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Business big shot: Peter Voser

Peter Voser's appointment as chief executive of Shell suggests an effort has been made to draw a line under the murkiest episode in the company's recent history.

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Finance officer Peter Voser takes command at Royal Dutch Shell

The Anglo-Dutch group said that the appointment of Mr Voser came after a review of both internal and external candidates. He saw off two other Shell candidates: Linda Cook, the American head of Shell's Gas and Power business, and Malcolm Brinded, the British head of exploration and production.

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Shell Picks New CEO For Difficult Times

Voser was already one of the potential candidates back in 2007, when van der Veer announced his retirement, but there had been some hope that the head of North America, Linda Cook, would be announced as the company's first female CEO.

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Linda Cook, Shell’s director of gas and power… tipped as future chief executive

When you look at the number of women at entry level, the same numbers are not reflected at the top but we are seeing good progress.” She cites Linda Cook, Shell’s director of gas and power, who is tipped as a future chief executive.

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In Gas Deal, Shell Gains Iraq Presence

raqi Oil Minister Hussein al-Shahristani told reporters Monday the deal with Shell was worth "billions of dollars." Shell declined to put a price on the investment, saying the agreement signed Monday merely set out the commercial principles of the joint venture, which will be 51% owned by Iraq's state-run South Gas Company and 49% by Shell.

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Shell makes move into Iraq

Linda Cook, Shell's head of gas and power, was in Baghdad yesterday to sign a multi-billion dollar agreement to make commercial use of gas currently being flared off in southern Iraq.

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Shell Sets Up First Iraq Office Since the 1970’s

“We are ready to establish a presence,” the official, Linda Cook, executive director of the company’s gas and power unit and a member of the board, said during a news conference in Baghdad’s heavily guarded Green Zone in response to a question

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Shell CEO Jeroen van der Veer has built up an annual pension entitlement of £828,923 a year

The only woman to enter the top 20 pensions list was Linda Cook, Shell's gas and power boss and a frontrunner to take over the oil company as chief executive when Van der Veer retires.

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Linda Zarda Cook the next CEO of Royal Dutch Shell?

Linda Zarda Cook, a Shawnee native who earned a bachelor's degree in petroleum engineering from KU in 1980, ranks 43rd. Now the executive director of gas and power for Royal Dutch Shell, Cook is in the running to become CEO of the company in 2009

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More women stalled on corporate ladder

On Aug. 8 Lynn Elsenhans, who previously worked for Royal Dutch-Shell, will take over from John Drosdick as the CEO of Sunoco, an American oil-refining giant. Meanwhile Shell’s executive director of gas and power, Linda Cook, is said to be one of two internal candidates who could replace the company’s CEO, Jeroen van der Veer, who is due to step down next year. Should she do so, she would become the first female CEO of a major oil producer.

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Comments of former Shell Exec Paddy Briggs on Linda Cook

By Paddy Briggs

There are many who believe that many of Shell’s problems in recent times has come from a growing Americanisation of this historically European company. My experience with senior Americans (Jim Morgan, Steve Miller, Lynn Elsenhans and others) was that they were usually likeable but wholly unsuited to the international character of Shell. The regrettable centralisation of decision making is an American led virus. Linda Cook has no international experience to speak of and she sounds like an archetypal centralising American business apparatchik – the last thing Shell needs just now. read more

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Cook ahead in Shell’s two-horse race

In the minds of some outside the company, Mr Brinded's image is still tarnished by memories of the aftermath of the reserves scandal in 2004.

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Cook leads in Shell’s two-horse race

The withdrawal from the race of Peter Voser, the chief financial officer who has been in talks with UBS, where he is already a director and head of the audit committee, has left Ms Cook and Mr Brinded, the executive director of exploration and production, as the two contenders. Both have strengths, but both also have significant weaknesses.

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Emissions scheme adds to LNG costs, Shell says

Ms Cook, who is based in The Hague, said Australia was an attractive place to develop LNG because of its large resource base and its proximity to large markets in Asia. Shell owns 34 per cent of Woodside and has stakes in several potential LNG projects in Australia including Gorgon, Wheatstone, Browse, Sunrise, Prelude and a Gladstone project.

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Shell urges Rudd to protect LNG

Shell Australia chairman Russell Caplan and the company's global head of gas power Linda Cook said yesterday they would continue to work with the federal Government to ensure the interests of the emissions-intensive, trade-exposed (EITE) sector were catered for in the carbon trading regime.

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Shell sees no problem in dealing with concerns over coal seam gas

Royal Dutch Shell's global head of power and gas, Linda Cook yesterday said the super major was still looking for new CSG openings in Australia to add to its recently added stake in Arrow Energy. "We've had that (CSG) on our radar for some years," Ms Cook said during a visit to Australia.

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