FROM A SHELL INSIDER
Most people in Shell EP will know what this really means: Platenkamp talked back too much to Botts (head EPE) and is therefore eased out with someone who does not know anything about EP and is therefore more pliable. I call this ‘surrounding oneself with sycophants’. How does this jive with the wish of v.d.Veer to improve know-how and longer postings in EP?
A plain powergame and further ethnic cleansing of Dutchmen in EP. Something that even Lo van Wachem fought but without success. NAM is one of the biggest dividend payers of the Shell Group so normally one would put a professional in place. Remember that Platenkamp was the man who pointed out in 2000 to the top of Shell that there was another cycle of overpromise and underperformance in the making. They all refused to listen and take action. Now he is sidelined….
Internal Shell message: (The official Spin/BS)
Roelof Platenkamp, currently VP Commercial in EPE and MD NAM, will be appointed to a new role as VP Hydrocarbon Maturation (Chief Petroleum Engineer) in the EP Technical organisation, reporting to Matthias Bichsel, EVP Technical, with effect from 1st March 2006. Roelof will play a leading global role in coordinating our hydrocarbon maturation plans and he will provide functional leadership for the global Petroleum Engineering community. Roelof joined Shell in 1981 and has held various technical and managerial roles in several countries.
Roelf Venhuizen, GM Moerdijk – Manufacturing Chemicals, will be appointed to EPE VP Commercial and MD NAM with effect from 1st March. Roelf joined Shell in 1975 and has held various technical, commercial and managerial roles in the Netherlands and internationally in Shell’s Downstream Chemicals and Manufacturing organizations. From August 2000, until May 2005 when Roelf began his current role, Roelf was GM Shell Nederland Chemie BV (SNC) managing the Moerdijk and Pernis Chemical Manufacturing sites where he also sponsored the Shell Sigma beachhead project for Shell Chemicals.
Please join us in wishing Roelof and Roelf every success in their new roles. Roelf’s successor is subject to normal Open Resourcing, staff consultation and SNC corporate processes and will be announced separately.

















Royal Dutch Shell conspired directly with Hitler, financed the Nazi Party, was anti-Semitic and sold out its own Dutch Jewish employees to the Nazis. Shell had a close relationship with the Nazis during and after the reign of Sir Henri Deterding, an ardent Nazi, and the founder and decades long leader of the Royal Dutch Shell Group. His burial ceremony, which had all the trappings of a state funeral, was held at his private estate in Mecklenburg, Germany. The spectacle (photographs below) included a funeral procession led by a horse drawn funeral hearse with senior Nazis officials and senior Royal Dutch Shell directors in attendance, Nazi salutes at the graveside, swastika banners on display and wreaths and personal tributes from Adolf Hitler and Reichsmarschall, Hermann Goring. Deterding was an honored associate and supporter of Hitler and a personal friend of Goring.
Deterding was the guest of Hitler during a four day summit meeting at Berchtesgaden. Sir Henri and Hitler both had ambitions on Russian oil fields. Only an honored personal guest would be rewarded with a private four day meeting at Hitler’s mountain top retreat.














IN JULY 2007, MR BILL CAMPBELL (ABOVE, A RETIRED GROUP AUDITOR OF SHELL INTERNATIONAL SENT AN EMAIL TO EVERY UK MP AND MEMBER OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS:


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A head-cut image of Alfred Donovan (now deceased) appears courtesy of The Wall Street Journal.

























































