Posts under ‘Tom Purves’

By Joe Blow

It was with some elation that I heard of Mr. Purves’ fall from grace with his superiors. In fact I popped the cork on a fine bottle of wine that I have been saving for just such an occasion.  As I sipped my wine and imagined what must have happened, many theories ran through my mind, “Did Botts suddenly grow a brain”, “Did Williams realize what an idiot Purves was”, “Did Voser finally listen to the people”.  Unfortunately for so many, this is a measure of justice, not the absolute Justice we deserve.

It is no secret to people who have read past comments posted on this blog, Tom Purves is rotten to the core. The destruction he has wreaked on the gulf coast is unimaginable.  It has been mentioned that Tom will see this move as a reward, that is a clear sign of the delusion that he lives in.  The remaining world can clearly see that Tom is being brushed aside so that he may be promptly blamed for the albatross known as “CEP”.  I find it quite comical myself. When Forrest managed CEP it was failing from lack of management, Tom will cause a complete 180 and bring his signature style of micromanagement to the project which should accelerate the projects failure.

The important message in these moves is clear.  Steve Rathweg is being sent in to restore some integrity in the VP role.  The key for Steve is to understand the damage Tom has done in his time, to recognize the remaining threat that Tom’s minions pose, and to figure a way to neutralize and re-engage the people of the gulf coast sites that have been so severely de-moralized.  Steve is a good guy and I expect that he is more than capable of fulfilling this tall order.

Related: Leaked Email from Shell VP Tom Purves reveals confidential Motiva Business Plans

“It would indeed be ironic if the resources of one investigative arm of the U.S. government has been used by Shell in an attempt to impede the Shell/Gale Norton corruption investigation being carried out by another investigative arm of the U.S. government.”

By John Donovan

In December 2009, following an analysis of Shell internal communications and documents supplied to us by Shell in response to a SAR application under the Data Protection Act, it became clear that Shell had once again resorted to cloak and dagger activity directed against us.

Reuters revealed that Royal Dutch Shell had asked an anti-fraud agency “NCFTA”, to target our website – royaldutchshellplc.com – on the basis  that “There will be no attempt to do anything visible to Donovan”.  The article said that NCFTA, the US National Cyber Forensics and Training Alliance in Pittsburgh, did not respond to emails or telephone calls from Reuters on the subject.

In subsequent Shell communications supplied in response to a further SAR application, NCFTA was identified by Shell as being the National Cyber Forensics and Training Alliance, a high tech investigation organization funded and staffed partly by the FBI.

There is nothing new in Shell having a close connection with cloak and dagger organizations.  Some 90 years ago, Shell recruited the then newly retired head of British Military Intelligence, Major General Sir George MacDonogh.   Shell “Corporate Affairs Security” (CAS), the current Shell in-house spook organisation, exposed as a key player in the current undercover operation against us, is headed by Ian McCredie OBE, another former MI6 senior officer. He is Royal Dutch Shell plc Vice-President for Security.

What prompted such attention and activity, mobilizing CAS and a specialist resource of the FBI? The latter move obviously suggested a US connection. Was it because Tom Purves, the unloved Shell Motiva VP had been the subject of leaks to the Donovans? Or was the reason more sinister?

During the same period, another investigative arm of the U.S. federal government was already moving forward with an investigation of alleged corruption relating to Shell Oil General Counsel Gale Norton, the former Secretary of the Interior, whose department awarded Shell three potentially lucrative oil shale prospecting licenses.  This was prior to her joining Shell.  Norton was appointed as Interior Secretary by President George W. Bush whose father, President George Bush, another oil man, had enjoyed a business relationship with Shell through his company, Zapata Offshore.

Our reputation as the worlds leading source of Shell insider information has spread far and wide.  Hence it is perhaps no surprise that we were approached by the federal investigators carrying out the corruption probe (and a Los Angeles Times reporter who broke the story about the corruption investigation). With the help of our network of Shell insiders, we supplied confidential Shell documents to assist the investigation.

Had Shell Oil also recognized our potential as an intermediary and source of  Shell inside information – and the threat this posed? Was this the real reason for Shell’s mobilization of internal and external spying resources?

It would indeed be ironic if the resources of one investigative arm of the U.S. government has been used by Shell in an attempt to impede the Shell/Gale Norton corruption investigation being carried out by another investigative arm of the U.S. government.

It is apparent Mr. Purves… feels that his most valued contribution is to spend his time getting rid of people who are both smarter and more capable then him.

As most of you have seen the insider posting regarding the un-timely departure of Todd Monette from his Technology Manager role at Deer Park Refinery, the word “Perseverance” comes to mind.  It is amazing to this writer that a VP in the Down Stream Manufacturing sector of a large integrated oil company has had nothing better to do for the last year and a half then to sit on high and grind his petty axes.  Seriously, you would think he might be concerned with managing cost structures in refining, constructing a blue goose of a ill thought out refinery expansion that has no market value, or other things consistent with what these blow hards do to earn their colossal salaries.  It is apparent Mr. Purves is not concerned with these things, he feels that his most valued contribution is to spend his time getting rid of people who are both smarter and more capable then him.  As has been previously mentioned here, Mr. Purves does not value others opinions when they differ from his.  The sad thing in this latest revelation is that it begs to question where will Mr. Purves stop?  He has already disposed of most of the more notable people that Mr. Monette has sponsored in his time as a senior leader with Shell/Motiva, I wonder how many others will get caught in his cross hairs.  When you look at the additional departures of James Rhame, and **** ******* at Port Arthur that were carried out the same day it becomes even more surprising.  So lets talk about Mr. Rhame, James was believed by many to be heir apparent to Monette at Port Arthur, Apparently not even his flipping over to Purves’ side could save him.  **** ******* is even more of a shocker as he was reportedly very close to Mr. Purves, I guess Mr. Purves must have questioned his allegiance since by the end of the Monette reign at Port Arthur Mr. ******* was perceived as being tight with Monette.  If I was Forrest Lauher, Steve Sanders, or Jeff “the Funk” Funkouser, I would be concerned. Only so many people can pile into that king sized bed at the lake, and you never know who will be next when it comes to Mr. William T Purves!

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Greetings Folks,

Interesting developments regarding Thornal and Royer, Thanks for bringing them forward Golden Triangle Watchman, I had intended to but got rather busy of late.  Thornal was clearly an example of Purves rewarding his loyal subjects, Royer is a bit surprising.  You see folks Mr. Royer had intended or desired to work a few more years.  Of course, maybe the thought of being underling to the grossly incompetent and flagrantly arrogant Funk might have been to much for Leroy.  Or maybe Funk realized that Leroy was smarter than him and hence a threat.  Ordinarily I would feel sorry for Mr. Royer if it was not his desire to fade off in the sunset, however I don’t and I will tell you why.  Mr Royer is basically a pretty good guy with no guts, he didn’t have the stomach to stand up for his people in early 09 when 1.1 performers mysteriously from mid year review to end of year review became worthless pieces of crap.  As a leader you are duty bound to those below and above you, I dont fault Leroy for the way some people were treated in regards to their IPF, that was clearly above his head.  He did not however have to compromise his integrity and participate in slanderously fabricating untrue performance appraisals for these people.  I hope the shame I know you feel haunts you Leroy!

Lets have some fun, We all know more cuts are coming so lets start a round of speculation on who gets rewarded next.  1.  Larry Patterson  2.  Mr. Poulter  3.  Homer Torres

Regards,

“Jo Blow”

By John Donovan

Shell’s attempts at stemming the flow of leaked Royal Dutch Shell confidential information to this website using external security organizations, involving sinister “invisible” (covert) activity, has self-evidently been less than successful. The flow has increased substantially over recent months, as regular visitors and Shell management will have noticed.

THE MOTIVA MAFIA

It appears that the involvement of “external contacts”, with FBI connections, resulted from concern in June 2009 over postings on our Shell Blog relating to Tom Purves, a Shell / Motiva Vice President.  Mr Purves and his alleged cronies, collectively described as “The Motiva Mafia”, have been the subject of serious allegations from our contributors and remain the target of hostile postings.

The leaked information is of interest to Shell suppliers, the media and rival oil companies who are no doubt laughing themselves silly at the continuing predicament Shell is in. We will shortly publish Shell internal documents confirming that Shell decided long ago that it will never take legal action against us. Too much Shell “internal laundry” – some badly soiled and extremely smelly – to be aired in open court.

This is what Shell Media said to Fox News about us:

“John and Alfred Donovan well known in UK / Hague. They perceive Shell played them and so have made it their mission to embarrass, belittle and criticize Shell, which they do quite well. Their website, royaldutchsellplc.com is an excellent source of group news and comment and I recommend it far above what our own group internal comms puts out.”

What a great endorsement that Shell never thought would fall into our hands.

The latest leaked information on Shell appointments is printed below.

Upstream International EC-3 Appointments

Asia
Upstream Malaysia HSE&SD Manager – Alaister Maiyor
UIA Manager Logistics – Azmi Mahras
UIA Manager Production – Gordon Ronaldson
UIA Wells Manager – Koos Koole
Upstream Systems, Assur. & Perform. Mngr – Krishna Bala
UIA Safety Manager – Mauricio Serrano
UIA Technology&Performance Manager – Min-Teong Lim
Manager Maintenance and Integrity – Mohamad Azmi
Upstream New Zealand HSE&SD Manager – Neil Harvey Burton
UIA Environment Manager – Sajali Hj-Kip
Asset Manager Sabah – Sharbini Suhaili
UIA Engineering Manager – Simon Ong
Upstream Philippines HSE&SD Manager – Teodoro Tinga
Upstream China HSE & SD Manager – William Zhang
UIA Sustainable Development Manager To be resourced later

Australia
Technical Lead-Gorgon, Wheatstone & Iago – Doug Blacklock
Prelude Safety Manager – Gerry Dixon
Operations Manager – Ginette MacIsaac
Prelude ECOP Manager – Ian Grose
Technical Assurance & Capability Manager – Marcel Pieren
Technical Lead – BCT & Sunrise – Martin Brown
Technical Lead – East Browse (Prelude) – Peter Unstead
Technical Lead – NWS Thiam-Guan Tan
HSE Management Lead To be resourced later

Exploration
RXHM Russia, Caspian & Ukraine – Aafke Bouma
RXN MENA & XM NOV – Adrian Mellin
XM North Sea & Onshore – Bram Bruijn
Sustainable Development Manager-  David Harper
RXC Europe & SSA – Erik Mason
RXN Europe & SSA – Govert Van Beusekom
XM New Venture Operations – Graham Tiley
Regional HCM Manager M. East & N. Africa Gwendolyn Anson
XM Malaysia Hans-Jurg Meyer
RXC Australia / Discipline Advisor – Ian Wilson
Strategy & Portfolio Manager – Joachim Reinhardt
RXN Manager Asia & XM Small Ventures – John Voon
HCM Senior Manager – Jonathan Holroyd
New Play Development Manager – Joseph Brannan
Commercial Manager Kaj – Alexander Hemmes
Regional HCM Manager Europe & SS Africa – Leon Hoffman
RXC Russia, Caspian & Ukraine – Mario Mussini
RXC MENA – Mark Doyle
RXHM Asia – Mark Harvey
RXHM Australia Martijn Verwoerd
XM / RXN Manager Caspian – Menno de Ruig
New Venture Opportunity Delivery Manager – Michael Foley
TL Browse – Michael Harvey
TL Carnarvon – Neil Frewin
XM Russia – Nick Feast
GM / XM China – Patrick McVeigh
RXC Asia – Richard Barrett
HCM Portfolio Manager – Trey Nash

Europe
Discipline Head Operations & UI/UA CO2 – Andy Jackson
Asset Manager OneGas – Ante Frens
Project Director – Brent Decommissioning – Austin Hand
HSE Country Manager UK & Ireland – Chris Paul
SD & CO2/CCS Manager – Christiaan Luca
Technical Manager NOV Europe – David Kemshell
Regional Resource Volume Manager – Doug Connell
Discipline Head Maint/Int & GDH Logist. – Edwin Blom
Development Engineering Manager – Eelco Von Meyenfeldt
Prod. Perf. Lead & Op Excel. Coordinator – Greg Washington
HSE Country Manager Norway – Gro Cederlof
Audit Manager Upstream Europe – Heiner Gulbis
Functional Services Manager – Jaap Klein Nagelvoort
HSE Country Manager NL – Jakob Van der Wal
Asset Manager Land – Johan Atema
Asset Manager Groningen – Johan De Haan
Project Delivery Manager – John Wilkinson
Asset Manager CNNS – Ken Robertson
Asset Manager X Border – Knut Mauseth
NOV Manager Denmark – Nicola Gordon
Business Improvement Manager – Orietta Ruggier
Global Hydrocarbon Maturation Manager – Paul Zeppenfeldt
NOV Manager Norway / Subsurface Lead Per-Olaf Hustad
Environment Discipline Manager – Ross Clephan
NOV Manager UK – Simon Daman Willems
Discipline Head PT/PC & WRM Program Lead – Stuart Clayton
Technical Planning & Integration Manager – Ward Wiersema
Business Adviser to EVP Europe – Wessel de Haas
Governance & Systems Manager To be resourced later
Improvement Manager To be resourced later
Safety Discipline Manager To be resourced later

Commercial, New Business, LNG
Head LNG Strategy and Portfolio – Ajay Shah
Senior Opportunity Lead MENA – Ajit Bansal
Senior Deal Lead – Alexander Boertje
Country Commercial Lead – Angela Cleveland
Economics Lead – Angela Fraschini
Lead Portfolio & Business Intelligence – Anna Halpern-Lande
Country Commercial Lead – Bard Ter Haar
Country Commercial Lead – Ben Taylor
NOV Commercial Lead BCT – Bob Cowan
Asset Economics Lead – Chris Boccalatte
NOV Commerical Lead Arrow/Queensland – Craig Nicol
NOV Commercial Lead NWS – Dave Jillett
Senior Deal Lead EU, CIS & A&D – David Llewellyn
GM LNG SRM CIS & Europe – David Rimmer
Lead Power Group – Dieter Krapp
Lead Deal Delivery Economics – Erik Wolters
Sr Opportunity Lead EU & SSA – Fiona McLeod
Commercial Lead Russia – Fridtjof Wisur
Senior Opportunity Lead Russia & CIS – Gennady Lakhov
Commercial Lead Malaysia Gopalan-Krishnan Papachan
Lead Contracts Agreement & Unitisation – Greg Batt
Regional Commercial Advisor – HIOH-HUI Kho
Senior Deal Lead – Jalal Abu-Bakar
Commercial Lead & Country Chair Libya – Jan Willem Eggink
Senior Opportunity Lead Asia – Jefferson Edwards
GM Business & Govt Relation – Jimmy Ahmed
Commercial Services Lead – Katherin Domansky
GM Commercial Negotiations – Kester Mgbodille
Snr Opportunity Lead MA&Special Studies – Maarteen Garvelink
Commercial Lead Iraq – Marco Marsili
Commercial Lead Philippines – Martin Bates
Senior Deal Lead SSA – Martin Foley
Senior Opportunity Lead Australia – Neil Fairweather
GM Floating LNG – Neil Gilmour
NOV Commercial Lead Gorgon – Pat Darrigan
NOV Commercial Lead Sunrise – Paul Siffleet
XtL theme lead – Paul van Rijssen
Capability Advisor – Paul Williams
GDH Upstream Economics – Peter Grieve
Commercial Lead Gulf – Rob Dakers
Senior Deal Lead – Roel Maas
GM Commercial Advice,Innovation & Growth – Roger Bounds
Senior Deal Lead – Ron Essers
Commercial Lead New Zealand – Ron Kelly
Commercial Lead Kazakhstan & C. Asia – Ronan Deasy
Senior Deal Lead – Saeid Najari
Senior Deal Lead – Samia Nehme
Exploration Commercial Lead – NOV – Sheila Graham
Senior Deal Lead Australia – Steve Phimister
Commercial Integration & BV Manager – Stuart Mcgeoch
Commercial Lead Levant – Taisir Anbar
Senior Opportunity Lead Qatar – Thorsten Viertel
NOV Commercial Lead Iago/Wheatstone – Tracey Jerrat
Senior Deal Lead – Wim Riemens
Capability Advisor To be resourced later
Chief of Staff To be resourced later
Commercial Interfaces Manager (DS) To be resourced later
Commercial Lead North Africa To be resourced later
Corporate Affairs Manager To be resourced later
Country Commercial Lead To be resourced later

MENA
Audit Manager UIC/M/Q – Albert Holtslag
Technical Assurance Manager -Barbara Lak
Road Safety Manager – Hendrik Moorrees
HSE & SD Manager – Jane-Louise Alcock
Operational & Functional Excell. Manager – Peter Warda
Country Chair Abu Dhabi – Salar Babajan
Business Manager – Sander Koster
Manager JV Governance – Tom Everitt
Country Chair Iran To be announced later
Technology Manager To be resourced later
Upstream Advisor Pakistan To be resourced later

Qatar
Construction/Commissioning HSE Interface Leader – Abigail Bralee
Audit Manager UIC/M/Q – Albert Holtslag
Deputy Technical Manager – Effiong Okon

Russian/Caspian
Audit Manager UIC/M/Q – Albert Holtslag
Regional HSE Manager – Antonina Sulkhova
Regional Environmental/SD Manager – Anzhelika Vasilyeva
Senior Commercial/LNG Manager – Eamonn Cullen
Projects & Engineering Manager – Julian Masters
SPD SHA and Production Manager – Mark Ellis
Technology Manager – Max Prins
Gas Market Analyst – Natalia Ivanova
Commercial Manager/GzP Interface – Peter Whyte
Commercial Analyst – Vladimir Smelov

Sub-Saharan Africa
Operations Manager – Darren Holmes
Technical Manager – Francis Shaw
GM DeepWater Projects- Jerry Jackson
Technical Manager – Lars Roland Stoltz
MD Nigeria Gas – Philip Mshelbila
GM Midstream / NBD Gas – Ruud de Jongh
HSE & Commercial Manager -Taco Van Der Harst
GM Upstream Gas – Victor Okoronkwo
Competence & Business Improvement Mgr To be resourced later

Safety, Environment & SD
Strategic Issues Specialist – Angela Shaw
Environment Manager – Debbie Wright
Manager Sustainable Development & SP – Dorine Bosman
SP Competence Manager – Gitanjali Khosla
CO2 Senior Analyst – Guus Kessler
Manager HSE & SD Assurance – Jitze Lukkes
Communities Development Manager – Jordon Kuschminder
NBD & Social Investment Manager – Karen Westley
Incident, Learning & Competence Manager – Oliver Kleiber
Manager Operational Safety – Paul Rocchi
Audit Manager Upstream Sub Saharan Africa – Peter Oriaifo
CCS Portfolio Manager – Tim Bertels
SD Delivery Manager Titus – Fossgard-Moser
Manager Operational Safety – Willem Peuscher
Performance Reporting & Planning Manager To be resourced later
SP Assurance Manager To be resourced later

The following appointments are announced/confirmed for Upstream Americas

Heavy Oil

GM In-Situ Operations – Anders Ekvall
Manager, Technical Services – Stephen Fowler
Manager, Operations Services & Support – Jason Coady
Manager, Design Engineering – Barry Maguire
GM, Project Delivery – Allan Hart
Manager, Construction – Dave Widdifield
Manager, Project Services – Ken McNair
Project Manager, MRM Flare – Duncan Lancaster
Manager, Joint Ventures – Richard Duperval
Manager, Commercial Operations – Nicolas Vaschetto
Manager, Cost Leadership – Mark Little
Manager, Portfolio & Decision Support – Tim Ebben
Executive Assistant-Heavy Oil HSE & SD – Kerry Lyne Swayze
Cliffdale Focused Delivery Team Mgr – Jessica Willemsen
Manager, In-Situ Development – Daniel Rayes
Manager, Grosmont & Colorado
Development
Dan Whitney
Executive Assistant, EVP Heavy Oil – Heather Bergen
Executive Assistant – Heavy Oil Business &
JV Management
Tina Bragg
Executive Assistant – Heavy Oil Operations – Bonnie Sackett
Executive Assistant – Onshore Projects – Georgette Attley
Executive Assistant – Expansion 1 – Tracy Palmer
Executive Assistant – Development & Technical Services
Marnie Mercier

Onshore Gas
Exploration/Commercial

DEVELOPMENT
Development Manager – Pinedale – John Bickley
Development Manager – South Texas- Sandy Sodersten
Development Manager – Magnolia – Bruce Palfreyman
Development Manager – Foothills – Sylvie Tran
Development Manager – Deep Basin – Frank George
Development Manager -
Groundbirch/Duver
Manuel Willemse
Manager, Technical Services – Sam Whitney

WELLS
Manager, Completions – Cindy Taff
Manager, Drilling- Joe Menezes
WDM-S. Texas – Peter Brett
WDM-Magnolia – Dave Carpenter
WDM-Pinedale – Mike De Witt
WDM-TLP’s – Joe Leimkuhler
WDM-Ground Birch – Mark Duplantis
Manager, Performance Improvement – Eric van Oort
WDM-BCG/FH – Michael Berry
Manager, Well Delivery – UO Anton Vos

PRODUCTION-NORTH
Operations Manager – Groundbirch – Andrew Dahlin
Operations Manager – Deep Basin – Dale Mendryk
Operations Manager – SAB (Wat/JP)-  Louis Auger
Operations Manager – CAB (CAR/BT) – David Kidd
Manager, Surveillance – Barry Labrecque

PRODUCTION-SOUTH
Operations Manager – Pinedale – James Duran
Operations Manager – South Texas – Dennis Pierce
Operations Manager – Magnolia – James Blanton
Manager, Production Support – Randy Ritchie

HSE/SD
Manager, Wells HSE – Steve Davis
Manager, Operational HSE – Roger Leadbeater
Manager, HSE Systems – Byron Smyke

Exploration/Commercial
Senior Specialist, HSE – Arctic To Be Resourced Later
Manager, SE, LNG, Gas Monetization &Wind – Steven Brown
Manager, Geophysics HSE – Cody Buyer
Manager, Alaska Venture Support Integrat – Geri Storer
Deepwater Strategy & Portfolio Advisor Agnete-  Johnsgaard-Lewis
Heavy Oil/Other Strategy & Portfolio Advisor – Andrew Doyle-Linden
Onshore Gas Strategy & Portfolio Advisor – Lance Van Anglen
Deepwater Strategy & Portfolio Manager – David Nickerson
Competitive Intelligence & Mgmt Support – Dean Wang
Business Environment – Andrew Slaughter
Planning & Capital Budget Manager – Jacqueline Benoit
Manager, LNG & Gas Mon – N Am & Carib -Andrea Reyman-Cruz
Manager, LNG & Gas Mon – S America – Marcelo Menicucci
Sr Advisor, Clean Energy & Innovation – James Burns
Manager, Land & Cont – GOM Dev/Prod Int – Kent Abadie
Manager, Onshore Canada Exploration – Philippe Gauthier
Manager, Land Admin – Sonny Lawson
Manager, Regional EPX Consultancy – Hans Van Marle
Manager, Onshore US/LA Exploration – Chandler Wilhelm
Manager, Exploration Technology – Mark Hempton
Manager, Strategy Portfolio & Perf – Jim Bloomfield
Manager, UA Geophysics – Donald Spillman
Manager, Technical Evaluation – Robin Hamilton
Manager, Deal Delivery – Ann Dorlay
Manager, Bus Dev Onshore N America – Bryan Lastrapes
Manager, Business Development Heavy Oil – Bruce Comeau
Manager, Global Exploration Expertise – Calum Macdonald
Manager, Bus Dev Frontier – Randolph Hiscock
Manager, Bus Dev GOM/N Atlantic – Stacey King
Manager, Economics – Len Falsone
Manager, Alaska Operations – Brent Ross
Manager, Gas Midstream – Steve Friedman
Manager, Exploration & Appraisal – Steve Phelps
Manager, Land & Contracts – GOM Exp – Scott Ham
Manager, Hydrocarbon Maturation – Jan Ciaston
Manager, GOM – N Atl Greenfield Exp/App – Mark W. Shuster
Manager, GOM – Nearfield Exp/App – Jan Harrell
Manager, S Atlantic Exp/App – Max Brouwers
Regional EPX Consultant – Bradford Prather
Regional EPX Consultant – Ted Godo
Regional EPX Consultant – Erik Goodwin
UAXC Business Advisor – William Langin
Manager, Commercial Excellence – Larry Svab
Manager, Canada Land & Contracts – Stacia West
Manager, Land & Contracts – Onshore US – Keith Morris
Manager, Crude Oil Marketing & Logistics – Michael Faulise

Deepwater
Manager, Safety Systems – Paul Rogers
Manager, Operational HSE – Dev/Services – Gary Brown
Manager, Operational HSE – Prod Assets – Ragini Isham
Development Manager – Growth – Bill Henry
Development Manager – Mars Area Mary Grace Anderson
Sr Advisor, Asset Operations – Kimberly Limmex
Sr Advisor, Asset Operations – Kimarie Michel
Manager, Subsea Surveillance – Michael Benning
Operations Manager – URSA – David Hernandez
Operations Manager – Auger – Blake Hebert
Operations Manager – Mars A/WD – Timothy Frank
Operations Manager – Brutus / BW – Willem Verdaasdonk

Safety, Environment and SD
Operations Manager – MP/RP – Victor Caballero
Manager, Facilities Surveillance – David Brubaker
Operations Manager – Mars B – Jay Trussell
Manager, Tech Deployment & Geo Support -David Cole
Manager, WDP / Petrophysical Support – Susan Waters
Manager, Wells & Reservoir Surveillance – Gregory Andrews
Manager, NOV – Tom Judd
Operations Manager YH / Cognac – Dale Ramsey
Operations Manager Enchilada / Cougar – Joe Cunningham
Manager, Brazil EP Country Coordination – Antonio Guimaraes
Manager, Sub Surface – Brazil – Jan-Henk VanKonijnenburg
Development Manager – BS 4 – David Reid
Operations Manager – BC 10 – Olivier Rogaar
Manager, S America NOV & Production – Maximiliano Hardie

Adm Manager, Operational Excellence – Angel Soriano
Manager, Operations Readiness & Skill – Dale Faucheux
Manager, Engineering Projects – Michael Fairburn
Manager, Maintenance & Integrity – James Rozycki
Development Manager – Subsea – Imad Mohsen
Development Manager – Mature TLPs – Mike Loveland
Manager, Brazil HSE/SD – Claudio Costa
Manager, US Incident Command – Phil Smith
Development Manager – Perdido – Bill Townsley
Operations Manager – Perdido – Chris Smith
Development Manager B&S – Osman Tosun
Development Manager BC10 – Albert Paardekam
Operations Manager – B&S – Walter Baumgartner
Regional Logistics Manager – Dan Flynn
Manager, EP & NBD – Richard Keech

Safety, Environment and SD
Executive Assistant to SD/SP Manager – Kaleene Toback
Technical Safety Manager – A. J. (Jeff) McPhate
Sr. Regional Venture Support Integrator – Rebecca Nadel
OG Venture Support Integrator Lead -Anthony Franchina
HO Venture Support Integrator Lead – Judy Smith
Exp/Comm Venture Support Integrator Lead – Tracy Boyd
DW Venture Support Integrator – Mark Kosiara
SD/SP Specialties Manager – James Thurman
Offshore Regulatory Policy Lead – Kent Satterlee
Onshore Regulatory Policy Lead-U.S – Richard Francis
HSE-SD Systems & Reporting Manager – Walter Rawlings
Mgr. Operational Safety – Hans Boerstra
Mgr. Environmental Performance – Jim Brewington
Mgr. Aboriginal & Community Relations Linda Jefferson
Contractor HSE-SD Manager – Jody Licatino
Incident Investigation Manager – Daniel Fagan
Assurance Manager – Doyle Galloway
DW/Exp/Commercial Env & Reg Manager – Susan Staley
OG and Heavy Oil Env & Reg Manager – Bert Molina
CO2/CCS Manager – Kenneth Loch
Legacy Properties Manager – Skip Koshak
Onshore Regulatory Policy Lead – Canada – Gerry Ertel
Western Region Integrator – Barbara Kornylo

US Country Chair
Manager, US Social Inv/Shell Foundation Frazier Wilson
US Country Chair Integrator -Luis Pinto
Sr Advisor, US Business Affairs – Jesse Saldivar

Other
Audit Manager Upstream Americas – Mike Koinis

Morale is at an all time low, managers and supervisors are more focused on the fear of job stability than effective leadership. Many who have not been affected by the current staff reduction exercises are scared, and some are looking for a way out of Shell.

By John Donovan

Rumors posted earlier today confirmed

A leaked email dated 25 September 2009 sent on behalf of Tom Purves (Royal Dutch Shell Vice President Manufacturing US Gulf Coast and Motiva Vice President of Manufacturing), announces senior staff changes involving the Motiva Norco Refinery, the Shell Norco Chemicals Plant and the Motiva Convent Refinery.

Certain information has been removed to protect our insider source.

THE LEAKED SHELL/MOTIVA INTERNAL EMAIL

From: Deroche, Liz O MOTIVA-DMM/60
Sent: Friday, September 25, 2009 8:33 AM
Subject: Senior staff changes involving the Motiva Norco Refinery, the Shell Norco Chemicals Plant and the Motiva Convent Refinery

The following announcement is being forwarded on behalf of Tom Purves
***********************************************************************************

The following are senior staff changes involving the Motiva Norco Refinery, the Shell Norco Chemicals Plant and the Motiva Convent Refinery

Anne-Marie Ainsworth, General Manager Norco Refinery has decided to leave Motiva for other opportunities.  I want to thank Anne-Marie for the important contributions she has made to both Motiva and Shell.

Recently completed agreements by the owners, allow us to take the next steps in consolidating Motiva Norco Refinery and Shell Chemicals Plant under a single General Manager and leadership team structure.  Consequently I’ve asked, Hermie Bundick, currently serving as General Manager of the Norco Chemicals Plant to serve as the Interim General Manager of the Norco site – covering both refining and chemicals effective immediately.  A GM Norco Site job will be posted on Open Resourcing soon and announced once resourcing activities have been completed.

Please join me in thanking Hermie for his willingness to help Norco during this leadership and governance transition.

Additionally, Tony Pastor, Engineering and Maintenance Manager Norco Refinery will move to Motiva Convent as Production Manager replacing Roxan Kraft whose new appointment was announced earlier.  Given the leadership changes at Norco, the exact timing of Tony and Roxan’s transition will be taken under review and determined in the near future.

Given Tony’s move and agreements by the owners, we will also take steps to consolidate all of the engineering and projects and the maintenance and turnaround activities into two site leadership team roles.  In the near future a Manager Engineering and Projects role and a Manager Maintenance and Turnarounds role will be posted on Open Resourcing.  Engineering and Projects will have all hard side engineering and the project management function. Maintenance and Turnarounds will have all routine and special plant maintenance and the turnaround organization.

Please join me in thanking Tony for his many contributions to Norco and congratulating him on his new appointment.

Tom Purves
Vice President Manufacturing US Gulf Coast and Motiva Vice President of Manufacturing

By “Jo Blow”, a Shell/Motiva Insider.

I was asked to provide commentary on the email below which is a Shell/Motiva leaked email provided to this site by another insider.  This email is believed to be authentic and authored by the sender Tom Purves, Regional Vice President of Downstream Manufacturing for The Americas Gulf Coast Region.  The email was sent to the General Manager of the Motiva Norco Refinery, some site and corporate business planning people, and several finance people.

The purpose of the email appears to outline key cost reduction and margin improvement opportunities along with associated dollar values as it relates to integrating the Shell Norco Chemical Facility with the Motiva Norco Refinery. These two sites are situated side by side along the Mississippi river just outside of New Orleans Louisiana.  This will not be the first time in the history of these sites that they have operated as an integrated facility.

In the email Mr. Purves outlines his expectations for what is to be included in the business plan as it relates to integration of the sites.  It is not surprising that staff reductions in the salaried ranks is recognized as a key cost reduction driver in integrating the sites.  With the sites operating as an integrated facility, the other improvements mentioned in the email should be fairly easy to realize.  This email seems to confirm the following quote from a recent blog posting by “Norco Scum”.

“Now Purves has demanded an additional $2 million in personnel cuts from each of SCC and Motiva at the site by the end of the year, beyond the SPI target. So, hang on, more to come.”

However painful of an exercise this is, the benefits for integrating the sites will actually deliver a strengthened position for the Norco Site within the downstream asset portfolio.  Shell/Motiva must position itself in the short term to weather the current business environment, which is forecast to continue for the next few years.  The cost reduction initiatives already initiated, and the yet to be implemented cost reduction initiatives will likely mean the difference between posting a profit or posting a loss for manufacturing.

In closing, I would like to offer a couple of my observations and opinions as it pertains to this email.  At face value the email and its directed actions is exactly the sort of communication I would expect from Mr. Purves or any other Senior Executive with similar responsibilities.  Tough as it will be from a personnel standpoint for those affected, it will benefit the many that will not be affected.  To realize the savings in maintenance synergies, tankage utilization, and hydrocarbon margin improvement mentioned in the email, it will take the dedicated employee’s at Norco to identify and implement the nuts and bolts of these opportunities both during and after integration.  When you put that in perspective, it becomes paramount to the integration plan’s success for Mr. Purves and his Team to properly manage employee engagement.

LEAKED EMAIL FROM TOM PURVES, SHELL/MOTIVA VP, Manufacturing Gulf Coast

—–Original Message—–

From: Purves, Tom SOPUS-DMG-DMM

Sent: Saturday, August 29, 2009 1:04 PM

To: Ainsworth, Anne-Marie N MOTIVA-DMM/6; Bundick, Hermie L SCC-DMG/8; Howell, Art SDIUS-DFM/675; Co, Quennie L SDIUS-DFM/67; Marczak, Kristin M MOTIVA-DMM/647; Henning, Laurel F MOTIVA-DFC/13

Cc: Bolter, Anthony J SDIUS-DFM/7; Luijten, Marcel P MOTIVA-DVM/3; Pease, Robert W MOTIVA-DVM

Subject: Business Plan Premises for Norco Site Integration

I have now read through and digested all of the notes that have gone around among many of you while I was on vacation. Here is what I would like to build into the business plans for both Motiva Norco and Shell Norco regarding site consolidation.

Salaried Staffing Synergies – reduction of salaried staff and management between the two sides over and above what is already premised with the SPI 100 efforts that have been pursued independently thus far. I recognize that there have already been some limited departmental level consolidations. The premise number to be used in the plans will be $4mln per year split equally between Shell and Motiva. I expect the sites to translate this into specific reductions in people once the site is consolidated. I will need a preliminary estimate of how this is going to happen for discussion in the biz plan. You can bring that to the challenge sessions.

Maintenance Synergy – includes better contractor utiliztion through integrated planning and scheduling, single point control of contract resources, consistent prioritization and supervision and a significant improvement in the use of maintenance material. This is over and above what has already been achieved by the two sites independently. The premise number will be $8mln per year split equally between Shell and Motiva.

Tankage Utilization Improvements – includes reduced tankage rationalization and optimization of working capital including short term opportunities for segregations, additional storage or other movement opportunites to take advantage of the immediate marketplace. This is largely a margin capture item. The premise number will be $1mln per year split equally between Shell and Motiva.

Hydrocarbon Margin Capture Through Unit Operating Options – includes stream routings and unit operational options that create short term opportunities to capture value in the immediate marketplace. This is entirely a margin capture item. The premise number will be $10mln per year split equally between Shell and Motiva.

Thus the benefits we will build into the plan will reflect a $12mln savings for each site in 2010 over what we would have built for each site independently.

I have seen some notes that escalate the margin capture year on year. I am open to that possiblity but I don’t see how that is going to happen beyond the general growth in margins. To that end, if we want to escalate the $10mln in margin savings at 2010 premise margins to “margin of the year”, I could support that. I’d like Tony and Marcel to weigh in on the appropriateness of that approach.

Kristin, Quennie/Art – we will need a specific slide to descirbe this in both the Motiva presentation and the Global M material. Not sure how to translate this into the templates so I leave that to you.

If anybody has a concern or question, please raise it quickly. Thanks…

Tom Purves

Vice President Manufacturing Gulf Coast

Houston One Shell Plaza Room  1236B

Office Telephone              713-241-6363

US & International Cell     713-301-5042

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From “Jo Blow”

Greetings,

Yesterday I posted an article that I am not proud of.  I allowed my emotions to cause me to lower myself in the last paragraph to a level that I personally do not care to sink to and for that I am truly sorry to anyone who may have taken offense to the posting.  In regards to the people suffering through these difficult times, again my heart and prayers go out to you.

Many Thanks,
Jo Blow

For whatever reason inside me, something compels me to continue revisiting the post made by Uncle Tom