The Times
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After being knocked off the top spot as Europes largest oil and gas producer by market capitalisation this week, Shell executives did not get much time to lick their wounds.
The Anglo-Dutch companys shares continued their slide yesterday amid talk that it had been guiding analysts to reduce their fourth-quarter earnings forecasts by about 20 per cent. A handful of downgrades served only to fuel that fire.
One man feeling the pain more than most will be Simon Henry (right), Royal Dutch Shell groups chief financial officer, whose first year in the role has been anything but smooth, with falling demand continuing to pummel the oil industry.