Don't rule out a gas cartel; it makes sense to Russia

By Carl Mortished

WHAT ARE the prospects for a gas cartel, an organisation of gas exporting countries or Ogec? The unpleasant truth is that they look better every day and not just because Gazprom, the world’s biggest gas exporter is being vocal about its ambition to dominate global gas markets.

With periodic gas shortages and thermal units selling at high prices in Britain and the US, you might think that a gas exporter, such as Gazprom or Algeria’s Sonatrach, has nothing to worry about. There is ample demand and constrained supply. Europe’s big reservoirs of gas in the North Sea are depleting quickly, power stations are hungry and Russia struggles in periods of peak demand to maintain the pressure in export pipes.

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Europe needs much more gas, so why should its potential suppliers — Russia, Algeria, Libya, Nigeria and Qatar — risk political opprobrium among consuming nations by combining forces. The answer is fear. Many fear a glut of liquefied natural gas (LNG) and their fear is justified.

Oversupply is building in LNG, a market which is upsetting the old wisdom about gas being a local, disconnected market of rigid long-term contracts between suppliers and consumers linked by pipelines. To everyone’s surprise, a trading market in LNG has quickly emerged in the Atlantic basin where refrigerator ships loaded with frozen gas can alter course to Europe or America, in search of the best price. read more

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The Times: City Diary: Hard to swallow

Apr 26th, 2006

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The Times

April 26, 2006

City Diary

Hard to swallow

By Caroline Merrell

ROYAL Dutch Shell, the oil giant that earlier this year announced record annual profits, has taken the opportunity of a little cost-cutting at its London headquarters. The free lunches enjoyed by staff at the canteen have been axed. An astonishing decision given that the soaring oil price looks set to bring in another year of record earnings at the group.

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POLITICAL correctness seems to have broken out at one of London’s top legal firms. Nearly all the City’s lawyers now have people in charge of “diversity” — to the uninitiated that means ensuring that recruitment programmes include enough women and people from different ethnic backgrounds. Herbert Smith, however, has gone one step further, and has hired its first inclusivity manager. What does it mean? And how does it differ from a diversity manager? read more

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ShellNews.net: An Email about Shell from Ogoni Author, Ben Wuloo Ikari.

Apr 26th, 2006

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The following is an email received from Ben Wuloo Ikari, the author of a recently published book entitled *“Ken Saro-Wiwa And Mosop-The Story and Revelation”.

Dear Mr. Donovan,

I write to show my appreciation for all your efforts at making Shell Oil accountable and responsible. You've been one of the very few who keep the deadly company on its toes. Dr. John Houng, is another. Thanks so very much for the tested information you continue to provide your audience. My regard also to your son for his high spirit and zeal to uphold the truth against a company that believe in killing for profit making. read more

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SHELL’S ROLE IN NIGERIAN OPL 245 BRIBERY SCANDAL

Whatever fig leaves they might be trying to use to hide the truth, Shell and Eni paid over $1bn to a company called Malabu for the OPL 245 licence. Even though the payment was channelled through the Nigerian government, it was clear that Shell knew that the ultimate beneficiary was Dan Etete, the former minister of petroleum. Etete is the owner of Malabu, to whom he awarded the licence when he was Nigerian Minister of Petroleum.

The Economist: Safe sex in Nigeria: (Court documents shed light on the manoeuvrings of Shell and ENI to win a huge Nigerian oil block): 15 June 2013

Malabu Oil Deal: I Only Got $1.1 billion bribe from Shell and Eni: 15 June 2013

Reuters: UK police probing Shell, ENI Nigerian oil block deal: 24 July 2013

The Scandal of Nigerian Oil Block OPL 245: 25 Nov 2013

SIGNED STATEMENT OF TRUTH: 10 Dec 2013

JUDICIAL REVIEW APPLICATION: DATED 10 Dec 2013

Nigerian lawmakers recommend revoking Shell, Eni OPL 245 oil block licence: 20 Feb 2014

Royal Dutch Shell Implicated in Nigerian OPL 245 Corruption Scandal: 11 Sept 2014

$190m frozen in UK and Switzerland in OPL 245 bribery case as ENI CEO is named as suspect: 11 Sept 2014

Safe Sex and Corruption in Nigeria - OPL 245: 18 Sept 2014

Eni payments 'used to bribe Nigeria officials': 2 Oct 2014

UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO) documents released covering meetings between FCO and Shell regarding OPL 245 oil field : 2 Oct 2014

APC questions Jonathan over Malabu Oil $550mn bribery scandal: 12 Oct 2014

OPL 245 Deal:Lawyers jostle to represent Malabu: 28 Oct 2014

Secrecy order lifted on legal challenge to corrupt Nigerian oil deal (OPL 245): 7 Nov 2014

Shell knew of fraud and moneylaundering activities during purchase of an oilfield in Nigeria: 30 Jan 2015

Nigeria: Malabu - Court Fixes Application to Halt Suit for March 12: 6 Feb 2015

Related article by Business Insider UK: The extraordinary story of Nigeria's $20 billion oil money 'leakage' 6 Feb 2015

Nigeria: ENI Misled Shareholders Over Nigeria Corruption Scandal – – Global Witness: 1 JUNE 2015

EFCC quizzes former minister, Etete, over alleged oil deal: 29 JUNE 2015

Nigerian Probes Uncover $12bn Oil Fraud: 10 NOV 2015

COURT REFUSES TO UNFREEZE FUNDS FROM “SMASH AND GRAB” RAID ON NIGERIAN OIL BLOCK: 15 DEC 2015

$1.1bn Malabu Scam: Leaked emails show Shell, Eni, Jonathan’s aides conspired to divert money to Etete: 19 Dec 2015

Shell, Eni in fresh trouble as Nigeria begins moves to withdraw OPL 245 from Malabu, Dan Etete: 25 JAN 2015

Shell, Eni In Fresh Trouble As Nigeria Begins Moves To Withdraw OPL 245: 26 JAN 2016/a>

9 Billion Barrels of Crude At Risk In Massive Nigerian Oil Shakeup: 28 JAN 2016

Nigerian President Steps Up Fight Against Corruption: 28 JAN 2016

Premuim Times: Turf War Over $1.3 Billion OPL 245 Shell/Eni Malabu Scam: 8 FEB 2016

Face-off over Malabu Shell/Eni oil bloc scam: 15 FEB 2016

Reuters Article: Shell says Dutch investigators visit Shell HQ in Nigeria oil probe: 30 March 2016

Reuters Article: Italian prosecutors probe Shell over Nigeria oil deal - source: 30 March 2016

Wall Street Journal Article: Shell Meets Investigators About Role in Nigeria Deal: 30 March 2016

Daily Mail Article: Shell dragged into Nigeria oil corruption probe: 30 March 2016

Premium Times Article: Malabu $1.3 billion scandal: Dutch investigators question Shell officials: 30 March 2016

FT Article: Shell headquarters visited by corruption investigators: 30 March 2016

Guardian Newspaper Article: Shell faces corruption probe over $1bn oil deal in Nigeria: 30 March 2016

BBC News Article: Shell Nigeria deal probed in Italy: 31 March 2016

News Article: Which Members of the Royal Dutch Shell Executive Committee Approved the OPL 245 Scam?: 31 March 2016

UPI Article: Shell target of Nigerian corruption probe?: 31 March 2016

New York Times Article: Italy Probes Shell's Role in Purchase of Nigerian Oil Block: 31 March 2016

Sahara Reports Article: $180m Halliburton Probe: EFCC Boss, AGF In U.S.: 1 April 2016

Ecologist: Shell investigated over $1 billion corrupt oil deal: 4 April 2016

Sahara Reports Article: $200 Million Diverted To Italian Accounts In Malabu Scandal, Italian Sources Say: 9 April 2016

THE NATION: Malabu Oil deal: EFCC quizzes SNEPCO boss over $1,092b settlement cash: 20 April 2016

PREMIUM TIMES: $1.1billion Malabu scam: Italian oil giant, ENI, admits wrongdoing: 14 May 2016

News24Nigeria: Former Head of State, ex Senate President named in Malabu oil deal scam: 29 August 2016

Vanguard: Malabu Oil Deal: New facts implicate more Nigerians: 2 September 2016

London Evening Standard: OPL 245: Murky saga of an ex-minister and ‘siphoned-off’ oil millions: 7 September 2016

allAfrica.com: Nigeria: U.S.$1.1 Billion Malabu Oil Deal – Investigations Are Ongoing, Says AGF: 14 October 2016

THE NATION: Malabu malady: 24 October 2016
John Donovan’s ebooks

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SHELL “CLOAK AND DAGGER” ACTIVITIES

FOR DETAILED INFORMATION SEE ARTICLE: Corporate espionage: Shell Cloak and Dagger activities
SHELL PERSECUTION OF DR JOHN HUONG

FOR DETAILED INFORMATION INCLUDING COURT DOCUMENTS SEE ARTICLE: Dr John Huong Index
SHELL SAKHALIN2 DEBACLE

SEE ARTICLE: SAKHALIN2: How many billions of dollars did Shell lose in Russian annexation?
NAZI HISTORY OF ROYAL DUTCH SHELL

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.

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Shell appeased and collaborated with the Nazis. The oil giant instructed its employees in the Netherlands to complete a form giving particulars about their descent, which for some, amounted to a self-declared death warrant. Shell used slave labor and was a close business partner in Germany of I.G. Farben, the notorious Nazi run chemical giant that also used slave labor and supplied the Zyklon-B gas used during the Holocaust to exterminate millions of people, including children. Shell continued the partnership with the Nazis in the years after the retirement of Sir Henri and even after his death. It was money generated on Shell forecourts around the world, profiteering from cartel oil prices, that funded the Nazi party and saved it from financial collapse. Evidence about Shell's Nazi connections can be found in extracts from "A History of Royal Dutch Shell" Volumes 1 and 2 authored by historians paid by Shell, who had unrestricted access to Shell archives. There are 67 pages in total, so takes some time to download.

Photograph (full size here) shows a Swastika flag flying at the head office of Royal Dutch Petroleum, 30 Carel van Bylandtlaan, The Hague, during the Nazi occupation of the in World War II (From Image Database Hague Municipal)

Sir Henri Deterding, the founder of the Royal Dutch Shell Group - known as "The Most Powerful Man in the World" - who became an ardent Nazi and financial supporter of Hitler and the Nazi party.
SHELL ANIMAL EXPERIMENTS

Unfortunately, it is not fake news. Shell has carried out experiments on several hundred thousand animals and is continuing to do so.
SHELL IP PIRACY

Reading between the lines in various legal documents, it seems that the allegations are that after the technology in question had been disclosed to a Shell company in the USA, the information was passed to Shell in the Netherlands in breach of confidentiality. And Royal Dutch Shell subsequently exploited the technology without payment or credit to the company holding the rights; Newton Research Partners. The inference seems to be that Twister B.V. was founded by Shell partly on trade secrets stolen from Bloom/Newton.

For more information read:

ARTICLE: Shell in the US courts again for alleged theft of trade secrets: 20 June 2014

ARTICLE: Twister B.V. by name, Twister by nature?: 09 August 2014
WEBSITE INFORMATION

DISCLAIMER: This is not a Shell website nor is it officially endorsed by or affiliated with Royal Dutch Shell Plc. Originally co-founded by the late Alfred Donovan and his son John, it is now operated by John, Shell's "No.1 Enemy", aided by an expert team, with invaluable support from retired Shell senior executives and officials as guest contributors and leaked information from Shell insiders.

(JOHN DONOVAN, WEBSITE OWNER)
For nearly a decade, we have operated globally under the Royal Dutch Shell Plc top level domain name, dealing on Shell’s reluctant behalf with job applications, business proposals, Shell pension enquiries, shareholder enquiries, complaints, invitations to speak at conferences, an approach from the Dutch Defence Ministry and even terrorist threats. All meant for Shell. Prospect magazine has aptly described this website as being:"An open wound for Shell":
WIPO proceedings by Shell to seize the domain name failed.
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SHELL TACIT ENDORSEMENT: WHAT A WELL INFORMED SHELL OFFICIAL SAID ABOUT US: "John and Alfred Donovan well known in UK/Hague. They perceive Shell played them and so have made it their mission to embarrass, belittle and criticize Shell, which they do quite well. Their website, royaldutchshellplc.com is an excellent source of group news and comment and I recommend it far above what our own group internal comms puts out."
WARNING TO SHELL EMPLOYEES: Shell Global Affairs Security "CAS") is spying on Shell employees globally trying to trace who is visiting, posting, or leaking information to this website from Shell premises. Threats, including death threats, have allegedly been made against conscience driven Shell whistleblowers supplying us with information. The worlds biggest leak of employee details as part of a claimed corporate revolution by 116 Shell employees, suggest the espionage operation, threats and draconian litigation have not been entirely successful in cutting off the supply of information to this website. The insider leaks had already cost Shell billions on the Sakhalin Energy project and the loss of SEIC Deputy Chairman, David Greer.
We publish our own carefully researched articles about Shell e.g. "How Royal Dutch Shell saved Hitler and the Nazi Party".
MEDIA COVERAGE: Prospect Magazine, The Sunday Times, and The Guardian, have all published major articles about us: "Rise of the Gripe Site";"Two men and a website mount vendetta against Shell' and "92-year-old's website leaves oil giant Shell-shocked”.
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SHELL’S $500,000 WEDDING GIFT TO CORRUPT BRUNEI ROYAL FAMILY

EXTRACT FROM ASIAN JOURNAL ARTICLE IN LIST OF LINKS BELOW: "Fireworks will light up the sky for three nights. The local unit of oil giant Royal Dutch Shell has donated 500,000 Brunei dollars (US$292,400; euro 243,700) for the display, and for cultural events to be hosted by popular performers from Malaysia."

DAILY MAIL ONLINE: In April, Brunei shocked world by introducing harsh sharia penal code: Under the code limbs can be severed for theft and people stoned to death: 8 Jan 2015

THE DAILY BEAST: How the Sultan of Brunei Violated His Sharia Law With Me: 6 May 2014

FOX NEWS: Can Beverly Hills force Sultan of Brunei to sell his hotel chain?: 8 May 2014

FRONTPAGE MAG: Will the Sultan of Brunei Stone his Gay Son to Death?: 6 May 2014

THE NEW YORK POST: The sex-obsessed world of Brunei: (Extract from article: Oil is the source of all wealth, and when Shell began pumping in the 1970s, Brunei soon became known as “the Shellfare state.”:10 May 2014

Corrupt Sultan Of Brunei introduces tough Islamic penal code: 30 April 2014

THE BRUNEI TIMES: Brunei steps up to fight corruption: 9 Dec 2013

BRUDIRECT: Bribery Lands M'sian In Jail For 6 Yrs 4 Mths: 29 Nov 2013

THE BRUNEI TIMES: Man pleads not guilty to bribing BSP staff: 31 May 2012

BUSINESS INSIDER: How The Playboy Prince Of Brunei Blew Through $14.8 Billion: 7 June 2011

DAILY RECORD: Nude statue scandal as brother of Sultan of Brunei sues former lawyers: 11 Nov 2010

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS: Prince Jefri Bolkiah, brother of Sultan of Brunei, wants X-rated sex trophies out of court case: 4 Nov 2010

BruDirect.com: Shell Rewards Employees: 17 Feb 2008

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL: Will the Prince Turn Pauper?: 1 March 2008

THE TELEGRAPH: The £8 billion family feud: 14 May 2006

THE TELEGRAPH: Sultan of Brunei's ex-wife and the £2m con: 12 July 2007

THE TELEGRAPH: Sultan of Brunei marries his second, second wife: (WITH FIREWORKS SPONSORED BY AN OIL COMPANY): May 2005

REPORT OF DAVIS POLK & WARDELL TO SHELL AUDIT COMMITTEE: Highly Confidential Shell Internal Document shows Shell Brunei was involved in the Shell Reserves Scandal: (PDF so takes a while to download: 31 March 2004

BRUNEI-ONLINE.COM: Brunei Shell contributes $500,000 for royal wedding ceremonies: 6 Aug 2004

REPORT PUBLISHED BY UK FINANCIAL SERVICES AUTHORITY: Confirms Shell Brunei involvement in Shell Reserves Fraud: (PDF so takes a few moments to load): 24 Aug 2004

ASIAN JOURNAL: Brunei sultan sends Lear jet to fetch Arroyo: 9 Sept 2004

THE INDEPENDENT: The $5m royal wedding: 10 Sept 2004

BLOOMBERG: Brothers Grim: The Scandal In Brunei: 9 Aug 1998
BILL CAMPBELL WHISTLEBLOWER EMAIL TO MP’S

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:

THIS IS WHAT IT SAID:

Subject: This could be the most important whistleblower email you have ever received.

Some unfortunate Royal Dutch Shell workers have already lost their lives. More lives are at stake.

My name is Bill Campbell. I am a former Group Auditor of Shell International. I am writing to you on a matter of conscience in an effort to avert the inevitability of another major accident in the North Sea. The consequences could potentially impact on families in many constituencies, including your own.

As Royal Dutch Shell and the Health & Safety Executive would acknowledge, I am an expert on safety matters relating to offshore oil and gas platforms. In 1999, I was appointed by Shell to lead a safety audit on the Brent Bravo platform. The audit revealed a platform management culture that basically gave a higher priority to production than the safety of Shell employees. To our astonishment we discovered that a "Touch F*** All" policy was in place. Worse still, safety records were routinely falsified and repairs bodged.

I personally brought the shocking situation to the attention of senior management including Malcolm Brinded, the then Managing Director of Shell Exploration & Production. I revealed that ESDV leak-off tests were purposely falsified, not once but many times and that Brent Bravo platform management had admitted responsibility for the dangerous practices being followed. In response to my team ringing alarm bells, management pledged to rectify the serious problems which had been uncovered.

When I later complained that the pledges were not being kept, I was removed from my oversight function.

Four years later, a massive gas leak occurred on the platform. Two workers lost their lives. I have no doubt at all that the inaction of the relevant Asset Manager, the General Manager, the Oil Director and Malcolm Brinded, contributed in some part to the unlawful killing of two persons on Brent Bravo in September 2003.

Shell subsequently pleaded guilty to breaches of the HSE regulations and a record-breaking £900,000 fine was imposed. I thought this would bring about a real change in policy to put the emphasis on safety.

Unfortunately I was wrong. Although I supplied the evidence related to 1999, and the fact that there had been a collapse in controls of integrity from 1999 to 2003 on all 16 of Shell's North Sea offshore installations covered in a post fatality integrity review to the HSE for review by the Procurator Fiscal, none of this evidence was presented before the Sheriff at the subsequent Inquiry. The situation is explained in a letter to the Procurator Fiscal and the Sheriff (on 24th February 2007).

Shell management has engaged in spin to try to pretend that it is getting to grips with its safety problem. However, its atrocious safety record - the worst in the North Sea in terms of accidental deaths and absolute number of enforcement actions – tells a different story. This fact has resulted in a number of newspaper articles.

I have had meetings with senior Shell people including its CEO Mr. Jeroen van der Veer. I regret to say that I have found him to be economical with the truth. He prefers to support cover-up and deceit rather than confronting the underlying problems. Brinded is now Executive Director of Shell Exploration & Production. He believes in burying evidence.

My family and friends would probably prefer me to give up on this matter and enjoy my retirement after so many years working for Shell.

However, by writing to every MP in the UK, no one can ever say that I did not do my best to avert an inevitable further major accident event in the North Sea. When it happens (I pray that I am wrong) I will make this warning communication available to the media together with the vast amount of evidence in my possession.

At least my conscience is clear. I have done everything possible to ring the alarm bells about Shell management and its unscrupulous attitude to the safety of its employees.

Yours sincerely
Bill Campbell

ENDS

(Malcolm Brinded and Jeroen van der Veer are no longer with Shell. The Oil Director referred to in the email is Chris Finlayson, who left Shell to become Chief Executive of British Gas before being fired - his photo immediately below)

THE BRENT BRAVO SCANDAL
BRENT BRAVO: THE EVIDENCE ASSEMBLED BY BILL CAMPBELL

BILL CAMPBELL EVIDENCE BUNDLES A to F - June 2012

BILL CAMPBELL EVIDENCE BUNDLES A to F CONTINUED - June 2012
SHELL RESERVES FRAUD

SIR PHILIP WATTS, THE GROUP CHAIRMAN OF ROYAL DUTCH SHELL GROUP, FORCED TO RESIGN IN 2004

Shell’s reputation was destroyed in 2004 after FIVE consecutive cuts to its hydrocarbon reserves covering 55% of its total reserves. US and UK financial regulators imposed $150 million in fines on Shell for securities fraud. Shell was also rocked by class action lawsuits.
Sir Philip Watts and Walter van de Vijver (whose headcut images appear courtesy of The Wall Street Journal) were among the Shell executives forced to resign. More details at the foot of this column. MORE DETAILS:
The Shell reserves scandal brought about the end of the Royal Dutch Shell Group in its original form as an Anglo-Dutch partnership. Shell Transport & Trading Co and Royal Dutch Petroleum were unified into a single Dutch owned company - Royal Dutch Shell Plc. Sir Philip turned to religion and is now a very wealthy priest after receiving a payoff/pension package from Shell reportedly worth $18.5 million. Walter van de Vijver in contrast was the victim of a sadistic sacking by his Shell senior management backstabbing colleagues.

Daily Telegraph: Shell drops ‘bombshell’ on reserves: 9 January 2004

The Times: How Shell blew a hole in a 100-year reputation: 10 January 2004

The West Australian: Investors howl for Shell’s blood: 12 January 2004

London Evening Standard: Shell bosses lied to the City: 19 April 2004

Houston Chronicle:‘Sick and tired about lying’ at Shell: 19 April 2004

Bloomberg: Shell Loses AAA Credit Rating: 19 April 2004

BBC News: Shell bosses ‘fooled the market’: 19 April 2004

The Guardian: Trail of emails reveals depths of deceit at the heart of Shell: 20 April 2004

The Guardian: Shell admits it misled investors: 20 April 2004

The Independent: Lies, cover-ups, fat cats and an oil giant in crisis: 20 April 2004

The Scotsman: Shell implodes as emails provide damning evidence: 20 April 2004

The Times: Deceitful Shell ‘needs ten years’ to rebuild exploration business: 20 April 2004

Financial Times: Observer Column: Shell-shocked: Corporate slogans consigned to the dustbin of history no. 94: “You can be sure of Shell.”: 20 April 2004

Minneapolis Star Tribune: Dutch/Shell Group exec was ‘sick and tired’ of lying: 20 April 2004

Daily Telegraph: Memos expose Shell’s years of lying: 20 April 2004

The Scotsman: Shell’s reputation left in tatters: 21 April 2004

TheStarOnline: Shell report exposes lies, CFO sacked: 21 April 2004

Daily Telegraph: Shell suffers second cut to credit rating: 21 April 2004

Daily Telegraph: Sacked Shell boss ‘escorted from HQ’: 22 April 2004

The Times:A very British kind of scandal: why Shell is no Enron: 23 April 2004

Daily Telegraph: Shell’s lies over reserves spark FSA investigation: 24 April 2004

The Mail On Sunday: Shell's top bosses named in £8 billion lawsuit after being spared the sack: 25 April 2004

Daily Mail: Shell attacked from all sides: 26 April 2004

Daily Telegraph: Shell gives Watts a £1m golden farewell 23 May 2004

Daily Telegraph: Shell slices still more off proven reserves: 25 May 2004

Daily Telegraph: Watts’ pension pot tops £10m: 28 May 2004

London Evening Standard: Shell ‘has lied for 10 years’: 26 June 2004

Shell Closes Book on 2004 Reserves Scandal as Claims Deadline Passes: 5 November 2010

MONTAGE OF MEDIA COVERAGE
by John Donovan

Displayed below are some of the spectacular promotional campaigns my company Don Marketing created for Shell in the 1980s and 1990s. This was before the series of SIX high court actions we brought against Shell for stealing ideas (4) and for defamation (2) - all settled by Shell. This website is a permanent response by me to the malicious underhand tactics, including treachery, espionage and intimidation, used by Shell during and after the bouts of litigation. More information is printed at the foot of this column. MORE DETAILS: After a solicitor acting for Shell threatened to make the litigation "drawn out and difficult" with the intention of draining the resources of a financially weaker opponent, my late father (Alfred Donovan) and I decided to mount a wide-ranging campaign as a counter-measure. We jointly founded the Shell Corporate Conscience Pressure Group, which nearly 15% of Shell UK retailers joined. We regularly conducted ethical surveys involving up to 1500 Shell petrol stations. All responses were opened and authenticated by an independent solicitor who supplied Affidavits confirming the results. In whole page announcements in trade magazines (examples above) we challenged Shell to commission and publish the resuits of independent research asking the same questions and offering respondents GUARANTEED anonymity. Shell never took up the invitation. Instead it asked the UK Advertising Standards Authority to investigate our Shell surveys. No problems were found. The head-cut image of Alfred Donovan appears courtesy of The Wall Street Journal.
SHELL CONTROVERSIES

selection of memorable warnings/articles/images associated with the controversial track record of Royal Dutch Shell.

WARNING: DO NOT DISCLOSE YOUR IDEAS TO SHELL GameChanger OR SHELL Ideas360 WITHOUT TAKING EVERY POSSIBLE PRECAUTION. Shell management has ample funds to pay for intellectual property but prefers to steal it from small businesses and in our experience, gives its full backing to dishonest managers willing to do its bidding. We have sued Shell repeatedly in the High Court for the theft of our Intellectual Property. It is doubtful if anyone can match our dire experience in dealing with this ruthless unscrupulous serial poacher of other parties ideas. Expect threats, legal machinations and sinister action from Shell and its spooks if you object to having your ideas stolen.

LINKS TO SOME RELATED ARTICLES:

ARTICLE: Shell in the US courts again for alleged theft of trade secrets: 20 June 2014

ARTICLE: Shell GameChanger - Scam, or Genuine Game Changer?: 10 June 2014

ARTICLE: Is it safe to disclose ideas to Shell GameChanger?: 7 June 2014

ARTICLE: Royal Dutch Shell plc Brings Crowdsourcing to the Energy Markets: 20 April 2014

ARTICLE: High Court papers unveil ‘secret’ Shell writ losses: 23 April 1998

ARTICLE: Another warning to inventors of the alleged dangers when dealing with Shell : 12 March 2008

ARTICLE: Shell in deepwater, accused of more IP theft: 13 August 2008

ARTICLE: ENERTAG PATENTS: MORE ROYAL DUTCH SHELL IP CHICANERY?: 4 November 2009

ARTICLE: Shell investigates alleged IP theft at Geelong Refinery: 21 April 2012

ARTICLE: Another alleged case of IP theft hits Royal Dutch Shell: 20 May 2012

ARTICLE: Shell Oil Must Pay $153.6 Mln Award to Union Carbide: 17 June 2012

Some years ago extensive documentary evidence was brought to the attention of Malcolm Brinded above, when he was Chairman of Shell UK, proving beyond any doubt that Shell executives had conspired to rig a tender for a major contract. A number of innocent firms were deliberately lured into signing confidentiality agreements and disclosing Intellectual Property to Shell under false pretences, in a carefully contrived plot. The firm which was awarded the contract never took part in the tender. One objective of the Machiavellian plan was to stop/delay IP trade secrets owned by the participants in the tender from being disclosed to Shell's rivals. This was achieved by outright deception, without paying a cent to the firms involved, who wrongly believed they were participating in an honest tender. Instead of sacking the ring leader, AJL - who had a personal relationship with the firm which miraculously won the race in which it never ran - Shell senior directors, including Brinded, gave AJL their full backing. Some of the Shell executives involved, including for example, Tim Hannagan, still hold high positions inside Shell - in his case, Global Brand and Visual Identity Manager. If Shell does not accept that this is a true, provable account of what happened, then it should sue for libel. How on earth is such predatory conduct compatible with Shell's claimed business principles?

FOR MORE INFORMATION, READ THIS ARTICLE:

ARTICLE: Irregularities in a Royal Dutch Shell tender process: 31 October 2011

ARTICLE: SEX, DRUGS & CORRUPTION SPONSORED BY SHELL