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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  Mondaq.com: Shell Discovers The Perils Of Plagiarism
David Greer, Shell Deputy Chief Executive of the $22 billion Sakhalin-2 project in Russia was recently exposed as a plagiarist after circulating a motivational memo containing inspirational passages borrowed from a speech made by U.S. General George S Patton over 60 years ago.    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  ShellNew.net: Article by former Shell Executive, Paddy Briggs: Royal Dutch Shell AGM 15th May 2007
Twinkly old Mark Moody-Stuart would wiggle his eyebrows in astonishment when anyone suggested impropriety and Phil Watts would glower down at us contemptuously as if we were all particularly inattentive students at his bible class. We suspected that deep down they were really, all of them, only just on the right side (or the wrong side in Watts case) of being mendacious bastards – but at least they were our bastards!   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  SeeItReal.com: Shell Loses Fifty to a Hundred Billion or so
Mr Mitvol is quoted as saying: “Who will take Sakhalin Energy to court? I will take them. I have documents proving that the Sakhalin Energy management was aware that the company violated technical standards, but carried on trying to meet project deadlines and refused to stop work. I am confident of winning my case in Stockholm. What documents are these? Where are they from? I have email correspondence between executives in Sakhalin Energy management from 2002. I received these letters from John Donovan, owner of the anti-Shell website www.royaldutchshellplc.com.” - for more info go to Wikipedia   more »
View Article  ShellNews.net: Aborted Sunday Times article claiming this website cost Shell $22 billion
The journalists’ main interest was in our role in Shell’s humiliation over the Sakhalin2 project. He thought that it was remarkable that a $2 a week website had pulled the rug out from under Shell on the multibillion dollar project, the biggest of its kind in the world. He had been in contact with the office of Oleg Mitvol to arrange an interview. He also spoke to at least one other important source.   more »
View Article  The Wall Street Journal: Shell’s Safety Problem: ‘I am suspicious of you Mr. Donovan…’
BP has been criticized for its safety standards since the deadly Texas City refinery explosion in 2005. But Royal Dutch Shell was a far more dangerous company to work for in the past two years.   more »
View Article  ROYAL DUTCH SHELL GROUP: CONTINGENT LIABILITIES AND LEGAL PROCEEDINGS
Included in legal provisions at December 31, 2006 is $0.5 billion in respect of a class action for alleged losses relating to the 2004 recategorisation of certain hydrocarbon reserves (see Note 32).   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  Do you have grounds to sue Shell? Have you, your firm or family been cheated or injured by Shell?
The owners of this website have been participants in countless proceedings with Shell stretching back to 1993. We are currently involved in proceedings brought by EIGHT companies within the Royal Dutch Shell Group. A High Court hearing took place on 8 February 2007. The next is scheduled for 7 August 2007.    more »
View Article  ShellNews.net: leaked Shell email spells trouble for Irina Gordiyenko
Shell is desperately trying to find new specialist staff because management made a monumental blunder several years ago by getting rid of many highly experienced people during the so called “transformation” process instituted by the then Shell Group Chairman, Sir Mark Moody-Stuart.    more »
View Article  GRIPING AND GRINNING: REPUTATION NETWORKS START WITH ONE
I want to share another story. According to this article, a single site run by a man and his octagenarian father in the UK has cost the petro-giant Shell billions of dollars. And it all started with a gripe.   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  BUSINESS NEW EUROPE: Shell gets stuck in a Sakhalin blog-mire
Asked by a journalist from PetroleumArgus, a trade magazine, who his sources were for the environmental abuse charges he has laid against the Sakhalin Energy consortium developing a liquefied natural gas (LNG) project on the island, Oleg Mitvol, deputy head of Russia’s environmental watchdog Rosprirodnadzor, said he had “email correspondence between executives in Sakhalin Energy management from 2002.” The kompromat, or compromising material, had come from Donovan, owner of the anti-Shell website www.royaldutchshellplc.com, Mitvol said.   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: Argus FSU Energy series of important Sakhalin II articles
EXTRACT FROM MITVOL INTERVIEW: I have email correspondence between executives in Sakhalin Energy management from 2002. I received these letters from John Donovan, owner of the anti-Shell website www.royaldutchshellplc. com. I received them on 19 October and forwarded them to Sakhalin Energy with a request for an official reply. But I have not received any reply so far. I presume that they are in shock.   more »
View Article  ShellNews.net: Email from John Donovan to The European Bank for Reconstruction & Development: Sakhalin II
I wish to officially draw to your attention the existence of Shell internal correspondence in 2002 between senior Shell managers including the technical director of Sakhalin Energy which place a question mark over important safety and environmental issues and the possibility of a cover-up.   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: I supplied the evidence Mitvol is using against Sakhalin Energy in $10 Billion Claim
We understand that some Sakhalin Energy employees have expressed concern over spying activity thought to be carried out by Shell “spooks”. It appears that Shell may be trying to expose sources of leaked Shell internal information we have been receiving. (We have been able to publish email from Shell CEO Jeroen van der Veer within hours of it being sent). In view of the news from Oleg Mitvol that Russian “special services” are also active, events are getting more interesting by the day.   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  MosNews: Russian Audit Chamber Suggests Shell Sign a New Deal to Complement Existing PSA

Posted by Royal Dutch Shell Plc.com at November 1st, 2006

Created: 01.11.2006 12:19 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 13:36 MSK,

Royal ...   more »

View Article  Itar-Tass: Russia Audit Chamber reveals violations in Sakhalin-2 project

30.10.2006, 16.20
 
MOSCOW, October 30 (Itar-Tass) - Checks of the Sakhalin-2 project carried out by the Russian Audit Chamber ...   more »

View Article  The Wall Street Journal: Top Engineer at BP Oil Venture Is Found Shot Dead in Siberia

By GREG WALTERS
October 3, 2006; Page A6

MOSCOW — A top technician at an affiliate of BP PLC’s Russian ...   more »

View Article  RIA Novosti: TNK-BP subsidiary head found shot dead in Siberia-1 (*Shell Sakhalin II executives may wish to take note)

14:32 | 02/ 10/ 2006
 
IRKUTSK, October 2 (RIA Novosti) - A top manager with Rusia Petroleum [RTS: PTRL], ...   more »

View Article  The Guardian: Russian oil grab ‘puts western supplies at risk: only a matter of time before BP or Shell faces bid from Gazprom…

Russian oil grab ‘puts western supplies at risk’: BP and Shell face bids, says energy expert New UN body may ...   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  Ogoni author Ben Wuloo Ikari argues that Shell should be classified as a terrorist organisation

Introduction by Alfred Donovan.

Robert Aouad, a guest columnist in a U.S. College publication, recently took issue with a suggestion that ...   more »

View Article  The Times: Putin takes hard line on Shell Sakhalin dispute… ominious twist last night

September 28, 2006
From Tony Halpin in Moscow
 
RUSSIA’S dispute with Shell over the future of the Sakhalin-2 project ...   more »

View Article  RosBusinessConsulting: ecological damage from Sakhalin-2 may exceed $50bn

Estimated damages from Sakhalin-2 project announced

RBC, 27.09.2006, Moscow 16:37:57.

The ecological damage from the Sakhalin-2 project may exceed $50bn, ...   more »

View Article  Lloyds List: Seeing red over Russian policy

EXTRACT: Russia wants to secure more control over its natural resources through taxation, deceit, bullyboy tactics, cunning and acquisitions. It ...   more »

View Article  The Guardian: Shell hailed troubled gas project as world model

Terry Macalister and Rob Evans
Wednesday September 27, 2006

Shell told the British government earlier this year that the now ...   more »

View Article  The Wall Street Journal: Russia Softens Tone Regarding Sakhalin Project

By GREGORY L. WHITE
September 27, 2006

MOSCOW — Taking a more conciliatory tone with one of the world’s largest ...   more »

View Article  SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE: Chavez putting up a fight to get even bigger stake in oil Venezuela’s rich reserves give it bargaining power

By ROBERT COLLIER
Tuesday, September 26, 2006

El Tigre, Venezuela — On the hot, shrub-covered plains around this dusty, dingy ...   more »

View Article  Email to Jeroen van der Veer: Resolving the Sakhalin II impasse

25 September 2006

Dear Mr Van der Veer

I received an email from a Shell insider this morning containing a ...   more »

View Article  Deseret Morning News: Battle over oil (*the Ogoni of Utah?)

EXTRACTS: During the litigation, lawyers have found corruption, fraud, horrible mismanagement and gaping holes in the accounting system by which ...   more »

View Article  Australasian Investment Review: Gas/Coal to Oil

EXTRACT: The Victorian Government has just given the greenlight to a 50-year mining licence for a $5 billion joint project ...   more »

View Article  The Observer: Moscow makes its power play

Last week, Russia threatened to scrap licences granted to Western companies in a bid to regain control of its energy ...   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  AFP: Japanese firms talking to Russia over Sakhalin-2

AFP , TOKYO
Friday, Sep 22, 2006,Page 10

Japanese stakeholders in the huge Sakhalin-2 energy project said yesterday they will ...   more »

View Article  RIA Novosti (Moscow): Sakhalin 2 is under a legal siege
Sakhalin 2 may be stopped in its tracks - by the courts   more »
View Article  The Orange County Register: Shell Oil president speaks in Irvine
IRVINE – Shell Oil Co.President John Hofmeister brought his 50-city U.S. tour to Orange County on Wednesday night, part of an effort to address what he called “a communication shortcoming with the American people.”   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  The Wall Street Journal: Exxon, Shell Are Pressed To Review Russia Pacts
MOSCOW — A pair of multibillion-dollar energy projects in Russia led by Exxon Mobil Corp. and Royal Dutch Shell PLC have encountered unprecedented regulatory pressure in recent weeks, amid rising complaints by officials here that the deals are unfavorable to Russia.    more »
View Article  Itar-Tass: Russia’s Lavrov to present energy diplomacy at conference

MOSCOW, September 14 (Itar-Tass) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will speak at the 10th international conference Oil and Gas ...   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  TheEdgeDaily (Malaysia): Shell Malaysia’s LCOT receives top prize from MSOSH

Shell Malaysia received multiple awards at the recent Malaysian Society for Occupational Safety and Health (MSOSH) awards presentation ceremony under ...   more »

View Article  Sad but true “Live Chat” about Royal Dutch Shell on Royal Dutch Shell Plc .com

The following were some of the postings made yesterday on the “Live Chat” facility of our sister website: www.royaldutchshellplc.com

8027: you ...   more »

View Article  Sakhalin II: The Russians play hard ball with Royal Dutch Shell

By John Donovan

As the second largest oil company in the world, Royal Dutch Shell is used to dealing from ...   more »

View Article  Financial Express (India): Russia won’t let Exxon get anywhere near Sakhalin
Exxon Mobil, the world’s biggest oil company, is the latest international energy producer targeted in President Vladimir Putin’s campaign to increase government control of the country’s petroleum wealth. On Wednesday, Russia sued to halt Royal Dutch Shell Plc’s $20 billion oil and gas development, also located near Sakhalin Island. “The Putin government is trying to squeeze more concessions out of Exxon just like they are doing with Shell,”...   more »
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