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June 17th, 2004:

The Guardian: Downstream do: ‘worry that Shell is in denial’

The Guardian: Downstream do: ‘worry that Shell is in denial’

17 June 2004

Its tempting to believe that Shell has chosen to hold its annual meeting on June 28 in London’s Docklands for the first time this year so that fewer investors will bother to make the long trek to east London in order to give management a hard time.

The company insists the change of the meeting’s date – which was put back following the reserves scandal – made it hard to find another suitable venue at short notice.

Meanwhile the formal resolutions for the occasion do not suggest any wild confrontations ahead. After the initial flurry of lawsuits from angry American shareholders, the Anglo-Dutch group has pretty much been left alone by the rest of its investors to undertake a promised review of its board and management structures. read more

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‘I’m really very worried for the planet’: Ron Oxburgh is chipping away at the fossilised thinking that cost Shell its reputation

The Guardian: ‘I’m really very worried for the planet’: Ron Oxburgh is chipping away at the fossilised thinking that cost Shell its reputation

David Adam meets the geologist in a big business hotseat

Thursday June 17, 2004

It’s a still day and the flags mounted on the imposing Shell corporate headquarters building on south bank of the Thames are lying limply against their poles, stirred only by the occasional river breeze. As they flutter it’s easy to make out that distinctive logo against the blue sky, but it’s also clear they could do with a clean – the famous red and yellow clam is lying on a distinctly off-white beach. read more

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Oil chief: my fears for planet: Shell boss’s ‘confession’ shocks industry

The Guardian: Oil chief: my fears for planet: Shell boss’s ‘confession’ shocks industry

David Adam, science correspondent

Thursday June 17, 2004

The head of one of the world’s biggest oil companies has admitted that the threat of climate change makes him “really very worried for the planet”.

In an interview in today’s Guardian Life section, Ron Oxburgh, chairman of Shell, says we urgently need to capture emissions of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide, which scientists think contribute to global warming, and store them underground – a technique called carbon sequestration. read more

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Greater efficiency, not a new wonder fuel, is the answer to higher oil prices

The Independent: Greater efficiency, not a new wonder fuel, is the answer to higher oil prices

Hamish McRae:

17 June 2004

Higher oil prices have helped push up both UK and eurozone inflation: the UK is now at 1.5 per cent and the eurozone 2.5 per cent. So it comes as some relief that Opec is seeking to get its members to boost production and hold down the price. And not just its members. Purnomo Yugiantoro, Opec’s president, said he is writing to non-members Angola, Mexico, Oman and Russia to request that they produce more oil as well.

What’s this? Opec trying to get non-members pump more? Surely the whole point of Opec is to try to maximise its members’ own revenues. To do that they need to hold the price at a reasonably high level and to discourage other producers from undermining this strategy. read more

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Investor pressure gets some answers from Shell

Daily Telegraph: Investor pressure gets some answers from Shell

By Christopher Hope, Business Correspondent (Filed: 17/06/2004)

Shell, the embattled oil and gas giant, has buckled under pressure from shareholders and will release some operational information about the review of its corporate structure today or tomorrow.

Shell’s dual structure – it has two boards and is 40pc owned by Shell Transport in the UK and 60pc owned by Royal Dutch in the Netherlands – was blamed for its admission in January that it had overstated “proven” oil and gas reserves by more than 20pc. read more

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They’re trying to prise Shell open but its likely to simply clam up

Daily Telegraph: They’re trying to prise Shell open but its likely to simply clam up

17 June 2004

We don’t know what goes on in Shell board meetings, and the company reckons it’s none of our business anyway. Yesterday’s, though, should have been a cracker. With copies of the White Knight letter in front of them, it must have finally dawned on the directors that they could not, after all, go on treating the shareholders as irritants in the way of running the business.

The letter, fired across the Atlantic to the FT, is signed by Ted White and Eric Knight, representing two big funds with shares in Shell, and merely asks the company to tell the shareholders something useful at the annual meeting a week on Monday. read more

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