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Shell signs global strategic alliance agreement with CNOOC

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(Reuters) – Royal Dutch Shell: Tuesday, 17 June 2014

* Shell and CNOOC sign global strategic alliance agreement

* Shell and China National Offshore Oil Corporation (cnooc) announced today that they have signed a global strategic alliance agreement

* Under agreement, companies also commit to exploring potential cooperation opportunities in upstream, midstream and downstream

* Agreement was signed by Royal Dutch Shell Chairman Jorma Ollila and CNOOC Chairman Wang Yilin

* Committed to growing business together with CNOOC and other Chinese partners and cooperating with them internationally to bring more and cleaner energy to china – CEO read more

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BP And Shell Land China Deals

Jun 16th, 2014

by John Donovan.

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Extracts from an article by Sky News City Editor Mark Kleinman published 16 June 2014 under the headline: “BP And Shell Land China Deals As Premier Visits” read more

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Shell Signs Deal With China’s State Oil Producers to Get Access

Jul 25th, 2012

by John Donovan.

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By Brian Swint – Jul 25, 2012 12:18 PM GMT+0100

Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSA), Europe’s biggest oil company, expanded cooperation with China’s state- backed producers, giving it more access to reserves in the world’s second-largest economy.

The London-based company signed two offshore production- sharing contracts with Cnooc Ltd. (883) for the Yinggehai basin and amended a production sharing agreeement with China National Petroleum Corp. to allow the development of tight gas reserves, Shell said in a statement today. It also agreed to explore blocks off Gabon with Cnooc. read more

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Shell ups China presence with CNOOC tie-up

Jul 25th, 2012

by John Donovan.

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LONDON | Wed Jul 25, 2012 8:48am EDT

(Reuters) – Oil major Shell (RDSa.L) sealed an exploration tie-up with China’s state-run oil firm CNOOC (0883.HK) on Wednesday in a move which will help secure longer term growth from projects in the world’s energy-hungry second largest economy.

Shell said it agreed two partnership deals with CNOOC, one to explore for oil and gas in the Yinggehai basin in the South China Sea, and one to look for hydrocarbons off the coast of Gabon.

Shell already operates a gas field in central China, in the Changbei block, and said it would seek to increase production on that block through a separate amended agreement with state-run CNPC, where it is partnered with CNPC’s listed arm PetroChina (0857.HK). read more

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Cnooc’s Profit Growth to Surpass Exxon, Shell on Output, Prices

Aug 21st, 2008

by John Donovan.

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Aug. 21 (Bloomberg) -- Cnooc Ltd.'s first-half profit growth may be double that of Exxon Mobil Corp. and Royal Dutch Shell Plc after China's third-largest oil company increased its crude reserves and output amid record prices.

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Cnooc, Other Chinese Oil Companies May Lead Oil Mergers

Aug 23rd, 2005

by John Donovan.

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BLOOMBERG: Cnooc, Other Chinese Oil Companies May Lead Oil Mergers

“BG Group Plc, Repsol YPF SA, Woodside Petroleum Ltd. and even Royal Dutch Shell Plc also “could be in the hands of other players…”

Tuesday 23 August 2005

Aug. 23 (Bloomberg) — Cnooc Ltd., Petrochina Co. Ltd. and other Chinese oil companies may be back in the takeover hunt to get access to more reserves to meet demand in the country’s growing economy, a Foresight Research Solutions energy analyst says.

After the sting of Cnooc failing to prevail in the bidding for Unocal Corp., the company and its Chinese rivals are likely to stay away from U.S., Canadian, Australian and European targets, said Bernard Picchi, an energy analyst for Foresight in New York in a note to investors. read more

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The Australian: Chinese whispers wrong on Woodside

Aug 16th, 2005

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The Australian: Chinese whispers wrong on Woodside

“CHINA’S third-ranked oil company, the government-owned CNOOC, was not interested in making a takeover offer for Woodside Petroleum, it has told the West Australian Government.”

Tuesday August 16, 2005

Nigel Wilson, Energy writer

CHINA’S third-ranked oil company, the government-owned CNOOC, was not interested in making a takeover offer for Woodside Petroleum, it has told the West Australian Government.

The company’s CEO, Fu Chengyu, dismissed the suggestion at a meeting in Beijing last week with Western Australia’s State Development Minister, Alan Carpenter.

The English-speaking Mr Fu opened the discussion with the senior minister by openly addressing speculation that has helped drive Woodside’s shares hit record highs in recent weeks. read more

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Cnooc Stock Arcs to New High

Aug 15th, 2005

by John Donovan.

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THE WALL STREET JOURNAL: Cnooc Stock Arcs to New High

“Four years ago, the Australian government blocked an effort by Shell to take control of Woodside on grounds it wasn’t in the national interest and limited Shell to a 34% stake. Analysts assume a takeover by Cnooc would run into similar obstacles.” Lack of Unocal Strain Cheers Investors, but Old Problems Linger

By MATT POTTINGER
Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
August 15, 2005; Page C12

BEIJING — Its attempt to purchase Unocal has failed and its expansion strategy appears stuck.

So why is Cnooc performing so well on the stock market?

The share price of China’s No. 3 oil and natural gas producer touched an all-time high last week, closing Friday at HK$6.05 (78 U.S. cents) on the Hong Kong stock exchange. The stock has been buoyed by soaring crude-oil prices and by the removal of uncertainty surrounding Cnooc’s $18.5 billion bid for Unocal, analysts say. Cnooc withdrew the bid this month amid fierce opposition in the U.S. Congress, paving the way for rival bidder Chevron to acquire the El Segundo, California, oil company. read more

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The corporate dragons chasing success in the West

Aug 7th, 2005

by John Donovan.

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THE INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY: The corporate dragons chasing success in the West

“Analysts say CNOOC could now make a bid for Royal Dutch Shell’s 34 per cent stake in the Australian company Woodside, but it is likely CNOOC would face similar obstacles from the Australian government to what they came up against in the US over the Unocal deal.”

Sunday 7 August 2005

Unocal might have been ‘saved’ for the American nation and the Chinese predators beaten off, but there are many more companies flexing their financial muscles in order to stake a claim in the global marketplace

By Tim Webb, Ben Schneiders and Clayton Hirst

Until recently, takeovers involving Western and Chinese companies were exclusively one-way traffic: Chinese takeaways by their bigger and richer Western rivals were the order of the day. But the tables are turning. Now, increasingly, Chinese companies, mostly owned – and funded – by the Chinese government, are becoming the predators. read more

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NEW YORK TIMES: Aggressive Search by Cnooc for New Oil and Gas Seen

Aug 5th, 2005

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NEW YORK TIMES: Aggressive Search by Cnooc for New Oil and Gas Seen

The Chinese energy company Cnooc is preparing to mount an aggressive international search for oil”

Friday 5 August 2005

By DAVID LAGUE,

International Herald Tribune

Published: August 5, 2005

BEIJING, Aug. 4 – The Chinese energy company Cnooc is preparing to mount an aggressive international search for oil and gas supplies in the aftermath of its failed bid for Unocal, oil industry experts say.

In announcing on Tuesday that it would abandon its $18.5 billion offer, Cnooc, shorthand for the China National Offshore Oil Corporation, signaled that it would continue to work with foreign governments and companies in its search for overseas oil and gas reserves. read more

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DOW JONES NEWSWIRES: INTERVIEW: Unocal Tensions Not Derailing Gorgon Gas Talks

Jul 14th, 2005

by John Donovan.

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DOW JONES NEWSWIRES: INTERVIEW: Unocal Tensions Not Derailing Gorgon Gas Talks

“Estimated to cost at least A$11 billion and produce its first gas in 2010, Gorgon is 50% owned and operated by Chevron. Royal Dutch/Shell Group (RD) and ExxonMobil Corp. (XOM) each own 25% of the venture.”

Thursday 14 July 2005

By Veronica Brooks

Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES

CANBERRA (Dow Jones)–Negotiations between China National Offshore Oil Corp. and the Chevron Corp. (CVX)-led Gorgon liquefied natural gas project are still alive, Australia’s Industry and Resources Minister Ian Macfarlane said Thursday. read more

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THE NEW YORK TIMES: A Deft Balance in Orchestrating China’s Oil Offer

Jul 7th, 2005

by John Donovan.

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THE NEW YORK TIMES: A Deft Balance in Orchestrating China’s Oil Offer

“Mr. Fu said the withdrawal of Shell and Unocal had no bearing on the decision to buy Unocal.”

Thursday July 7, 2005

He has cultivated a Western image, telling visitors that he prefers coffee to tea for the extra caffeine jolt it gives him and hinting that he thinks like a maverick, not a politically correct steward of one of the country’s influential businesses.

Asked about his relations with Chinese leaders, he jokes that there are few he can talk to.

“I don’t think there’s anybody in the government who understands our business,” he said.

Yet whether or not they understand, there are signs that they care. Cnooc has followed a path set by the Politburo and repeated by President Hu as recently as last week, when he told a Politburo session on energy, “We must enthusiastically push ahead with international cooperation to develop energy resources and fully make use of international markets.” read more

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Bid Puts New Focus on China’s Oils

Jun 27th, 2005

by John Donovan.

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BARRON’SOnline: Bid Puts New Focus on China’s Oils

Monday 27 June 2005

By LESLIE P. NORTON

Emerging Markets

EVER SINCE ITS INITIAL public offering in 2001, China National Offshore Oil Corp., or Cnooc (ticker: CEO), has traded at a premium to the better- known PetroChina (PTR), notwithstanding billionaire Warren Buffett’s stake in the latter.

Growth prospects for Cnooc, which explores offshore for oil and gas, were perceived as superior. PetroChina was saddled with mature fields and difficult-to-extract reserves, as well as thousands of gas stations subject to price controls. The other Chinese oil stock, downstream play Sinopec (SNP), historically has traded at a discount to both. read more

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Planet Ark: Shell in talks with China on Sakhalin gas deal

Aug 30th, 2004

by John Donovan.

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Planet Ark: Shell in talks with China on Sakhalin gas deal

CHINA: August 30, 2004

SHANGHAI – Energy giant Royal Dutch/Shell is keen to sell liquefied natural gas LNG.L from its Sakhalin project to China, as it vies with rivals such as BP to tap the market’s potentially explosive growth.

But the world’s third-biggest oil group RD.AS SHEL.L will first have to overcome pricing issues and a still tiny market for supplies from the island development off eastern Siberia’s coast.

Shell, the biggest private supplier of LNG with sales of more than eight million tonnes per year, is ramping up efforts to tap a gas market expected to boom in coming years as Beijing inches toward cleaner fuels. Rival BP BP.L is hard on its heels. read more

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CHINA PRESS: China OKs Refinery Project

Jul 24th, 2004

by John Donovan.

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The Wall Street Journal: CHINA PRESS: China OKs Refinery Project

Originally proposed as a joint venture with Shell, the approved refinery is to be solely funded by China National Offshore Oil Corp

DOW JONES NEWSWIRES

Posted 24 July 2004

BEIJING — A 16 billion yuan ($1=CNY8.28) refinery proposed by China National Offshore Oil Corp., or CNOOC, has been approved by state authorities, Information Times reports Friday.

The refinery, which will have an annual capacity of 12 million metric tons, will be built near CNOOC and Shell Nanhai Ltd.’s existing petrochemical project at Daya Bay in Guangdong province, the newspaper reported.

Originally proposed as a joint venture with Shell , the approved refinery is to be solely funded by CNOOC, the report said. The proposed site is about 120 kilometers from CNOOC’s Huizhou offshore oil field, it said. read more

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The Sunday Times: Shell coy over £1bn refinery in China

May 16th, 2004

by John Donovan.

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The Sunday Times: Shell coy over £1bn refinery in China

From Carl Mortished in Hong Kong

May 15, 2004

SHELL is talking to CNOOC, a leading Chinese oil company, about building a £1 billion oil refinery in Guangdong province to exploit the region’s demand for fuel.

The refinery would be built next to a vast petrochemical plant that CNOOC and Shell are building at Huizhou in Daya Bay. Costing $4.3 billion (£2.45 billion), the CSPC-Nanhai complex would supply raw chemicals for China’s rapidly expanding plastics and packaging industry.

Shell’s negotiations with CNOOC over a significant energy infrastructure project have emerged as concerns mount about the impact on the price of oil of China’s soaring energy needs.
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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 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

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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":
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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

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