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		<title>Top job shake-up at Shell in pipeline as new chief eyes costs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Shell has suffered a small exodus of talent in the past six months, including Lynn Laverty Elsenhans, 52, who reported to Mr Routs as head of refining and chemicals and was seen as a strong candidate to succeed him. Losing too many more top executives would be embarrassing.]]></description>
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		<title>Stranded but not sunk amid a deepening financial storm</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In May, Shell provoked uproar when it withdrew from the world's largest offshore windfarm - the London Array in the Thames Estuary - after the costs allegedly had risen from £1 billion in 2003 to £3 billion.]]></description>
		<link>http://royaldutchshellplc.com/2008/11/20/stranded-but-not-sunk-amid-a-deepening-financial-storm/</link>
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		<title>Crack down on overseas bribes, ministers told</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For years, the government has been criticised for failing to pass strong legislation to stop payments by British companies to foreign officials and politicians, in return for contracts.]]></description>
		<link>http://royaldutchshellplc.com/2008/11/20/crack-down-on-overseas-bribes-ministers-told/</link>
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		<title>Bosses who ignore bribery and corruption face 10 years in jail under new laws (take note Shell)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Britain's international reputation took a battering two years ago when then-Prime Minister Tony Blair called off a Serious Fraud Office inquiry into BAE Systems' multi-billion pound arms deal with Saudi Arabia.]]></description>
		<link>http://royaldutchshellplc.com/2008/11/20/bosses-who-ignore-bribery-and-corruption-face-10-years-in-jail-under-new-laws-take-note-shell/</link>
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		<title>In BAE Probe, U.S. Steps In Where Brits Fear to Tread (the corruption scandal in which Shell played a key role)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The BAE case is four years long, with a complicated history. But it springs from some fairly simple acts: In order to secure a lucrative arms contract, BAE allegedly paid off several Saudi officials, including Prince Bandar bin Sultan bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud. The payments allegedly totaled some $2 billion over nearly two decades.]]></description>
		<link>http://royaldutchshellplc.com/2008/11/20/in-bae-probe-us-steps-in-where-brits-fear-to-tread-the-corruption-scandal-in-which-shell-played-a-key-role/</link>
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		<title>Shake-up in pipeline as Shell chief eyes costs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Royal Dutch Shell is considering changing the structure of its top executive team, in a move seen by some industry insiders as a precursor to a wider shake-up under Peter Voser, who takes over as chief executive in July.]]></description>
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		<title>Shell and Dutch Government exchange managers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Shell and the Dutch government will exchange managers. That has been agreed on by Peter de Wit, director of Shell Netherlands, and Minister Guusje ter Horst (Domestic Affairs).]]></description>
		<link>http://royaldutchshellplc.com/2008/11/19/shell-and-dutch-government-exchange-managers/</link>
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		<title>Oil groups expect $40 barrel</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The world’s national oil companies expect oil prices to fall further and will cancel most planned investment projects even at current levels, according to the head of a Chinese state-owned group.]]></description>
		<link>http://royaldutchshellplc.com/2008/11/19/oil-groups-expect-40-barrel/</link>
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		<title>No moves on Iraq oil law in KRG-Baghdad talks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Get your copy of the Shell-Iraq gas Heads of Agreement.]]></description>
		<link>http://royaldutchshellplc.com/2008/11/19/no-moves-on-iraq-oil-law-in-krg-baghdad-talks/</link>
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		<title>ConocoPhillips, a Cheap Big Oil Play</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ConocoPhillips' strength in natural gas production and oil refining and recent oil deals in Russia and the Mideast make its beaten-down shares promising]]></description>
		<link>http://royaldutchshellplc.com/2008/11/19/conocophillips-a-cheap-big-oil-play/</link>
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