Comments posted on our Shell Blog this morning by two regular contributors in reaction to the 2nd Quarter 2009 results announced by Royal Dutch Shell Plc at 7am today. Guest1 is a senior Shell insider. Paddy Briggs is a highly esteemed former Shell executive.
guest1
on Jul 30th, 2009 at 8:05 am
Just read: We are in the middle of a programme to build 1 million barrels of oil equivalent per day (boe) of additional Upstream capacity. But Brinded has been in the middle of building extra production capacity since many years. So why would we now believe Shell? If Voser has any sense he fires Brinded asap. And all the sycophants around him. Thereafter he may hear the truth and bad news occasionally .
Paddy Briggs
on Jul 30th, 2009 at 11:00 am
What Brinded should have said:
Success for Shell means that we have to find, develop, transport and trade more oil and gas and secure the highest margins we can consistent with the long-term security of our business. This means we must eschew the short-termism that has sometimes characterised our behaviour. To pursue our growth strategy we need the best people the most skilful and experienced practitioners all the way along the chain. The best geologists. The best engineers. The best practical scientists. The best negotiators. The smartest traders. And of course we need good people to do the bookkeeping as we go along. But our distinctive strengths are not the men in the accounts departments. They lie in our highly skilled professional practitioners. So we must keep them and reward them and not berate them. We must offer them long-term job security and not threaten them. That is how we will secure competitive advantage not by facile cuts of staff and costs that never worked in the past and it wont work now.
Some Shell related articles by Paddy Briggs…
GREENWASH The drama and the reality
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.
