Van der Veer claimed with a straight face during the AGM Q & A session that the relative pittance Shell received was a fair price when that was manifestly a false statement.
June 7th, 2008:
Why Shell CEO lied to investors about Russia seizing Sakhalin-2 project
Shell could join Gazprom’s liquefied gas project
Jeroen van der Veer said he had signed a protocol earlier Saturday on the establishment of a working group for Shell's participation in the project with Gazprom's CEO Alexei Miller.
Is it right or fair the describe the Shell reserves scandal as a “Fraud”
Christopher Cox, the Chairman of the SEC is on record as describing the scandal as a fraud when he listed European frauds.
ResearchandMarkets.com: Global Oil Refining Report
The profiles of the major refining companies are also included in the report. The latest news and deals pertaining to the sector are also provided and analyzed.
Oil Jolt Is Fresh Hit to Economy; Stocks Get Slammed
A senior Israeli official told a prominent Israeli daily Friday that an Israeli attack against Iran was "unavoidable"...
Oil hits $139 as jobless figures stun US
Global crude ended a run of lower prices as it jumped by more than $11 a barrel to more than $139 - it has risen more than $17 in two days. The price eventually settled at $138.54. On Wednesday the price had fallen to as low as $122.
Oil price pushed to new records as US economy plunges further
The price of crude oil was catapulted $11.31 to a new all-time high of $139.12 in New York, its biggest one day gain in dollar terms on record, driven by an almost unprecedented rise in US unemployment and signs that Israel is preparing for outright conflict with Iran and on the Gaza Strip.
Wall Street dives as jobless toll leaps and oil hits a record
Banking stocks on Wall Street bore the brunt of a brutal sell-off across the equity market in New York last night on fears that the United States was facing a 1970s-style stagflation crisis triggered by record oil prices.
Oil’s biggest day yet drags down stocks
NEW YORK (AP) - Oil prices made their biggest single-day leap ever Fridayclearing $139, dragging the Dow Jones industrials down nearly 400 points and raising the once-unthinkable prospect of $150 oil and even higher gas prices by the Fourth of July.
Fuel protesters blockade refinery
About 500 people gathered outside the refinery during Friday, with numbers dwindling to about 100 late in the evening, according to one demonstrator, who declined to give his surname.