LONDON, May 26 (Reuters) - Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSa.L) said Linda Cook was stepping down as head of the oil group's gas and power division, after she lost out in the race to become Shell's new chief executive.
Linda Cook
Shell gas boss steps down after losing CEO race
Breaking News… Linda Cook, Executive Director of Royal Dutch Shell Gas & Power Resigns…
Linda Cook, Executive Director of Royal Dutch Shell Gas & Power
According to a reliable Shell insider source Linda Cook, Executive Director of Royal Dutch Shell Gas & Power, is leaving Shell in just a few days time, on June 1, 2009, for sudden undisclosed reasons.
The following posting was made on our Shell Blog at 8am UK time…
Linda Cook is stepping down. Peace at last, peace at last. Now there is room for talented women instead of token women. Will she return her stay-on bonus? Very curious what bullshit story she will now come up with!
An Early Start in the Oil Industry
LINDA COOK: Executive director, gas and power, Royal Dutch Shell, the Netherlands
Shell set to clash with investors
RiskMetrics, the international voting agency, advises shareholders to vote Shells pay plan down. And the Association of British Insurers has put an amber top alert out, warning its members of a potential breach of good governance.
Shell pay packages defy poor stock performance
Royal Dutch Shell's senior executives were paid sharply higher remuneration last year, although performance in terms of shareholder returns was the worst of all big western oil companies.
Shell To Pay $10 Bln Of Dividends; Production Not Replaced
Separately, Shell in a 20-F filing said Van Der Veer's total pay, including salary and bonus, was $8.34 million in 2008. Brinded earned $4.14 million, Cook earned $3.87 million, the retiring Rob Routs earned $5.16 million and CFO Peter Voser earned $3.59 million.
Shell workers face pay freeze, layoffs, job cuts and bonus suspension?
By John Donovan
The article in Dutch printed below is from a Shell magazine – Shell World NL of 03.2009 – delivered last week to Shell employees and retirees in the Netherlands. It announces that some staff will not receive a yearly increase in salary – the general salary round is being frozen for some Shell employees because of the deep economic downturn.
I understand this means there is a possibility that similar people working in the same room will get a different pay increase. If correct, then there is concern the pain will not be evenly spread.
Major job cuts at Shell
It has gone from the petty to the ridiculous... How can a company that for the last two years has boasted the largest profits in British history now go on to be cutting sandwiches and fruit... and encouraging their employee's to get their own lunch.
Shell CEO Jeroen van der Veer to receive pension of £828,923 a year
The only woman to enter the top 20 pensions list was Linda Cook, Shell's gas and power boss. Ranked number 83 on the Forbes list of the world's most powerful women recently, she is under 50 but already looking forward to a pension of £513,057.
Shell says Qatar Pearl project tough but on track
"It's a very challenging project, but so far so good," Linda Cook, Shell's executive director for gas and power, told reporters on the sidelines of a conference.
NOVEMBER 2008 EMAIL CORRESPONDENCE WITH RICHARD WISEMAN, CHIEF ETHICS & COMPLIANCE OFFICER, ROYAL DUTCH SHELL PLC
We also have the possibility that the radioactive contamination resulted from the arms which according to a very reliable knowledgeable source, Mr Gerald James, passed through the Earley terminal persuadably as part of Shells involvement in the oil-for-arms trade.
Top job shake-up at Shell in pipeline as new chief eyes costs
Shell has suffered a small exodus of talent in the past six months, including Lynn Laverty Elsenhans, 52, who reported to Mr Routs as head of refining and chemicals and was seen as a strong candidate to succeed him. Losing too many more top executives would be embarrassing.
Shake-up in pipeline as Shell chief eyes costs
Royal Dutch Shell is considering changing the structure of its top executive team, in a move seen by some industry insiders as a precursor to a wider shake-up under Peter Voser, who takes over as chief executive in July.
Overnight email correspondence with Richard Wiseman, Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer of Royal Dutch Shell Plc
Quite frankly, given your track record it is disgraceful that you have been appointed to the position of Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer for Royal Dutch Shell Plc. It must be because Machiavelli is unavailable.
Women to Watch: Linda Cook
The following year was critical for Shell: The company was rocked by scandal when it emerged that it had overstated its energy reserves. There followed a major restructuring, which catapulted Ms. Cook to the top echelons of Shell management.
Shell Names Voser Its CEO
LONDON -- Royal Dutch Shell PLC named Chief Financial Officer Peter Voser as its new boss, rewarding a man who helped restore the Anglo-Dutch company's battered reputation with investors after an accounting scandal in 2004.
Shell names successor to Van der Veer
The oil group, which will announce its third-quarter results today, said the appointment had been made after a "comprehensive assessment and review of internal and external candidates".
Shell chiefs early challenges
Malcolm Brinded, the head of exploration and production, is skilled at dealing with governments, but was tarnished by Shells repeated writedowns of its reserves in the aftermath of the misreporting scandal that emerged in 2004.
Voser surprise choice as Shell chief
Encouragement from inside and outside the company persuaded Mr Voser to abandon the idea of returning to Switzerland, which he had considered, and to put himself forward to replace Mr van der Veer.
Business big shot: Peter Voser
Peter Voser's appointment as chief executive of Shell suggests an effort has been made to draw a line under the murkiest episode in the company's recent history.
Finance officer Peter Voser takes command at Royal Dutch Shell
The Anglo-Dutch group said that the appointment of Mr Voser came after a review of both internal and external candidates. He saw off two other Shell candidates: Linda Cook, the American head of Shell's Gas and Power business, and Malcolm Brinded, the British head of exploration and production.
Shell Picks New CEO For Difficult Times
Voser was already one of the potential candidates back in 2007, when van der Veer announced his retirement, but there had been some hope that the head of North America, Linda Cook, would be announced as the company's first female CEO.
Linda Cook, Shells director of gas and power… tipped as future chief executive
When you look at the number of women at entry level, the same numbers are not reflected at the top but we are seeing good progress. She cites Linda Cook, Shells director of gas and power, who is tipped as a future chief executive.
Pentagon Hands Iraq Oil Deal to Shell
From a "news conference in Baghdad's heavily guarded Green Zone," the Times quoted Linda Cook, the executive director of the Shell's gas and power unit, as saying, "We are ready to establish a presence."
Shell makes move into Iraq
Linda Cook, Shell's head of gas and power, was in Baghdad yesterday to sign a multi-billion dollar agreement to make commercial use of gas currently being flared off in southern Iraq.
Shell Sets Up First Iraq Office Since the 1970s
We are ready to establish a presence, the official, Linda Cook, executive director of the companys gas and power unit and a member of the board, said during a news conference in Baghdads heavily guarded Green Zone in response to a question
Statement by Royal Dutch Shell Plc: Iraq and Shell sign agreement on south Iraq gas
Speaking at the signing ceremony in Baghdad, Linda Cook, Executive Director for Royal Dutch Shell, said today: "Shell is an industry leader in the global natural gas sector. Iraq has one of the world's largest natural gas resource bases and I am delighted that the Iraqi Government including the Ministry of Oil have supported Shell as the partner for joint venture with the South Gas Company.
Shell CEO Jeroen van der Veer has built up an annual pension entitlement of £828,923 a year
The only woman to enter the top 20 pensions list was Linda Cook, Shell's gas and power boss and a frontrunner to take over the oil company as chief executive when Van der Veer retires.
Linda Zarda Cook the next CEO of Royal Dutch Shell?
Linda Zarda Cook, a Shawnee native who earned a bachelor's degree in petroleum engineering from KU in 1980, ranks 43rd. Now the executive director of gas and power for Royal Dutch Shell, Cook is in the running to become CEO of the company in 2009
More women stalled on corporate ladder
On Aug. 8 Lynn Elsenhans, who previously worked for Royal Dutch-Shell, will take over from John Drosdick as the CEO of Sunoco, an American oil-refining giant. Meanwhile Shells executive director of gas and power, Linda Cook, is said to be one of two internal candidates who could replace the companys CEO, Jeroen van der Veer, who is due to step down next year. Should she do so, she would become the first female CEO of a major oil producer.
Comments of former Shell Exec Paddy Briggs on Linda Cook
By Paddy Briggs
There are many who believe that many of Shells problems in recent times has come from a growing Americanisation of this historically European company. My experience with senior Americans (Jim Morgan, Steve Miller, Lynn Elsenhans and others) was that they were usually likeable but wholly unsuited to the international character of Shell. The regrettable centralisation of decision making is an American led virus. Linda Cook has no international experience to speak of and she sounds like an archetypal centralising American business apparatchik – the last thing Shell needs just now.
Cook ahead in Shell’s two-horse race
In the minds of some outside the company, Mr Brinded's image is still tarnished by memories of the aftermath of the reserves scandal in 2004.
Emissions scheme adds to LNG costs, Shell says
Ms Cook, who is based in The Hague, said Australia was an attractive place to develop LNG because of its large resource base and its proximity to large markets in Asia. Shell owns 34 per cent of Woodside and has stakes in several potential LNG projects in Australia including Gorgon, Wheatstone, Browse, Sunrise, Prelude and a Gladstone project.
Shell urges Rudd to protect LNG
Shell Australia chairman Russell Caplan and the company's global head of gas power Linda Cook said yesterday they would continue to work with the federal Government to ensure the interests of the emissions-intensive, trade-exposed (EITE) sector were catered for in the carbon trading regime.
Shell sees no problem in dealing with concerns over coal seam gas
Royal Dutch Shell's global head of power and gas, Linda Cook yesterday said the super major was still looking for new CSG openings in Australia to add to its recently added stake in Arrow Energy. "We've had that (CSG) on our radar for some years," Ms Cook said during a visit to Australia.
Cook to break the mould at Shell
Cook joined the Shell board in 2004 in the aftermath of the embarrassing reserves scandal that cost chairman Sir Phil Watts and finance director Judy Boynton their jobs. She was devastated by the shake-up, having liked and respected Watts, but she refused to be deflected by the upheaval, choosing instead to get on with the job.
Linda Cook said to be front-runner for Royal Dutch Shell CEO job (does this mean Malcolm Brinded CBE will end up as doorman at Shell Centre?)
In March 2007, Brinded was at the center of allegations claiming that that "top directors of Shell Expro in Aberdeen, the UK arm of the Anglo-Dutch group, allegedly sanctioned a policy widely known as Touch Fuck All (TFA) whereby offshore installation managers were told to stop any work with the potential to cause unplanned shutdowns"
Shell: Linda Cook in race for CEO-position
Linda Zarda Cook, a University of Kansas petroleum engineering graduate, is among the world's 100 most powerful women, according to a recent issue of Forbes magazine. Linda Cook, a Shawnee native who earned a bachelor's degree in petroleum engineering from KU in 1980, appears as 44th on the list.
Business big shot: Linda Cook
While female petroleum engineers are rare, female chief executives of big international oil companies are even rarer. In fact, Ms Cook, 50, would be the first if she were to replace Jeroen van der Veer when he retires next June.
Shell’s queen of the gas fields
In what now appears to be a two-horse race for the chief executive's job at Royal Dutch Shell, Linda Cook has some advantages over her leading rival Malcolm Brinded, head of exploration and production.
Cook in pole position in race to be Shell chief
Linda Cook, the head of gas and power at Royal Dutch Shell, has moved into pole position to be the first woman chief executive of a major international oil company, after Peter Voser, the companys chief financial officer, was reported to have dropped out of the race.
Shell buys Gazprom’s first LNG to the US
edubourse.com: Shell buys Gazprom’s first LNG to the US
Friday 2 September 2005
Source : La Société
Actualité du 02/09/05 à 16:36
Gazprom Marketing & Trading Ltd, a marketing company of Russian gas giant Gazprom, and Shell Western LNG BV today announced the first shipment of Gazprom-owned LNG into the US market. This LNG cargo will enter the US market through the Cove Point LNG import terminal, where Shell NA LNG LLC owns 1/3 of the regassification capacity.
The Gazprom cargo will be purchased by Shell and marketed by Shell’s North American Trading organization Coral Energy Holding, L.P. The arrival of this LNG cargo marks a historic first step in Gazprom’s presence in both the US market and the global LNG industry, and further strengthens the growing global cooperation between Gazprom and Shell.
BLOOMBERG: Shell Stock Headed for Worst Week Since January 2004
BLOOMBERG: Shell Stock Headed for Worst Week Since January 2004
“The shares of Royal Dutch/Shell Group fell in London, heading for their worst week since the January 2004 disclosure that the company’s oil and gas reserves had been overstated for years. The reason now: soaring costs and project delays from Russia to Nigeria. Shell, Europe’s second-largest oil company, yesterday said an oil and gas development in Russia’s Far East is behind schedule and may cost $20 billion, twice original estimates. (Update1)
Posted Saturday 16 July 2005
(Bloomberg) — The shares of Royal Dutch/Shell Group fell in London, heading for their worst week since the January 2004 disclosure that the company’s oil and gas reserves had been overstated for years.
Shell to end going Dutch and unite
THE BUSINESS: Shell to end going Dutch and unite
Sunday 26 June 2005
By: Richard Orange June 26, 2005
THIS Tuesday, Royal Dutch/Shell’s management team go their separate ways. Chairman Jeroen van der Veer is off to The Hague, taking with him refining head Rob Routs and gas chief Linda Cook. Exploration head Malcolm Brinded stays in London, bringing along retiring chairman Lord Oxburgh.
Management might act as one when deciding on what terms to accept for one of the company’s multibillion dollar mega-projects, as the company has always claimed, but each director is subservient to the board of one half or other of the separate listed arms of Royal Dutch Petroleum and Shell Transport and Trading.
Shell to Develop Chinese Gas Field With PetroChina
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL: Shell to Develop Chinese Gas Field With PetroChina
By MATT POTTINGER
Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
May 18, 2005; Page B2
BEIJING — Royal Dutch/Shell Group made a final decision to pour $600 million into developing an onshore gas field in China with PetroChina Co., representing a major foreign investment in the country’s natural-gas sector.
The long-planned project between the Anglo-Dutch energy titan and China’s largest oil company involves producing natural gas from the Changbei field in northwest China for sale to provinces and cities to the east, said Shell’s executive director of gas and power, Linda Cook, in an interview in Beijing.
Shell hires new finance director after reserves scandal
The Independent: Shell hires new finance director after reserves scandal
By Michael Harrison, Business Editor
25 June 2004
Shell moved yesterday to fill the gap at finance director level caused by the scandal over its mis-reporting of oil reserves by appointing a senior executive from the Swiss engineering giant ABB to the post.
Peter Voser, chief financial officer at ABB, will take up his job at Shell in October and will also join the oil company’s committee of managing directors – in effect its executive board. Mr Voser, 45, spent 20 years with Shell, leaving in 2002 after he was beaten to the job of finance director by Judy Boynton who was brought in from the US film and camera company Polaroid. Mr Voser is now replacing Ms Boynton who was forced to step down two months ago because of the lax internal controls within Shell, which resulted in it overstating its proven oil and gas reserves by 4.5 billion barrels or 25 per cent.
Influence doesn’t require power, Shell CEO says
Globe&Mail.com: Influence doesn’t require power, Shell CEO says
By Richard Bloom
Saturday, June 5, 2004 – Page B7
Departing Shell Canada Ltd. president and chief executive officer Linda Cook says women don’t have to be born into power or privilege to exert influence on society, noting that women from all walks of life have made significant impacts on the world.
“Don’t forget that, for thousands of years, women have honed their skills as influencers without overt power. As wives and mothers we have cajoled and persuaded to great effect,” said Ms. Cook, above, in a keynote address to a Women of Influence luncheon of nearly 1,000 people.
Linda Cook, CEO Of Shell Canada To Receive 2004 ‘Yes She Can’ Award
CNW Telbec (Communiqués de presse): Linda Cook, CEO Of Shell Canada To Receive 2004 ‘Yes She Can’ Award
WINNIPEG, May 31 /CNW/ – Linda Cook, President and CEO of Shell Canada Limited, is the 2004 recipient of the Balmoral Hall School “Yes She Can” Award.
Ms Cook will receive her award in recognition of her leadership within the global marketplace at a dinner in Winnipeg on Monday June 14, 2004.
The “Yes She Can” award is presented by Balmoral Hall School, Canada’s premiere all-girls independent school, to celebrate positive role models for young women.
For further information: Balmoral Hall School, Claire Sumerlus,
Cook’s tenure at Shell Canada far too brief
TheGlobe&Mail.com: Cook’s tenure at Shell Canada far too brief
By DEBORAH YEDLIN
Friday, May 21, 2004 – Page B2
Well that didn’t last long, did it?
Linda Cook’s tenure as the first woman to lead an integrated oil and gas company in North America is going to be clocked at less than one year, not exactly what anyone expected, including Ms. Cook.
Back in September, barely a month after settling in the saddle as Shell Canada’s chief executive officer, Ms. Cook was “white hatted” in true Calgary fashion and welcomed into the disappointingly small circle of 70 prominent women from the city’s business community.
Linda Cook
The Times: Need to Know: Global Business Briefing
Edited by Neelam Verjee and Joe Bolger
May 19, 2004
Royal Dutch/Shell, the Anglo-Dutch oil giant, has appointed Linda Cook, head of Shell Canada, as a new managing director to bolster a board which has been depleted by recent sackings.