Posts under ‘Shell Job Cuts’

UP to 600 local jobs are on the line after Shell announced it is selling the Geelong refinery it opened in 1954. Shell’s Geelong workers and senior management were told the news yesterday morning, just moments before a public announcement that the company was putting the refinery up for sale. While workers were told not [...]

ABOUT 450 fearful Shell refinery workers in Geelong face a long wait for a lifeline that analysts and unions doubt will ever come. The petroleum giant has announced plans to sell its last remaining Australian refinery, but if it can’t find a buyer by the end of 2014 to keep it open, it may convert [...]

Matt Chambers and Stuart Rintoul From: The Australian April 04, 2013 5:30PM ROYAL Dutch Shell is putting its Geelong refinery up for sale, threatening the jobs of more than 500 workers in a city unions say is “already on its knees”. The oil giant says if it can’t sell the refinery, it will consider turning [...]

Selection of links to Shell related articles kindly supplied by a regular contributor US gets tough on Arctic oil drilling: New Scientist-DRILLING for oil in the Arctic could get a lot tougher. … To resume drilling, Shell will need approval from the federal government and, for the first … PORTER: The earth-shaking promise of shale: [...]

An executive of Shell has said the future of the oil company’s Geelong refinery is ‘borderline’. Shell global downstream director Mark Williams said the operation of the refinery at Geelong was ‘questionable’ given the challenges faced. ‘It’s borderline,’ Mr Williams told the Australian Financial Review. ‘It depends a lot on how it performs over the [...]

UPDATE FROM DELTA RIGHTS GROUP OF 115 FORMER SHELL NIGERIA EMPLOYEES Information supplied to John Donovan Hi John, Find attached the Names of the NECONDE 115. For confidentiality, we pulled out their surnames. Their full names and surnames have been forwarded to the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria for his info and action. [...]

FROM OUR ARCHIVES… Financial Times: How Shell changed its culture and lost its way By Ian Bickerton Published: June 17 2004 21:36 Posted 18 June 2004 It is rare to find Royal Dutch/Shell in openly confessional mood. Yet as Jeroen van der Veer, its managing chairman, stood with the applause of the oil group’s 400 [...]

(Photo from the article Royal Dutch Shell, Tony Blair and Muammar Gaddafi) Email purportedly sent on 14 June 2012 by Shell Libya staff to senior Shell managers. The email is in reaction to Shell’s recent decision to terminate its exploration contracts in Libya. Shell apparently preferred to deal with Mad Dog Gaddafi. THE EMAIL From: [...]

From our Archives, June 2004… Business-Standard.com: Shell to shift IT jobs to India, Malaysia PTI / Houston June 08, 2004 In order to improve quality and save $850 million annually beginning in 2008, Shell Oil Co is cutting 600 to 800 information technology jobs in the USA and offshoring most of these jobs to India [...]

Friday June 8, 2012 A union says the closure of Shell’s Sydney oil refinery will lead to job losses, despite the company saying employees can be redeployed. The company on Thursday informed the 275 employees and at least 100 contractors at the Clyde refinery, in Sydney’s west, that operations will stop from September 30. Shell [...]

Oil company Shell will close a Sydney refinery in September, creating uncertainty for up to 275 employees and at least 100 contractors. Thursday June 7, 2012 Oil company Shell will close a Sydney refinery in September, creating uncertainty for up to 275 employees and at least 100 contractors. The company on Thursday informed staff at [...]

ARTICLE FROM OUR ARCHIVES: The global IT workforce at Shell, which totals 9,300, will fall by between 20% and 30% by 2006, with several hundred UK IT jobs at risk. ComputerWeekly.com: Shell IT staff will be well placed to find new jobs By Daniel Thomas Tuesday 4 May 2004 Shell IT staff who leave as [...]

LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT OF NIGERIA FROM THE DELTA RIGHTS GROUP OF OVER 100 FORMER SHELL EMPLOYEES By John Donovan Printed below is a letter recently sent to the President of Nigeria by The Delta Rights Group, a group of over 100 former Shell employees who allege that they are the victims of deceit, trickery [...]

Rich Karlgaard, Forbes Staff This article originally appeared in the Apr. 23, 2012 issue of Forbes magazine. This year will likely be the first time in history that a company tops $500 billion in sales. Two oil companies are good bets to pass the mark: the U.S.’ ExxonMobil and the U.K.-registered, Netherlands-headquartered Royal Dutch Shell. [...]

Some Shell employees complained on their website Royaldutchshellplc.com that a ‘Swiss Mafia’ is running the group. “Meanwhile, staff flocked to Royaldutchshell.com to attack the group’s management.” “Influential–you bet. The Donovans and their blog are regularly quoted in the mainstream media–no doubt that the father-and-son team is an ongoing headache for Shell.” By John Donovan We [...]