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Press Release from The Shell Transport and Trading Company, p.l.c. Monday May 24 2004

YAHOO.com: Press Release from The “Shell” Transport and Trading Company, p.l.c. The ‘Shell’ Transport and Trading Company, p.l.c. – Pre Advice to Annual Report Publication Monday May 24, 7:28 am ET Advice in advance of the publication of the 2003 Annual Reports and Accounts of the Royal Dutch Petroleum Company and The ‘Shell’ Transport and [...]

Royal Dutch/Shell Says Will Publish 03 Report May 28

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL: Royal Dutch/Shell Says Will Publish 03 Report May 28   DOW JONES NEWSWIRES May 24, 2004 6:15 a.m.   Edited Press Release   LONDON — Shell Transport and Trading and Royal Dutch Petroleum said Monday that the annual reports and accounts will be published on May 28 and submitted for approval [...]

Shell Makes Fourth Downgrade Of Oil Reserves This Year

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL: Shell Makes Fourth Downgrade Of Oil Reserves This Year   May 24, 2004   LONDON — Royal Dutch/Shell Group of Cos. Monday downgraded the size of its oil reserves for the fourth time this year.   The company, which stunned shareholders in January when it announced its confirmed oil and gas [...]

CBC News: Shell reduces reserve estimates for fourth time this year

CBC News: Shell reduces reserve estimates for fourth time this year   Posted 24 May 04   TORONTO – Royal Dutch/Shell Group downgraded its oil reserves for the fourth time this year on Monday.   The company said it was shifting about 103 million barrels from “proven” to a less-certain classification.   Shell blamed the [...]

London Evening Standard: Shell slashes reserves again

London Evening Standard: Shell slashes reserves again   Steve Hawkes, 24 May 2004   CRISIS-HIT Shell has been forced to cut the amount of oil and gas reserves on its books for the fourth time since the scandal rocking the energy giant broke earlier this year.   In yet another embarrassing blow, the Anglo-Dutch group [...]

Shell NZ Says Sells Pohokura Gas To NGC Holdings -2-

Yahoo.com Shell NZ Says Sells Pohokura Gas To NGC Holdings -2-   Monday May 24 2004   WELLINGTON (Dow Jones)–Shell New Zealand Ltd., a unit of Royal Dutch/Shell (RD), Monday said it has signed a long-term contract to supply NGC Holdings Ltd. (NGC.NZ) with gas from the offshore Pohokura field.   The agreement with NGC [...]

The Guardian: Calm after the storm in the pay wars

The Guardian: Calm after the storm in the pay wars   Heather Tomlinson Monday May 24, 2004   Shareholder protests muted by summit   Compared with the pantomime of last year, this month’s GlaxoSmithKline annual meeting was a muted affair. The number of protesters could be counted on two hands – a few head office [...]

The Herald: Watts walks off with £1m at Shell

The Herald: Watts walks off with £1m at Shell   KARL WEST May 24 2004        SIR Philip Watts, the disgraced former chairman of oil major Shell, has been awarded a golden farewell pay-off of just under £1m, according to reports.   Watts, who was sacked by the oil giant in March for his [...]

Shell NZ Sells Pohokura Gas To Contact, Genesis, Multi Gas

The Wall Street Journal: Shell NZ Sells Pohokura Gas To Contact, Genesis, Multi Gas   DOW JONES NEWSWIRES May 23, 2004 3:07 p.m. Posted 24 May 04   WELLINGTON — Shell New Zealand Ltd., a unit of Royal Dutch/Shell (RD), said Friday it has signed long-term contracts to supply three companies with gas from the [...]

Royal Dutch/Shell severance deals not agreed yet

Financial Times: Royal Dutch/Shell severance deals not agreed yet By Clay Harris May 24, 2004 Royal Dutch/Shell has not yet agreed the severance packages for Sir Philip Watts, the sacked chairman of its committee of managing directors, and two other executive board members who lost their jobs this year. The delay means that the postponed [...]

Shell, JV partners start oil, gas production from Llano field in Gulf of Mexico

Oil & Gas Journal: Shell, JV partners start oil, gas production from Llano field in Gulf of Mexico    By OGJ editors Posted 23 May 04   HOUSTON, Shell Exploration & Production Co. and its joint venture partners have brought oil and natural gas on production from Llano field on Garden Banks blocks 385 and [...]

Shell gives Watts a £1m farewell

thisisLondon.com: Shell gives Watts a £1m farewell   23 May 2004   SIR Philip Watts, the disgraced former chairman of Royal Dutch/Shell who was sacked by the oil giant in March, has received a payoff of just under £1m, reports the Sunday Telegraph.   Although like all Shell directors Watts was on only three-months notice, [...]

The Sunday Telegraph: Corporate governance? Buy British

The Sunday Telegraph: Corporate governance? Buy British   By Tony Jackson (Filed: 23/05/2004)   Corporate scandal, one might have thought, was a relic of the bubble years: a folly of the late 1990s, now being paid for at leisure. Not a bit of it. Across the Atlantic, at least, it is still going strong. And [...]

The Sunday Telegraph: Shell gives Watts a £1m golden farewell

The Sunday Telegraph: Shell gives Watts a £1m golden farewell   By Sylvia Pfeifer and Robert Peston (Filed: 23/05/2004)   Sir Philip Watts, the disgraced former chairman of Royal Dutch/Shell who was sacked by the oil giant in March, has received a payoff of just under £1m.    Like all Shell directors, Watts was on [...]

The Observer: Amec and Koreans in $1bn Iraq deal

The Observer: Amec and Koreans in $1bn Iraq deal Oliver Morgan Sunday May 23, 2004 Amec, the British engineering and services group, has signed an agreement with the state-owned South Korean oil company to develop oil production in Iraq. The Korea National Oil Company (Knoc) wants to invest up to $1 billion in Iraq in [...]