Comments on: Mission

By: guesswho

guesswho — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:29:00 +0000

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?

By: guesswho

guesswho — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:22:06 +0000

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?

By: royallyshafted

royallyshafted — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 11:21:47 +0000

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)

By: John Donovan

John Donovan — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:06:13 +0000

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.

By: uscitizen

uscitizen — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 15:25:36 +0000

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.