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View Article  Financial Times: Motivational memos must make their message clear
The memo (www.ft.com/shell) is crass, poorly punctuated and most of it wasn't even written by its author, David Greer, deputy chief executive of Royal Dutch Shell's Sakhalin Energy Investment Company. He had lifted the words of General George S. Patton with no attribution, and clumsily adapted them to spur on his team of recalcitrant pipeline engineers.   more »
View Article  Financial Times: Shell's team in 'hell' feels the heat
In a leaked e-mail from David Greer, the deputy chief executive of Sakhalin Energy Investment Company, the consortium running the Sakhalin 2 project, he reveals that he despises cowards and urges his staff to "Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way".   more »
View Article  ShellNews.net: Financial Times offers deepest apologies to Shell insiders about alleged ‘planted questions’
The following Royal Dutch Shell Directors and officials were given advance sight of the article below and have chosen not to comment: Shell CEO Jeroen van der Veer, Malcolm Brinded, Executive Director of Shell EP, Keith Ruddock (General Counsel Shell EP), Richard Wiseman, General Counsel of Shell International Ltd and last, but not least, Jorma Ollila, Chairman of Royal Dutch Shell plc.    more »
View Article  The Wall Street Journal: Updated: Updated: Updated: Shell’s Safety Record is Worse than BP’s
As Energy Roundup has written, BP’s safety record in the past two years — as measured only by the deaths of employees and contractors — hasn’t been as bad as that of rival Royal Dutch Shell, which employs roughly the same number of people.   more »
View Article  Financial Times: Sakhalin-2 fell foul of zealous official

By Arkady Ostrovsky
Published: September 29 2006 03:00 | Last updated: September 29 2006 03:00

What do a Soviet pop ...   more »

View Article  Financial Times: SAKHALIN 2 AWAITS ENVIRONMENTAL STUDY

By Arkady Ostrovsky
Published: September 27 2006 03:00 | Last updated: September 27 2006 03:00

Yuri Trutnev, Russia’s minister for ...   more »

View Article  Financial Times: Moscow reassures Shell over Sakhalin

By Arkady Ostrovsky in Moscow
Published: September 26 2006 01:38 | Last updated: September 26 2006 01:38

Russia had no ...   more »

View Article  Financial Times: Sakhalin-2 casts cloud over Japan energy strategy
Russia's withdrawal of a permit for the $20bn Sakhalin-2 liquefied natural gas project could be a "massive blow" to Tokyo's plans to secure a strategic energy partnership with Russia, a senior Japanese official said.   more »
View Article  Financial Times: Security costs threaten oil contractors in Nigeria (with Royal Dutch Shell Plc statement)

By Dino Mahtani in Lagos
Published: September 16 2006 03:00 | Last updated: September 16 2006 03:00

Oil servicing companies ...   more »

View Article  Financial Times: Royal Dutch Shell Plc on the hunt for big ideas
Shell is on the hunt for small businesses with big ideas on the environment.   more »
View Article  Financial Tmes: BP investors push for spending rise on safety: related Jeroen van der Veer comment

16 September 2006

EXTRACTS: In fact it has been Royal Dutch Shell, BP’s closest European competitor, which has had to ...   more »

View Article  Financial Times: Investors seek BP safety assurances
Big shareholders in BP are seeking assurances from top executives and board members that recent mishaps and failings in the energy group's safety record in the US are not symptoms of a systemic problem.   more »
View Article  Financial Times: Groups fined over bitumen cartel: Shell received by far the biggest fine, €108m

By Tobias Buck in Brussels

Published: September 14 2006 03:00 | Last updated: September 14 2006 03:00

Shell, Total and ...   more »

View Article  Financial Times: Former Shell boss launches EEP to tap into reserves

(Walter van de Vijver right, with his then colleague Jeroen van der Veer in happier times. Both signed Form 20F ...   more »

View Article  Financial Times: Possible return of BP oilfield puts crude at five-month low
The return of the field was one of a series of factors that weighed on oil prices this week. Royal Dutch Shell said its Mars platform in the Gulf of Mexico was at 190,000 barrels of oil equivalent a day, up 20 per cent from its pre-Hurricane Katrina levels last year. The Mars platform was badly damaged by the hurricane, and did not resume production until May.   more »
View Article  Financial Times: Total defies US with vow to continue Iran oil drive

By Carola Hoyos in London
Published: September 8 2006 03:00 | Last updated: September 8 2006 03:00

EXTRACT: Royal Dutch ...   more »

View Article  Financial Times: Paradise lost

EXTRACT: Exxon is not alone. Royal Dutch Shell, the Anglo-Dutch energy group, for example, is investing more than $10bn, withstanding ...   more »

View Article  Financial Times: URALS ENERGY PUTS INVESTORS' MINDS AT REST OVER SHELL'S RUSSIAN OIL SPAT
Urals Energy, an Aim-listed company with interests on Sakhalin Island, in the Russia's far east, dismissed investors' concerns that it could be affected by moves to block the $20bn (£10.6bn) Royal Dutch Shell project, writes John Murray Brown.   more »
View Article  Financial Times: Repsol faces lawsuit over reserves levels

EXTRACT: As a proportion of the total, the reserves cut was bigger than that of Shell, the Anglo-Dutch oil group ...   more »

View Article  Financial Times: Ousted Shell chairman off SEC’s hook
The decision ends the regulator’s two-year investigation into the role Sir Philip played in the reserves scandal that cost the Anglo-Dutch energy group its three most senior executives and £8bn of its market value.   more »
View Article  Financial Times: Shell investors can lay the reserves scandal to rest US watchdog takes no action on Watts
It may seem unsatisfactory that shareholders alone have paid the price for a scandal that had human fingerprints all over it. But a number of top Shell employees have been punished in kind. Some lost their jobs. The 2004 report into the scandal by a US law firm - which laid bare the open war between Sir Philip and Walter van de Vijver, then head of exploration and production, over the reporting of reserves - was damning enough for their reputations.   more »
View Article  Financial Times: BP faces two US probes over trading
BP has revealed that it now faces two investigations into its trading activities in the US, adding to its troubles following the forced shutdown of its Prudhoe Bay field in Alaska.   more »
View Article  Financial Times: BP chief faces court appearance

By Sheila McNulty in Houston

A Texas judge is to decide on Monday whether to compel Lord Browne, BP’s chief ...   more »

View Article  The Financial Times: Nigeria hostage-taking raises fears over fresh attacks on oil facilities
This month alone gunmen have abducted more than a dozen expatriate oil workers in several incidents onshore and offshore, including attacks conducted late on Sunday. Analysts say the spike in abductions of foreign oil workers since June demonstrates a wider breakdown in law and order that could again affect the security of multinational oil facilities.   more »