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August 9th, 2009:

Libyans in bid for Shell’s giant Stanlow facility in Cheshire

By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 10:20 PM on 09th August 2009

The Libyans could be in charge of over a sixth of Britain’s petrol production if the controversial African nation wins the auction for Shell’s giant Stanlow facility near Ellesmere Port in Cheshire.

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Libya’s National Oil Corporation is teaming up with Essar, the Indian mobile phone company, to make a bid.

Stanlow is being sold along with two German refineries with a price tag of £1.5billion.

The Gaddafi regime is already a big investor in the UK. read more

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Insight on Shell/Motiva changes by “Jo Blow”

The comments below were supplied by a contributor to our Shell Blog who posts under the name of “Jo Blow”. The contributors name and email address have been supplied. When comments are of this quality, we will publish them as articles.

By Jo Blow

I am happy to see the activity and posts that continue to populate this site, some I agree with fully, some I see as having merit although the message is mired in a barrage of pointless bashing of all staff folks.

First I would like to comment on Paddy’s most recent posting, very insightful, and well written, I agree with you on many of your points, however I do not believe Shell will divest its entire downstream refining business.  I do believe the portfolio will look very different in the near future.  I believe you will see a large push within Shell/Motiva to focus on its larger most complex facilities, these facilities are best positioned on the surface to weather the times ahead in the oil industry.  I say on the surface because any business arm that resides in the middle or the end of any supply chain oriented business must be cost competitive.  Lets face it folks, in downstream we still are subject to market price for our feedstock, this in itself tells us that in order to be competitive we have to work our magic at competitive cost to be able to then sell our finished products (again at a market price) for a profit.  So even a large complex facility will have no position in the portfolio if it can not accomplish this.  I think this next point is the one most missed among many in the downstream businesses. As a large integrated oil company, exploration and production of crude is the future that drives the desire to have a downstream business. Pay attention to the word “Desire”, having a downstream business is not a necessity, upstream can simply market its feedstock on the open market and still fare well. read more

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Shell shockers…

How Royal Dutch Shell saved Hitler and the Nazi Party (Same motive then, as for Shell dealing with the terrorist Gaddafi, the corrupt Saudi regime and the fanatical Iranian mullahs now: access to oil)


“WANTED NOTICE” ON MALCOLM “TFA” BRINDED (Former Shell HSE Group Auditor, Bill Campbell, says inaction of Brinded contributed to unlawful killing of Shell offshore workers in explosion on Brent Bravo Platform in Sept 03)


Two men and a website mount vendetta against ShellSUNDAY TIMES ARTICLE 19 JULY 2009: “Their site has become a major thorn in the side of Shell, publishing a relentless stream of insider leaks and negative commentary.” read more

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The writing is on the wall for Shell’s downstream business

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The days when it was beneficial for an oil company to be vertically integrated with business all the way from the well head to the petrol pump are long since gone. Shell’s decision to move out of refining in the United Kingdom is logical and almost certainly the precursor of a complete withdrawal from the “downstream”.

In the past the “Seven Sisters” secured an almost monopolistic control of the production, transportation, refining, distribution and marketing of oil. This gave them incremental margins all the way along the supply chain and meant that they developed competencies at every step along the way. Although the production of crude oil involved wholly different skills and disciplines to, say, the marketing of automotive fuels and lubricants through petrol stations Shell and the rest were quite comfortable with the creation and management of organisations that had all of these competencies. Indeed when I joined Shell in the mid 1960s those of us in marketing did not see ourselves in any way as the poor relations in the Shell Group. But over the years this began to change. read more

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Libyans bid for Shell sites

The Sunday Times

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Danny Fortson

LIBYA’s national oil company and two billionaire Indian brothers are among the contenders to buy Britain’s second-largest oil refinery.

Shell’s Stanlow complex near Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, produces a sixth of the UK’s petrol and is the oil giant’s only refinery in Britain. However, the company has put it up for sale as it tries to rein in its huge cost base and struggles with the effects of an oil price that is half the level of the historic high hit last year.

Shell last month reported a sharp fall in profits and Peter Voser, chief executive, has launched a savage efficiency drive that is expected to cost thousands of jobs.
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