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@Raymond: my commiserations! I escaped the open offices until my retirement. Each time rooms needed to be shared from a certain jobgroup level I made a promotion and had a room to myself. I remember that in 1977 or thereabouts Don Schaefer was the great mover and shaker behind the introduction of open offices. Everyone was against and revolts were imminent, so he lined up a fact finding team of 7 senior people (all jg 1-2 department heads) plus the junior project engineer (jg5) who had to execute the plan, to visit several open offices in Germany. Except for the project engineer they all travelled first class as was the rule on business travel for jg3+. They came back and had to say it was good, provided you built the offices first class. Otherwise it would be a disaster. (They all lied, but arms were twisted…).

In the end BSP succumbed and had a disastrous open office. Rats running along the beams in the ceiling. Few people could concentrate on the work. Managers had their own office.

All capitulated to the gurus and consultants who kept selling the open office space. Then came the roaring 90s and SIEP went open office. Even jg UN (Tiny Tim, may his smoking soul RIP) were sitting in open offices. At around the same time Shell started to go quickly down the drain. Could there be a correlation with open offices?

Sickness leave goes up sharply in open offices. They are good for teamwork in some industries where people have to share ideas and emotions like advertising firms or media companies. It is fine for a short while when people have to get to know each other. But once you start to do some complex engineering and thinking, you need a quiet environment. For HR it is fine, this is simple and routine work.

The Norwegians understood it, they had nice open plan offices and for each a very small office you could sit in if you needed to think.

I genuinely feel sorry for all the people who are forced to do intelligent work in a substandard open office environment.

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Shell, the U.S. not prepared for risks of drilling in Arctic Ocean

Feb 18th, 2014

by John Donovan.

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By Dan Ritzman: Special to The Times: Monday, February 17, 2014

Shell announced a plan to return to the Arctic Ocean this summer, only to have its leases invalidated by a federal court because the company vastly underestimated the environmental risks.

The reality is that drilling in the Arctic Ocean comes with a distinctive set of risks to the environment and would-be drillers. History has shown that where there is drilling, there is spilling.

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Posted in: Alaska, Arctic, Environment, Oil Spill, Royal Dutch Shell Plc, United States.
Tagged: Alaska · Arctic Ocean · Niger Delta · Oil · Royal Dutch Shell Plc · The Seattle Times

Shell’s Asset Purge to Hit UK North Sea

Feb 18th, 2014

by John Donovan.

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By James Burgess: Mon 17 February 2014

Royal Dutch Shell has announced plans to sell three oil and gas assets in the North Sea as the supermajor seeks to divest some $15 billion in assets.

In October 2013, Shell announcedit would begin selling off significant assets in 2014 and 2015 in order to reduce liabilities and improve cash flow.

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Posted in: Gas, Oil, Royal Dutch Shell Plc.
Tagged: Gas · Oil · OilPrice.com · Royal Dutch Shell Plc

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Thursday, February 20, 2014

Article by Jamie Ashcroft published by proactive investors on Feb 20, 2014

Deutsche Bank says it makes ‘strategic sense’ for Shell (LON:RDSB) to sell off assets in the UK and Nigeria, though its analysis doesn’t suggest they would be big money deals.

The German bank said, in a note to investors, that the noise around potential divestments is building and it is becoming clearer which assets will go under the hammer.

Reuters article published LONDON Thu Feb 20, 2014 10:47am GMT

Feb 20 (Reuters) – Anglo-Dutch oil and gas major Shell said on Thursday it has agreed to sell its Italian retail and aviation business to Kuwait Petroleum International.

“The sale is consistent with Shell’s strategy to concentrate Shell’s downstream footprint on a smaller number of assets…

Extract from Bloomberg News article by James Paton Feb 20, 2014 5:53 AM GMT

Woodside Petroleum Ltd. (WPL),Australia’s second-largest oil and gas producer, pressed Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSA) to take action on its A$7.3 billion ($6.6 billion) stake in the company, saying investors want “certainty.”

Extract from article in GAS TODAY published Thu, 20 February 2014

The Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS), Shell Development Australia and INPEX subsidiary INPEX Operations Australia are set to develop comprehensive environmental baselines to monitor the health of waters off North Western Australia.

The partnership also incorporates comprehensive plans for monitoring the marine environment in the unlikely event of loss of containment from either Shell’s Prelude or INPEX’s Ichthys Project wells.

Wednesday, February 19, 2014

Reuters Deals of the day – Mergers and acquisitions: Wed 19 Feb 2014

Daily Times of Nigeria article by Ugochukwu Onyeocha: 19 Feb 2014

Melbourne Herald Sun Article by John Dagge: 19 Feb 2014

THE GUARDIAN: Article by Martin Farrer: Wed 19 Feb 2014

THE AUSTRALIAN: FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Tuesday, February 18, 2014

The Legal Examiner: Article by Tom Young: February 18, 2014

In a story first reported by Reuters’ Mica Rosenberg, nearly all of the major oil producing companies have been accused of defrauding numerous states by double-dipping when passing along the costs of replacing dilapidated and leaking fuel storage tanks.

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Poor Raymond, we have been sitting in open office for more than two years. A JG B is also sitting next to us. All in the pretext of cost saving!

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Shell announced a plan to return to the Arctic Ocean this summer, only to have its leases invalidated by a federal court because the company vastly underestimated the environmental risks.

The reality is that drilling in the Arctic Ocean comes with a distinctive set of risks to the environment and would-be drillers. History has shown that where there is drilling, there is spilling.

Royal Dutch Shell has announced plans to sell three oil and gas assets in the North Sea as the supermajor seeks to divest some $15 billion in assets.

In October 2013, Shell announcedit would begin selling off significant assets in 2014 and 2015 in order to reduce liabilities and improve cash flow.

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