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Royal Dutch Shell News Roundup 25 August 2014

RUSSIA

Jeroen van der Veer, the former Royal Dutch Shell CEO who evaded responsibility for his role in the cover-up of the Shell reserves fraud, claims that the sanctions against Russia are not working and are counter-productive. This analysis comes from the man who badly misjudged the Putin regime in 2006 and as a result, ended up meekly surrendering Shell’s majority stake in the Sakhalin 2 project. 

UK

The British government has just introduced a rule requiring oil, gas and mining companies registered in the UK to disclose all payments made to the governments of countries in which they operate. The new rule, which comes into force in 2015, is designed to result in greater transparency, something alien to oil companies such as Shell. Problems may arise in relation to Nigeria where Shell has a decades long history of corruption involving a succession of odious regimes.

AUSTRALIA

Woodside Petroleum boss Peter Coleman has indicated that Woodside will not help Shell reduce its stake in the company. Coleman says there is no plan B and the next move is up to Shell. A recent buyback plan embarrassingly failed to receive shareholder approval so Shell is stuck with its unwanted reduced stake in Woodside. And Woodside is stuck with Shell.

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