upstreamonline.com: Shell wields Aberdeen jobs axe
News wires
Anglo-Dutch supermajor Shell has confirmed it is to cut 180 jobs in Aberdeen and review practices regarding contractors, as it reviews its North Sea business.
In a statement, Shell said the cuts in office-based positions, representing 7% of its workforce in the Scottish city, were needed to keep its UK operations competitive in the face of rapidly rising industry costs.
Major players, such as Shell, BP and ExxonMobil have been selling assets and shedding jobs in the North Sea to focus on areas with greater exploration potential.
Last October, BP said it planned to cut its onshore North Sea workforce by almost 20%, a loss of 350 jobs.
BP and Shell are sensitive to the accusation they are gradually exiting the North Sea which helped them retain their position as major players when they lost key assets in the Middle East in the 1960s and 1970s.
Despite the field sales and job cuts, the companies constantly assert their commitment to the area.
A spokeswoman denied Shell was scaling back its operations in the North Sea but declined to disclose whether investment in the mature oil province was rising or falling.
The supermajor said it was committed to minimising compulsory redundancies but did not rule these out.
23 April 2008 11:09 GMT | last updated: 23 April 2008 12:13 GMT
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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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