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June 12th, 2005:

Shareholders in last-ditch fight with Shell

THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH: Shareholders in last-ditch fight with Shell

12 June 2005

BY PAUL FARROW

THE ASSOCIATION of Private Client Investment Managers and Stockbrokers is to meet Shell, the oil giant, next week in a last-ditch attempt to save Royal Dutch shareholders from capital gains tax bills running into thousands of pounds.

Apcims has received more than 300 calls and letters from angry shareholders since it emerged two weeks ago that they would be saddled with huge CGT bills when the

planned merger of Royal Dutch and Shell Transport & Trading goes ahead on July 20. read more

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Manila Bulletin (Philippines): Shell to open first CNG facility

Manila Bulletin (Philippines): Shell to open first CNG facility

Sunday 12 June 2005

Pilipinas Shell Petroleum Corp. is scheduled to open today the country’s first ever compressed natural gas (CNG) mother refuelling station in Tabangao, Batangas and its daughter station.

The facility is expected to benefit an initial fleet of 200 CNG-fed public utility buses.

The project is Shell’s response to clamor for cheaper alternative fuel which is also environment friendly. It means to supply public transport buses with natural gas produced by the Malampaya Deep Water Gas-to-Power project offshore under the government’s Natural Gas Vehicle Program for Public Transport (NGVPPT). read more

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Farmers try to halt Mayo gas pipeline

THE SUNDAY TIMES (UK): Farmers try to halt Mayo gas pipeline

June 12, 2005

Scott Millar

MAYO farmers have formed an unusual alliance with left-wing activists in a bid to obstruct the construction of Shell’s Corrib gas pipeline.

The landowners received training in protest tactics a month ago from the veteran demonstrators, who are also opposed to the project on environmental grounds.

Work on the pipeline, which will consist of 10 kilometres overground and another 70 kilometres offshore, had been due to start this weekend but was stopped by members of the local community. Seven farmers whose land is subject to a compulsory purchase order say they would rather go to jail than hand over their land. read more

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High oil prices ‘for 20 years’

THE SUNDAY TIMES: High oil prices ‘for 20 years’

June 12, 2005

By Dan Box

THE price of oil could remain above $40 a barrel for the next 20 years, according to senior executives at Shell.

This bold prediction is likely to cause surprise, with analysts predicting that if it is accepted by the industry it could lead to a fresh wave of mergers between oil companies.

“The longer-term signal is one of clearly increasing prices,” said Albert Bressand, a vice-president of Shell and author of the oil giant’s global scenarios report, published last week and long seen as authoritative in the industry. “We are at about $50 a barrel today. What we describe in the scenarios is coherent with the long- term price being in the $30-$40 range.” read more

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The Observer: Overweight in London? How to slim down

The Observer: Overweight in London? How to slim down

Heather Connon

Sunday June 12, 2005

Being overweight is not just a worry for idle teenagers guzzling junk food – it’s also an issue that should concern investors. London’s indices have become alarmingly top heavy: a decade ago, the top five stocks represented just 15.3 per cent of the All-Share index and the largest company accounted for 3.5 per cent. When Royal Dutch Shell moves its full listing to London in the summer, the weighting of the top 10 will have jumped to more than 41 per cent, while the biggest – oil giant BP – will represent more than 8 per cent of the index on its own. read more

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Shell’s suit: Shell chief upbeat about future

THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH: Shell’s suit: Shell chief upbeat about future

Sunday 12 June 2005

Shell unveiled the ghastly concept of the “Trilemma Triangle” last week, a bit of pseudo-intellectual property developed by an internal team that does little else but generate socio-economic babble. In other words, the business is not yet quite back to basics.

That said, the ambition of Jeroen van der Veer – Shell’s chief executive, whom I saw last week – is more transparent. It is captured in four easy-to-understand words: “More Upstream, Profitable Downstream (MUPD)”. read more

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Shell chief defiantly upbeat about future of the oil sector

THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH: Shell chief defiantly upbeat about future of the oil sector

By Sylvia Pfeifer (Filed: 12/06/2005)

Jeroen van der Veer, the chief executive of Royal Dutch/Shell, the oil giant, will launch a robust defence of the future prospects of the industry tomorrow, arguing that ‘this is most definitely not a sunset industry’.

In a speech to be delivered in Asia, van der Veer will argue that the business prospects for the industry are good and that “energy will remain one of the most important and dynamic industrial sectors”.

“The world will need much more energy, and most will come from fossil fuels for the foreseeable future. Demand is likely to increase considerably more over the first three decades of this century than it did over the previous 30 years,” van der Veer will say. read more

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