Mission
royaldutchshellplc.com is an entirely non-commercial website
Our objectives are simple. We want Royal Dutch Shell executives to act at all times in accordance with Shell General Business Principles which include the claimed core principles of honesty, integrity, openness and respect for people in all of Shell’s dealings.
This is surely not an unreasonable ambition given that the principles were devised by Shell, are promoted by Shell and are supposedly current and binding on all Shell operations everywhere. In other words, we are only asking Shell executives to do what they already claim to be doing.
The plain fact is that if Shell executives had abided with the SGBP, scandals such as the reserves fraud involving blatant deceit and cover-up, the preventable Brent Bravo deaths which flowed from the Shell “Touch F*** All” safety culture on North Sea Platforms, and the more recent PR humiliations arising from outrageous examples of greenwash advertising, could not have occurred.
We do not believe that it is morally acceptable that Shell executives are indemnified so that even if they cheat, deceive and cover-up serious misdeeds, treating shareholders and the public as gullible fools, they are still able to walk away as winners. In the case of Sir Philip Watts, with a severance package/pension pot reportedly worth $18.5 million USD. We think that this is disgraceful situation at odds with all ethical norms including the SGBP and will continue to say so on this website.
The SGBP is being been used as a PR tool to promote undeserved confidence in the scruples and honesty of Shell senior management. For example, the SGBP featured in the Form 20F Declarations filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission thereby generating confidence in the proven reserves volumes which had been inflated i.e. were false.
While Shell execs continue to make pledges of ethical trading which they flout, we will continue our humble efforts to expose their hypocrisy and we welcome the support of others who like us are not prepared to put up with such deception.
The gap between Shell rhetoric and reality is evidence from Shell’s appalling track record including a leadership role in price fixing cartels, numerous Clean Air Act violations, repeated environmental infringements, multimillion dollar fines for groundwater contamination, more fines for unauthorised venting and flaring of gas. We also have to add to this litany, Shell’s exploitation and reckless disregard of the safety of its employees and its global espionage operation against its own employees trying to prevent whistleblowers. Shell’s espionage activity in the USA and Nigeria have been exposed in 2010.
Shell employees in Africa protest against being ’sold’ by Shell
In the wake of Shell “lies corruption, despoliation and death”: “Unloveable Shell, the Goddess of Oil”
Examples from Wikipedia
Environmental Issues
Release of chemical pollutants at Shell Texas Deer Park complex
Emission violations at Shell Martinez refinery in California
Environmental infringements by Shell in Louisiana
Groundwater contamination by Shell in USA
Unauthorised venting and flaring of gas by Shell in USA
Shell Pipeline rupture in Washington
Environmental law infringements in Brazil
Refinery contamination in Texas
Emission violations at Shell Wood River Refinery in Illinois
Shell settles Martinez Refinery dumping suit for $3 Million
Shell fined $19.75 million for oil spill from Martinez Refinery
Explosion at Shell Louisiana refinery
Pollution at Rocky Mountain Arsenal, Denver, Colorado
Safety Issues
- 1 Fatal explosion at Equilon Puget Sound Refinery
- 2 Developments in March 2007
- 3 Resolution of Shell safety problems may impact on CEO succession
- 4 The Brent Bravo accident and aftermath
- 5 Allegations made by Bill Campbell, former North Sea OIM & Group Auditor of Shell International
- 6 Concerns expressed by Bill Campbell
- 7 Offshore unions voice safety concerns over pending sale of Shell North Sea assets
- 8 Oil majors send safety chiefs to summit as criticisms mount
- 9 Health and Safety Executive partially uphold claims about Shell safety
- 10 February 2008 allegations of safety concerns over Shell North Sea rigs
- 11 Shell admits blame for near disaster at Merseyside Refinery
- 12 Shell safety critical issues raised in March 2008
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on Nov 5th, 2009 at 3:29 am
You would think that Shell Upstream being run by a facilities engineer (“TFA” Brinded) that they would get their major facility projects right. The major project track record over the last five years is abysmal – Bonga offshore Nigeria, Sakhalin Russia, Khashagan Khazakstan, even Harweel Oman all have huge cost blowouts totalling $billions and delays in both first production and in reaching plateau and country stakeholders dragging back ownership and control from Shell.
While project managers are getting shot, does no one on high realise that the system is broke, that Shell just cannot manage such projects as most of its senior people grew up in the low cost era 1987-2000 when very few of these projects happened.
When will it appoint managers who understand the business and not just how to climb the Shell ladder?
on Nov 5th, 2009 at 3:22 am
Is it true that Shell has invested heavily in downhole electric heating technology for heavy oil to the tune of at least $800 million plus the cost of mega licences in Canada, only to find that it does not work in practice? Is this another case of the technology lunatics running the asylum?
on Jun 6th, 2009 at 12:21 pm
Many thanks to all that showed an interest in the story that alleges that a substantial sum of money was transferred from a Shell account so that a member of the Brunei Royal Family could settled an unrelated court case. We have been surprised at the level of interest in it. Due to the level of interest, we will be posting more detailed information at http://royallyshafted.co.uk/shell-the-brunei-intelligence (copy and paste)
on Nov 21st, 2008 at 1:06 am
Clearly uscitizen you are ill-informed and talking nonsense. Shell received a record breaking fine of £800,000 (over $1.5 million USD) from the Scottish Courts after admitting responsibility for the deaths of Shell employees in a preventable accident on the Brent Bravo North Sea Platform. Shell’s “Touch Fuck All” regime on the platform included falsified safety records. This is all recorded fact.
on Oct 27th, 2008 at 4:25 pm
When I challenged Dononvan about mis using data he said show me where I have said something out of context. Here ya go;
The gap between Shell rhetoric and reality is evidence from Shell’s appalling track record including a leadership role in price fixing cartels, numerous Clean Air Act violations, repeated environmental infringements, multimillion dollar fines for groundwater contamination, more fines for unauthorised venting and flaring of gas. We also have to add to this litany, Shell’s exploitation and reckless disregard of the safety of its employees
Well Donovan – you did it. You have taken performance in one area of the company – and even as a Shell insider I can not help with any facts about the north sea Safety issues, but I can tell you that in the site I work in and the many many sites I have visited – safety is number one in word and action. We take care of our people and out contractors. We stop jobs when they are un safe. So for you to say we have a an attitude of exploitation and reckless disregard of the safety of our employees is a lie and a twisting of facts based on a couple very volatile siuations.