Shell chairman deeply ashamed about reserves fraud
From our October 2004 Shell News Archive
London Evening Standard: Market Report: SPEAKING OUT
"All of us are deeply ashamed about what happened about the reserves, but we are determined to regain our position. — Shell chairman Jeroen van der Veer on the oil giant's attempts to put its misdemeanours behind it"
Market Report
By Mickey Clark
27 Oct 2004
"I'm convinced we have a lot of strengths. All of us are deeply ashamed about what happened about the reserves, but we are determined to regain our position."
— Shell chairman Jeroen van der Veer on the oil giant's attempts to put its misdemeanours behind it.
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Financial Times: Not clammed shut
"Jeroen van der Veer remains refreshingly candid even after all Royal Dutch/Shell has been through this year.": "We are like the schoolboy standing in the corridor outside the classroom.
By Clay Harris
Published: October 27 2004
Jeroen van der Veer remains refreshingly candid even after all Royal Dutch/Shell has been through this year.
Asked at a conference about the International Energy Agency's call for governments, regulators and corporations to unify energy reserves accounting, he said: "We are like the schoolboy standing in the corridor outside the classroom. I don't think it is for us to lead the charge of new rules on reserve accounting, we shall leave that to others. But whatever the rules are, we will comply with them."
He also had a word for some of his best customers, drivers of petrol-guzzling sports utility vehicles. "I cannot understand how these people drive their SUVs to shopping at Wal-Mart and then complain about high oil prices."
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