum Investment Company and Royal Dutch Shell are weighing up possible joint oil and gas exploration projects in Turkmenistan, reported Reuters citing the WAM news agency. The firms are also planning a $500m urea plant with a capacity of 1m tonnes per annum. The IPIC [...]
AAP News (Australasia): Fed: Vaile won’t rule out enforcing ethanol target compliance
CANBERRA, Aug 4 AAP – Deputy Prime Minister Mark Vaile says he hopes it will not be necessary to enforce measures so that oil companies reach the federal government’s ethanol retail target, but has not ruled it out. Shortly after opening Shell Australia’s 200th converted E10 (10 per cent ethanol) service station at Manuka in [...]
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