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.
Malcolm Brinded
Shell pay packages defy poor stock performance
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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 gearing up for difficult environment
A very interesting line from van der Veer: he has revealed that Shell does not plan any further investment in wind and solar power. Shell is focusing its renewables efforts on biofuels, where it is investing quite a lot in research into second generation fuels, so far without any commercial success.
More on the US Department of Justice investigation, which Shell was first made aware of in 2007. We have started an internal investigation, says Mr Voser. He adds that the DoJ is looking at payments done by Panalpina [a global freight forwarding company] to customs in Nigeria on our behalf.
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.
NDelta Crisis: Shell to Lay off More Workers
But Shells Head of Exploration and Production Malcolm Brinded was quoted by Reuters report earlier this year as calling for a drastic reduction in costs in a confidential email he sent to some employees.
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 Bemoans Uncertainty on Rights
Foreign investors want more confidence about access to Russia's energy riches before helping the country tap its far-flung fields, said Malcolm Brinded, a senior executive at Europe's largest oil company, Royal Dutch Shell.
Royal Dutch Shell Plc Chief Ethics & Compliance Officer Richard Wiseman silent on Shell ethical ratings debacle
Geneva-based Covalence published on 20 January 2009 its annual ethical ranking covering 541 multinationals. According to information on their website Covalence s ethical quotation system is a reputation index based on quantifying qualitative data, which is classified according to 45 criteria such as Labour standards, Waste management, Product social utility or Human rights policy. It is a barometer of how multinationals are perceived in the ethical field. Out of 541 multinationals surveyed, Shell is ranked near the bottom, at 510 overall, alongside the likes of the tobacco companies and Halliburton.
Email correspondence with Michiel Brandjes, Company Secretary & General Counsel Corporate: 10 February 2009
Despite all the publicity of your web site, and all the evidence compiled by Bill Cambell, exposing the dreadful short comings of Shells North Sea Safety record, they continue in the same vein!
Interview: Shell eyes Mideast growth, to cut some jobs
Earlier, some employees posted comments on Shell protest website royaldutchshellplc.com saying up to half the jobs at the Dubai operation could go. Dubai is a regional centre for Shell, with more than 600 staff, Restucci said.
Malcolm Brinded at Buckingham Palace
MALCOLM BRINDED, CHIEF EXEC, SHELL EP
Buckingham Palace
2nd February, 2009
His Royal Highness, Special Representative for International Trade and Investment, received Mr. Malcolm Brinded (Executive Director of Exploration and Production, Shell).
An Open Letter to Richard Wiseman, Chief Ethics Evader & Non-Compliance Officer, Royal Dutch Shell Plc from Ray Fox
You will recall the white worms, dying trees and plants in my garden callously dismissed by you at the time as "your horticultural problems" those "problems" subsequently ruined the lives of my family.
Rumours about Motiva Plant Expansion in Port Arthur Texas
On 19 January disturbing rumours over the Motiva Plant expansion in Port Arthur Texas were brought to our attention. Motiva Enterprises LLC is jointly owned by Saudi Refining and Shell.
CNBC: Shell gets tough on costs as oil prices bite
Brinded said Shell had a "dreadful start" to this year after 10 contractors and one third party were killed in three incidents...
Shell employee safety: Shell EP Boss Malcolm Brinded says Shell has had a “dreadful start” to 2009
Shell gets tough on costs as oil prices bite
Tom Bergin
Royal Dutch Shell has intensified its cost-cutting efforts in response to the collapse in oil prices and also plans to step up efforts to improve what it said was a “mixed” safety record.
Shell’s head of Exploration and Production Malcolm Brinded told employees in an email seen by Reuters that staff had to make “tough choices.”
“We simply need much higher sustainable savings this year and I ask for real actions from all of you …. Shed contractor staff, challenge requirements, eliminate consultancy work, reduce travel massively, cut overheads everywhere,” he said.
Shell gets tough on costs as oil prices bite
Fri Jan 30, 2009 7:36pm GMT
By Tom Bergin
LONDON (Reuters) – Royal Dutch Shell (RDSa.L) has intensified its cost-cutting efforts in response to the collapse in oil prices and also plans to step up efforts to improve what it said was a “mixed” safety record.
Shell’s head of Exploration and Production Malcolm Brinded told employees in an email seen by Reuters that staff had to make “tough choices.”
“We simply need much higher sustainable savings this year and I ask for real actions from all of you …. Shed contractor staff, challenge requirements, eliminate consultancy work, reduce travel massively, cut overheads everywhere,” he said.
LEAKED SHELL INTERNAL EMAILS FROM JEROEN VAN DER VEER AND MALCOLM BRINDED DATED 29 JANUARY 2009
The following leaked Shell internal emails contain candid admissions from Shell senior management not provided to shareholders in the Q4 financial results published on the same day. I have highlighted in bold examples of the candid admissions meant for Shell employees only. I supplied the leaked emails to Reuters who published an article after confirming the authenticity of both emails with Shell.
Outspoken articles about Royal Dutch Shell from December 2004 onwards
Links to numerous outspoken articles about Royal Dutch Shell and related matters stretching back to December 2004.
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.
Shell to seek lower cost deals from service firms
Malcolm Brinded, who runs the oil and gas production unit at Shell, which invests more in developing oil and gas fields than any other listed oil company, said the weaker climate for service companies could be good for his company. "You have to look at opportunities that may be around in this cycle," told Reuters in an interview at the sidelines of an industry conference on Monday.
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.
Dutch minister meets Qatar Shell scientists
Andy Brown, Shells managing director of Pearl GTL and Qatar Country Chairman said, It is an honour for us to have minister van der Hoeven visit our facility. Her visit demonstrates the support we receive from the Dutch government to transfer energy technologies from our ongoing Shell research centres in the Netherlands to the Qatar Science and Technology Park for the benefit of Qatar, bringing companies and nations together in the pursuit of real energy solutions for the real world.
Abu Dhabi will remain a Leader in World Energy Industry says Shell
"We'll need all the help technology can give, as the world faces such great energy and environmental challenges. But, above all, the world will need leadership. And here Abu Dhabi can and will play a very strong role," said Malcolm Brinded, Executive Director Exploration and Production, Royal Dutch Shell.
PUBLIC STATEMENT BY BILL CAMPBELL, FORMER SHELL INTERNATIONAL HSE GROUP AUDITOR
The devastating comments coming from such an eminently qualified expert appear to deliver a hammer blow to Mr Brindeds ambitions of succeeding Jeroen van der Veer as CEO of Royal Dutch Shell Plc.
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.
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"
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 Retention Bonuses AGM Vote: “Together with those who abstained from the vote, a total of 49.5 percent didn’t support the bonuses.”
A total of 31.76 percent of voting shareholders rejected a plan to award Malcolm Brinded, Linda Cook and Peter Voser bonus payments of one million euros ($1.57 million), according to Shell's Web site. Together with those who abstained from the vote, a total of 49.5 percent didn't support the bonuses. The proposal would have been rejected if 50 percent plus one vote had opposed the bonuses.
Shell rocked by investor revolt
Royal Dutch Shell yesterday faced an investor revolt at its annual meeting when just under half of voting shareholders failed to back a plan to award three executives 1m (£795,000) bonuses to stay in their jobs.
Next Shell CEO likely internal hire – chairman
Malcolm Brinded, head of Shell's core exploration and production (E&P) unit, is tipped by many as a likely successor at the world's second-largest non-government-controlled oil and gas company by market value.
Financial Times offers deepest apologies to Shell insiders about alleged ‘planted questions’
By John Donovan
The following Royal Dutch Shell Directors and officials were given advance sight of the article below and have chosen not to comment: Shell CEO Jeroen van der Veer, Malcolm Brinded, Executive Director of Shell EP, Keith Ruddock (General Counsel Shell EP), Richard Wiseman, General Counsel of Shell International Ltd and last, but not least, Jorma Ollila, Chairman of Royal Dutch Shell plc.
THE ARTICLE
On Wednesday 9 May 2007, FT.com published a Question & Answer session with Royal Dutch Shell CEO, Jeroen van der Veer. FT readers had been invited over several days to submit questions on the subject of Energy vs environment for Mr Van der Veer to answer.
Ousted dictators
From our October 2005 Shell News Archive
The Seoul Times: NOC of Libya, Shell Agree on Major Gas Deal
“Shell’s Executive Director for Exploration and Production, Mr Malcolm Brinded, said: We are delighted to be back in Libya and honoured to work together with NOC…”: “I am excited about concluding this major agreement.”
Tuesday, October 18, 2005
By Jamal Al Majaida
Middle East & Africa
The National Oil Corporation of the Great Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya (NOC) and Shell Exploration and Production Libya GmbH have reached a long-term agreement for a major gas exploration and development deal.
The agreement covers the rejuvenation and upgrade of the existing LNG Plant at Marsa Al-Brega on the Libyan coast, together with exploration and development of five areas located in the heart of Libya’s major oil and gas producing Sirte Basin.
Shell plans major LNG investment in Libya
Lloyds List: Shell plans major LNG investment
“IT’S good to be back in Libya, says Malcolm Brinded, executive director for exploration and production at oil major Shell, as he announces the start of a huge new liquefied natural gas project centred at Marsa Al-Brega.”
Wednesday Sept 14, 2005
IT’S good to be back in Libya, says Malcolm Brinded, executive director for exploration and production at oil major Shell, as he announces the start of a huge new liquefied natural gas project centred at Marsa Al-Brega.
Shell and Libya’s National Oil Company are refurbishing and upgrading the existing LNG plant at Marsa Al-Brega on the Libyan coast, and exploring for hydrocarbons in the prolific onshore Sirte Basin.
US independent Marathon is looking at developing LNG facilities in Libya in the longer term, perhaps after 2009, says chief executive Clarence Cazelot.
ROYAL DUTCH SHELL ROBBERS AND RASCALS
FROM OUR AUGUST 2005 SHELL NEWS ARCHIVE
ROYAL DUTCH SHELL ROBBERS AND RASCALS
“…Shell shareholders have to foot the bill for lawyers fees run up in the course of defending fat cat crooks, such as Sir Phillip Watts, the disgraced former Group Chairman of the Royal Dutch Shell Group. Sir Phillip ended up with a $18 million USD pension pot AND with all his ongoing legal fees being paid by Shell shareholders. This was after he had LIED AND COVERED UP THE TRUTH ABOUT SHELL’S RESERVES, AND IN THE PROCESS, DESTROYED SHELL’S REPUTATION”
By Alfred Donovan: Monday 12 Sept 2005
The press is having a field day in devising colourful headlines about the scandal ridden Royal Dutch Shell Group. An article in “The Sunday Times” yesterday had a story under the headline: “Shell move robs UK investors”. It reported on the horrendous tax implications for UK Royal Dutch shareholders resulting from the recent Royal Dutch/Shell unification and the dubious way in which Shell has dealt with the controversy thus far.
Yesterdays “Independent on Sunday” used the term “Clever Rascals” about Shell in a headline relating to the Sakhalin project in Russia and the potential ramifications in respect of the critically endangered western grey whale. For the record, the Encarta Online Dictionary definition of a “rascal” is: “dishonest person: somebody, especially a man, who is dishonest or otherwise unethical”.
Shell Opens World Class Facility For Technical Learning
OilVoice.com: Shell Opens World Class Facility For Technical Learning
Wednesday, September 07, 2005
Shell International Exploration & Production (Shell) has today opened a state-of-the-art technical learning centre in its new international headquarters in Rijswijk, the Netherlands. Called Learning@EpiCentre, the site will be the primary venue for Exploration & Production (EP) technical training.
The EP headquarters also houses the central technology and research functions of the business. The world-class teaching facility is designed to accelerate the technical development of staff, and further boost Shell’s technical capability, to support its strategy of ‘more upstream’. Previously based in Noordwijkerhout in the Netherlands, the new location enables better collaboration between staff based at Shell’s EP headquarters and those who come to learn, accelerating knowledge sharing and transfer within the company.
Shell settles Class Action Lawsuit and undertakes ethics makeover
Royal Dutch Shell settles Class Action Lawsuit and undertakes ethics makeover
Wednesday 31 August 2005: 20.00 ET
By John Donovan
Shell today announced that a settlement has been reached with plaintiffs in a shareholder derivative actions arising out of Shell’s 2004 reserves recategorisation – the Shell reserves scandal.
The action alleged that named individual defendants and third parties including PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS and KPMG breached their fiduciary duties to the companies, abused their control over the Companies, aided and abetted breaches by others, and/or committed gross mismanagement and/or constructive fraud.
SHELL: Two radical steps could further distance Royal Dutch Shell from the reserves scandal
SHELL: Two radical steps could further distance Royal Dutch Shell from the reserves scandal
Monday 8 August 2005
By John Donovan
Although the media has welcomed the appointment of Jorma Ollila as the new Shell Chairman from June 2006, many of the news reports about his recruitment also include references to the Shell reserves debacle. This is despite the fact that over a year and a half has passed since news first broke about the scandal.
Commentary harking back to the scandal has been a regular feature of news reports about Shell. Although Shell has paid nearly a quarter of a billion dollars in regulatory fines and litigation settlements, other litigation is still proceeding, as well as on-going investigations, so there is no prospect of negative commentary abating any time soon. There is also the matter of the pending FSA tribunal ruling in respect of proceedings brought by disgraced former Shell Chairman Sir Phillip Watts.
The Observer: Shell has Ollila; now what it needs is oil
The Observer: Shell has Ollila; now what it needs is oil
Sunday 7 August 2005
Oliver Morgan
Sunday August 7, 2005
Congratulations to Royal Dutch Shell on finding a true industrial heavyweight to be its next chairman. Last week’s appointment of Nokia’s Jorma Ollila went down well among Shell followers, and the mishap-prone Anglo-Dutch behemoth even got some rather favourable press. A round of large advocaats for the board, then? Not so fast, barman.
Ollila may turn out to be the best man for the job, but he starts out as the best man to fit a set of criteria so stringent as to have been raising eyebrows in the City for months. That the next chairman of the recently unified ‘new Shell’ was not to be a Brit, a Dutchman or an American for fear of inflaming national rivalries suggested the company had not consigned its notoriously political culture to the past.
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.
