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31 December 2007
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Royal Dutch Shell, the Anglo-Dutch oil giant, is believed to be preparing to shed about 3,200 jobs in the latest cost-cutting move by the industry. The company has told staff that it is planning to outsource “a substantial part” of its IT infrastructure services division, which is believed to comprise a total of 3,600 staff.
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/article3111992.ece
The Times: A word in your Shell-like — it’s all gibberish 5 JANUARY 2007
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL: Shell finalizes planned shake-up 2 JANUARY 2008
CNN: Shell Moves With Multi-Pronged Rejig To Tackle Profit Challenge 31 DEC 07
Daily Mail: Shell to axe 3,200 jobs 31 DECEMBER 2007
Financial Times: Shell looks to outsource about 3,200 IT jobs 31 DEC 2007
The Guardian: Shell to outsource 3,200 IT jobs 31 DECEMBER 2007
The Independent: Shell prepares to cut 3,200 jobs 31 DECEMBER 2007
Manchester Evening News: Fears for Shell 30 DECEMBER 2007
Financieele Dagblad
Shell gaat een substantieel deel van haar ict uitbesteden om kosten te besparen. Door de maatregel komen mogelijk duizenden banen op de tocht te staan.
Een woordvoerster van Shell bevestigt dat het bedrijf momenteel onderhandelingen voert met drie outsource-partijen. In maart 2008 worden de contracten getekend.
Een werknemer van Shell verklaarde tegenover RoyalDutchShellPlc.com, een website die protesteert tegen Shell, dat 3.200 banen op het spel staan, maar de woordvoerster kon dat aantal niet bevestigen.
30 december 2007
(Belga) De Engels-Nederlandse oliegigant Shell is van plan duizenden werknemers te ontslaan. Het bedrijf zou een belangrijk deel van zijn informaticadiensten uitbesteden. Dat blijkt uit interne documenten die zondag zijn gelekt op internet.
In een mail van 19 december spreekt Goh Swee Chen, de verantwoordelijke voor de informaticainfrastructuur van de oliegroep, van een saneringsplan dat “belangrijk” zal zijn en dat zou kunnen leiden tot een periode van onzekerheid. Op de site royaldutchshellplc.com, die dienst doet als forum voor ontevreden Shell-werknemers, is sprake van duizenden ontslagen. Op de site zegt een anonieme werknemer van Shell dat de sanering 3.200 van de 3.600 werknemers van de IT-afdeling kan treffen. Een woordvoerder van Shell wilde zondag niet reageren op de berichten, maar bevestigde wel dat de oliegroep een reorganisatie doorvoert om de kosten te beperken. Bij Shell werken in totaal 108.000 mensen, van wie 3.000 op de zetel in Londen. (LIM)
Manchester Evening News: Fears for Shell
30/12/2007
THERE were fears today that oil giant Shell was preparing to shed around 3,200 jobs in the latest cost-cutting move by the industry.
The company has told staff that it is planning to outsource “a substantial part” of its IT infrastructure services division, believed to comprise a total of 3,600 staff.
Detailed consultations with workers affected start early in the New Year, with a start date for the new arrangements planned for July 1.
By Elaine Moore
Published: December 30 2007 21:43 | Last updated: December 30 2007 21:43
The Financial Services Authority levied less in fines this year than in the past six years, in spite of claiming that it intended to take a more robust approach to policing the financial services industry.
Fines totalled £5.3m in 2007, compared with £13.3m in 2006.
The average fine levied, £232,000, was also less than half the average given in the previous year.
However, the number of fines handed out, 23, was not significantly below the number given last year, 28.
MSN News: Fears for jobs at oil giant Shell
pa.press.net – 30.12.2007 15:26
There are fears that oil giant Shell is preparing to shed around 3,200 jobs in the latest cost-cutting move by the industry.
The company has told staff it is planning to outsource “a substantial part” of its IT infrastructure services division, believed to comprise a total of 3,600 staff.
Detailed consultations with workers affected begin early in the new year, with a start date for the new arrangements planned for July 1.
30 December 2007
LONDON (Thomson Financial) – Royal Dutch Shell is to shed thousands of jobs in a bid to cut costs and simplify its structure, the Sunday Telegraph reported.
Shell is looking to agree one of the largest-ever outsourcing deals in the next couple of months and plans to reorganise other departments including finance operations, the newspaper said.
The biggest change will be in the information technology division, where about 3,600 staff may be affected by a plan to farm out operations to three companies, the report claimed, citing a leaked internal email.
December 30th, 2007
Big Mamma seems to be trying to rewrite history. This will not be the biggest reduction in staff. What happened in the early 90’s was a bloodbath that left thousands of “former” employees very disgruntled to say the least. I made it thru that only to be the victim of a reduction in staff in 2001. My section was declared redundant and the efforts of the company to place the staff was only lip service.
Granted it was only a small group of people but those of us that were declared redundant were given little help in finding positions within the company or anywhere else.
Shell profits have been under pressure in recent quarters
Sunday, 30 December 2007, 14:41 GMT
Anglo-Dutch oil company Shell has said it is considering the position of a number of workers as part of a long-running review of its operations.
The comments come after reports that the company was looking at offshoring as many as 3,600 posts in its information technology (IT) division.
Shell said it was in talks with firms over the possible move, and was also thinking about other changes.
It added that no decision had yet been made, though that would happen in 2008.
By John Donovan
On 19 December 2007 we received an email from a Shell insider attaching an email sent on behalf of a Shell IT Vice President earlier the same day.
The leak led to further correspondence with the same insider and to related correspondence with Michael Brandjes, the Company Secretary and General Counsel Corporate of Royal Dutch Shell Plc. Mr Brandjes is in our view one of the good guys at Shell. He responds to our emails even though Shell executives ignore them. We have found him to be unfailingly courteous and efficient. He has also acted in a decent and helpful way to third parties in certain matters of which we are aware.
By Russell Hotten
Last Updated: 11:21pm GMT 29/12/2007
Royal Dutch Shell is to shed thousands of jobs as Europe’s largest oil company joins rival BP in trying to cut costs and simplify its structure. Shell is looking to agree one of the largest ever outsourcing deals in the next couple of months, and plans to reorganise other departments, including finance operations.
The company has said previously that it wants to cut costs, but the scale of some of the proposed changes has surprised insiders and led to the leaking of information to an anti-Shell website by disillusioned staff. The biggest change will be in the information technology division, where around 3,600 staff may be affected by a plan to farm out operations to three companies.
Published 29 December 2007
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John
I write this note to you as a very concerned ‘insider’. It appears Shell has not learned from the past and now is embarking on yet another stepchange (note very carefully the word change, not improvement) by getting rid of the bulk of IT people. They are also divesting several producing fields. (Those are riskfree things that need to be milked. It is like a farmer selling his farm whereas he really should sell the produce!) Is Shell perhaps preparing itself for a take-over by Gazprom?
December 29, 2007
DES MOINES, Iowa — The new federal energy bill may be a big step in the right direction for global warming, but it won’t ease the current supply worries that have led to high gas prices, Shell Oil chief John Hofmeister told Iowans recently.
“Nobody seems to focus on the short-term,” Hofmeister told The Gazette in a telephone interview during a visit last week to Des Moines, where he met with state energy officials and addressed a local Rotary gathering.
Published: Saturday, 29 December, 2007, 02:17 AM Doha Time
By Jun Yang and Gurdeep Singh
SINGAPORE: Major Pakistan oil, gas and power projects are clearly at risk in the wake of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto’s assassination. Analysts warn prolonged instability could jeopardise the country’s ability to meet future energy needs.
Foreign companies such as Tullow Oil and Premier Oil are operating in Pakistan; Royal Dutch Shell and Total SA are reportedly among majors vying to invest in a multibillion dollar liquefied natural gas project in Karachi.
By Angela Hill
Friday December 28, 2007
The Council of the Municipal District of Pincher Creek was all ears on Dec. 11, when Kevin May presented Shell Waterton’s optimization plan.
Shell’s plan is to transform its Waterton gas plant south of Pincher Creek into a smaller, more efficient facility.
“By reducing the amount of fuel gas use, in turn we will decrease the greenhouse gas emissions,” pointed out May, manager of Shell’s Waterton optimization project.
The gas plant, which is about 30 kilometres south of Pincher Creek, is currently licensed to produce 13.3 million cubic metres of raw gas daily. The products produced from the raw gas are sales gas (methane), natural gas liquids (propane, butane and ethane), condensate and sulphur.
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