August 1st, 2009:
Shell internal email reveals list of 55 VP appointments
Shell Armageddon scenario
The senior management at Shell are dropping like cavalry in the cross hairs of a Gatling gun. Five thousand could go, roughly the same number let loose by BP over the past year. Shell has more layers than its British rival, a bigger refining and marketing business across many continents. It has managers in Kuala Lumpur writing the same memos and ticking the same boxes as they are in Taipei.
ExxonMobil and Shell face multimillion euro claim over paraffin cartel
The Times
1 August 2009
ExxonMobil and Shell: Two of the worlds biggest oil companies are facing a legal claim worth hundreds of millions of euros over their involvement in a long-running cartel to fix the prices of paraffin wax.