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View Article  UpstreamOnline: ‘Top Shell man quits Kashagan’
A Shell employee told Donovan by email that Stubbs was one of an "elite band of great project management heroes" who had recently left Shell, leaving the company with a lack of talent to deliver on the big projects it is relying on for growth.    more »
View Article  www.oneworldtrust.org: Accountability in Action: July 2007 Newsletter: Issue No 15
Donovan “wanted the site to become a magnet for people who had a problem with the company.”2 The site has not only cost Shell billions of dollars in Russia, but Prospect Magazine reports that the Ogoni tribe of Nigeria also use the website to spread information about Shell’s activities in the Niger Delta, and that even Shell insiders unhappy with the company use it.3   more »
View Article  ShellNews.net: more Sakhalin-2 insider allegations and an astonishing leaked email purportedly from David Greer
The use of coercion against SEIC employees to persuade/force them to agree a timetable for a pipeline completion date of December 2007. The information reveals the importance of the date in question, why it is unlikely to be achieved, and the huge financial potential consequences.    more »
View Article  The Moscow Times: Sakhalin Energy's Greer Steps Down
A motivational e-mail written by Greer to staff working on the project, originally leaked to an anti-Shell web site, Royaldutchshellplc.com, was the subject of a front-page story in the Financial Times earlier this month.   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  The Moscow Times: Sakhalin Pep Talk From 'Old Blood and Guts'
a leaked e-mail from a top Sakhalin Energy executive, exhorting his pipeline engineers in the style of U.S. General George Patton, has prompted one international newspaper to ask its readers, "Is this the worst motivational memo ever?"   more »
View Article  ShellNews.net: Are these astonishing allegations about the Sakhalin-2 project true or false?
The entire information – every single word published herein, has been seen in advance by the legal department of Royal Dutch Shell. Shell General Counsel have been given the opportunity to identify any incorrect information in relation to basic elements, for example whether any of the contractor or other names stated as being associated with the Sakhalin-2 project is untrue. We invited them to bring any categorically false information to our attention.    more »
View Article  ShellNews.net: "Horrific" Shell fatality statistics for January and February 2007
This appears to be further concrete proof that the fears of Bill Campbell, the former Group Auditor of Shell International, about a ruthless Shell senior management which puts production (and profits) before the safety of Shell workers, are well founded.   more »
View Article  In the pipeline: ‘horrific’ fatality statistics at Shell for Jan/Feb 2007?
“throughout Shell those fatality numbers are provoking some serious soul searching – regrettably there are always some fatalities, but these numbers are horrific. There are plenty of people who see a connection between Brinded’s and Botts’ style of management and the fatalities. Three years ago, Botts promised a 30% increase in production with a 30% reduction in costs by 2007. Instead, there has been a 30% increase in costs with a 30% reduction in production…..”   more »
View Article  Brent Bravo unlawful deaths scandal returns to haunt Royal Dutch Shell
On 1 March 2007 I sent an email to Terry Macalister at The Guardian newspaper bringing his attention to developments relating to Shell’s safety record in its North Sea operations. On 5 March, The Guardian newspaper published an article under the headline: “Shell safety record in North Sea takes a hammering”.   more »
View Article  Shell CEO Letter of Censure to Malcolm Brinded, Executive Director of Shell EP
While it seemed to the outside world that the repercussions of the Brent Bravo scandal had subsided, with media focus switched to BP’s troubles, Shell has in fact been trying to keep a lid on sensitive information emerging relating to the untimely deaths of innocent Brent Bravo workers. Sensitive because the machinations personally involve Shell CEO Jeroen van der Veer and Malcolm Brinded, the Executive Director of Shell EP. As will become clear, Brinded had a vested interest in trying to cover-up past events.    more »
View Article  Correspondence with Shell General Counsel Richard Wiseman on authenticity of leaked Shell top secret contingency plans
We receive a fairly constant flow from Shell insiders of leaked confidential and often highly sensitive Royal Dutch Shell information, including emails, documents, reports and internal presentations. We have on occasion published a Shell internal email from Shell CEO Jeroen van der Veer on the very day that he sent it.    more »
View Article  ShellNews.net: Shell Sakhalin II debate rages on
Shame on you Donovans! You really should check out your facts and sources before you publish such diatribe as your article that you foolishly purport to be label the insider story on Sakhalin. You have no clue what you are talking about which only serves to further worsen the already sad stature of this very pathetic and misguided website   more »
View Article  Investing in Russia: How Shell played Russian roulette and lost
Published below is a statement received from Mr Keith Ruddock, General Counsel Exploration and Production, Shell International B.V. It relates to the article herein: “The insider story of Shell’s Sakhalin II debacle”.   more »
View Article  ShellNews.net: EMAIL TO THE BORNEO BULLETIN: NEWS BLACKOUT ON ROYAL DUTCH SHELL GROUP vs. Dr JOHN HUONG
Is Malaysia a Police State? Why has there been no reporting of this important unprecedented defamation case involving the issuing of multiple injunctions, contempt of court proceedings, threats of imprisonment etc. against Dr Huong? I have lost count of the High Court hearings on the case. They have also been countless legal documents filed with the High Court of Malaya in KL, most of which are in the public domain. Yet not one word about these matters has been reported in the Malaysian media.    more »
View Article  ShellNews.net: Financial Times guest columnist (and Royal Dutch Shell consultant) David Bowen replies to our criticism
You are clearly using Wikipedia as assiduously as you used Tell Shell Forum, and in your role as thorn in the flesh of one company, you are clearly highly effective.    more »
View Article  ShellNews.net: Royal Dutch Shell reputation issues
I am concerned that the actions of Shell management in practice are not in line with your stated business principles of honesty, integrity and transparency in all of Shell’s dealings. I fear that there is a vast gap between what amounts to empty PR pledges, compared with hard commercial reality.   more »
View Article  Shell Whistleblowers Helpline (perhaps a bit late in the light of recent events)
With news of Shell being fined $138 million by the EU for masterminding an illegal cartel, this seems like an appropriate time to write an article about the introduction of the “Shell Global Helpline”.    more »
View Article  ShellNews.net: Shell General Counsel Richard Wiseman: Practising what you preach
Our interpretation was that far from being “unmoved” by our activities, as Mr Wiseman claimed in one of his amusing emails to us, in fact certain members of Shell management collectively suffer from diarrhoea in reaction to our initiatives, to put it tactfully.   more »
View Article  ShellNews.net: When is Shell going to sue former Shell International Group Auditor Bill Campbell for defamation?
Mr Campbell says that ESDV leak-off tests were purposely falsified, not once but many times. He further alleges that the inaction of the relevant Asset Manager, the General Manager, the Oil Director and the Shell Expro Managing Director in 1999 (Malcolm Brinded), contributed in some part to the unlawful killing of two persons on Brent Bravo in September 2003.    more »
View Article  ShellNews.net: Shell defamation action against Dr John Huong: An Open Offer to Shell
This was followed by a string of other scandals: the Corrib debacle in Ireland (where Shell had five people jailed), the sale of tainted gasoline, fictitious trading, the Brent Bravo tragedy, a $10 BILLION cost overrun on the Sakhalin 2 white elephant project in Russia and the continuing crimes by Shell against Nigerian nationals in the obscene plunder and pollution of Nigeria. As a Shell insider pointed out to me yesterday, there is a common denominator in most of these scandals: his name is Malcolm Brinded.    more »
View Article  ShellNews.net: A Shell insiders “Live Chat” posting On the Shell/NAM Warffum deaths (updated)
On the Warffum deaths: during the incident all the directors and their poodles were having one of many conferences in Houston. When the news broke, nobody knew what to do and who should take charge. So all the bosses left the conference and went home. A clear sign of blind panic and a malfunctioning organisation. I work for Shell and witnessed all this from very close.    more »
View Article  Shell Insider Letter with leaked Jeroen van der Veer Brent Scandal BS Email
Mr van der Veer is a Defendant in a global class action lawsuit alleging fraud by in respect of the oil reserves scandal. Shell has already settled for a multimillion dollar sum another lawsuit brought on similar grounds against Shell and named directors, including him and Malcolm Brinded. Mr van der Veer has already made admissions in regards to the scandal. So much for the BS about honesty and integrity.   more »
View Article  The Times: Unions call for manslaughter law after Shell deaths inquiry
Concern about North Sea safety and the condition of rusting platforms grew last month when Bill Campbell, a former Shell engineer, revealed details of a platform safety maintenance review done in 1999 on Brent Bravo. His audit team found widespread violations of safety procedures and alleged falsification of records.    more »
View Article  ShellNews.net: Shell Brent Scandal Fatal Accident Report
“During the course of the inquiry it became apparent that evidence relating to the condition of certain valves on the platform might be relevant to the cause of the deaths of the two men, or have contributed to the incident which resulted in their deaths. However certain evidence, such as the possible consequences to the structure of the platform, and its crew, of the ignition of the vapour within the utility shaft, while of concern to some of the parties and no doubt of importance to the offshore oil industry and those who work in it, was, in my opinion, beyond the scope of the 1976 Act and more appropriate for consideration at an inquiry of a more general nature.”    more »
View Article  Royal Dutch Shell Plc .com: “Live chat” comments on Shell Brent Scandal
“A number of ESDV’s had their leak-off test results falsified which may be a criminal offence and which coincidentally was exactly the same finding as in 1999″   more »
View Article  ShellNews.net: Statement by Bill Campbell: The Shell Brent Scandal: His detailed response to recent comments by Shell
We thought it important to put the above documents into the public domain as a matter of urgency. They relate to the SHELL BRENT SCANDAL. A related news story will be published within the next 24 hours.    more »
View Article  ShellNews.net: Shell North Sea Management Scandal between 1999 and 2003: Article by a “Shell Insider”
Shell clearly failed in its duty to operate its North Sea Assets according to the approved Safety Case. Shell has attempted to refute the contents of its own internal audits driven by the same “Bandits” who failed to take action when they should have done in 1999. This group are despicable and dangerous men requiring external pressures to ensure they are brought to justice thus exposing them to the full force of the Law together with Public opinion not forgetting the wrath of the Shareholders influence.   more »
View Article  Upstreamonline: Shell in the safety firing line (”new crisis… potentially far more serious than the reserves issue”)
<strong>SHELL is facing a major new top management scandal following startling disclosures of how it persistently ignored critical safety warnings on its UK flagship Brent field in the North Sea by running its four platforms “flat out” while allegedly violating operating procedures, falsifying maintenance records and corruptly failing to maintain safety critical equipment.<strong>   more »
View Article  Royal Dutch Shell Plc .com: Shell faces accusations of safety scandal - report
Forbes/AFX: Royal Dutch Shell PLC is facing calls by North Sea oil and gas unions for a government inquiry into its safety record after an internal audit found widespread violations of safety procedures and the alleged falsification of compliance documents, according to the Times.   more »
View Article  Royal Dutch Shell Plc .com: Oil giant is accused of putting targets first and safety second
Daily Mail: OIL giant Shell ignored safety warnings on its key Brent Held in the North Sea, according to one of its former auditors. He claims that over many years,’ top executives put safety second to meeting output targets.   more »
View Article  Royal Dutch Shell Plc.com: Shell accused of safety scandal
Monsters and Critics.com: Both the Times and the Guardian quote Bill Campbell, an ex-engineer for Shell who performed an audit of the company’s safety features in 1999, as claiming that senior Shell managers summed health and safety policy as the acronym TFA – Touch F*** All. He alleges that the TFA philosophy encouraged a culture of non-compliance with health and safety regulations, which were covered up by the wilful falsification of regulatory documents relating to safety.   more »
View Article  Royal Dutch Shell Plc .com: Shell report highlighted lax safety standards
The Times: An internal presentation of the PSMR report cited alarming instances of management failure: “Violations included falsification of maintenance records for safety critical equipment” and “Violations of operating procedures were witnessed during the audits; these violations were in one case known and accepted by the asset manager. Many violations are known about by the workforce.”    more »
View Article  Royal Dutch Shell Plc .com: Unions call for inquiry into safety at Shell
The Times: NORTH SEA oil and gas unions are calling for a government investigation into Shell’s North Sea safety record after revelations that an internal audit found widespread violations of safety procedures and the alleged falsification of compliance documents.   more »
View Article  ShellNews.net: Royal Dutch Shell unsuccessful attempt to thwart Ogoni U.S. Class Action
The disgraced former Group Chairman of Shell, Sir Philip Watts, and his equally ruthless predecessor, Sir Mark Moody-Stuart, have already given answers under oath in London in reply to questions put by US attorneys acting for the plaintiffs.    more »
View Article  Upstreamonline: Directors brought into the loop over claims in audit ("Finlayson... made false statements to the workforce and press)
Campbell claims Finlayson admitted to the investigators that at the time he had given false and misleading information to the workforce, to the press, and wider society.   more »
View Article  Upstreamonline: Goal-widening rather than goal-setting (Brent field maintenance reports had been falsified)
Perhaps most disturbing of all, according to Campbell, it was established during the investigation that when Brent emergency shutdown (ESD) valves failed their leak-off tests, deputy asset manager Graham Birnie had on several occasions arranged for the test records to show "test acceptable, no fault found".   more »
View Article  Upstreamonline: HSE under the spotlight as failings taint regulation system (Shell... "criminally negligent")
Campbell has, over recent years and particularly since the Brent Bravo deaths, asked the OSD to act on the fact Shell was, in his view, "criminally negligent".   more »
View Article  Upstreamonline: Brinded shoots the messenger
SHELL failed to act on Bill Campbell's central recommendation that its top three Brent managers should immediately be suspended from duty following his audit team's devastating internal investigation revealing the negative safety culture across the field. Instead, UK chief Malcolm Brinded removed Campbell from his position as the lead role in the audit review team.   more »
View Article  ShellNews.net: A climate of fear among Shell employees
“We all know that Campbell's statements are correct. Wrong behaviour has been introduced by the top brass who wanted to score points. If you piss off people who have some criticism and reward people who make nice promises, the culture soon changes.”    more »
View Article  ShellNews.net: Latest News on the High Court Battle: EIGHT Royal Dutch Shell companies vs. Dr John Huong : 23 May 2006
My sworn affidavit relating to the draconian defamation action brought by EIGHT Royal Dutch Shell companies against former Shell geologist, Dr John Huong was filed with the High Court of Malaya on 22 May 2006. As a consequence, the affidavit is now in the public domain.    more »
View Article  ShellNews.net: Dr Huong protest continues at Shell Centre: Thursday 4 May 2006
"...another exercise in deception for PR purposes... bearing in mind that Shell has recently issued proceedings against Dr Huong seeking his imprisonment."    more »
View Article  ShellNews.net: Dr Huong campaigners mount protest at Shell Centre in London
LEAFLETS BEING CIRCULATED AT SHELL CENTRE LONDON FROM WEDNESDAY 3rd MAY 2006   more »
View Article  ShellNews.net: EMAIL TO HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH REGARDING SHELL'S PERSECUTION OF DR JOHN HUONG: SENT 27 APRIL 2006
I also sent a copy by email to the General Counsel for Shell International Petroleum Company Limited, Mr Richard Wiseman, who is based in London. I received a brief mischievous email reply on Monday 23rd April.    more »
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