Folks, those of you who worked as technical SME in the P&T organization, and are currently working outside Shell, kindly help me out. How is the job market in Canada or US for Shell SMEs? Do other companies recognize our technical expertise? If I... — read more
European environmental activist will accelerate the move to the US for Shell
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/may/13/dutch-climate-campaigners-vow-to-take-shell-to-court-again
Who You Know or What You Know?
Landing a job, working, developing skills and moving up is not a solo sport. Regardless of an organization’s size, relationships with bosses, peers, subordinates and external contacts are all key. Is your career success and employment happiness... — read more
Interesting plot
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/ranked-the-worlds-50-most-valuable-companies-in-2025/
AI-Driven IT Solution Development Framework for a Multinational Oil and Gas Company
System Architecture The proposed system is a multi-agent framework where each agent is tailored to a specific role, coordinated by an Orchestrator agent. The architecture ensures collaboration, scalability, and adaptability to industry-specific... — read more
Employee count Shell vs. Exxon
Exxon financial report 2024 gives their employee count as 61000 and defines an employee as the one who is entitled for employee benefits. There is no mention of number of temporary employees or contractors being employed by Exxon. Shell financial... — read more
Why So Much Continued Angst In Shell?
What ever happened to running a steady ship? The need for adjustments and tweaks is always necessary to react to external forces. But is it really productive and healthy for long-term corporate health to keep hacking at the organization? We don’t... — read more
IDT future
So the news has been announced. IDT directly reports to CEO now. What do we all make of this?
P&T 2026
Why nobody talk about the announcement of p&t integration in BL, and it will happen without job losses. Why all posts here only negative
Collet, please change the GOA Leadership
There are a lot of petty, narrow-minded folks in GOA/GOM leadership. Collet, please have a massive change in the senior leaders. This group is absolutely a club of protect your own and forget about right and wrong types. My favorite experience is... — read more
Is Shell looking to only hire Engineering Graduates in the US moving forward
I saw a job post on Shell's website for Shell Graduate Program in Houston. Do you think they will only hire Engineering Graduates moving forward in... — read more
Gretchen...laid off.
Follows Zoe and others. Collette is now President and EVP GoA. Wael is disciplined and consistent on cuts...gotta give him that.
Here we go again... Shell is studying merits of buying BP, Bloomberg News reports
Wael will likely need to pursue further divestments or accelerate those already in motion to help fund the takeover, should it move forward. Alternatively, Shell could issue more shares as part of the deal, similar to the BG Group acquisition, where... — read more
Thoughts on OPEC Meeting on May 3rd
OPEC has moved up their meeting for May 3rd. Thoughts on whether they can reach a consensus on production cuts or are we going to see a full blown battle for market share?
Should Wael get sacked for share buy back at top of the market
It’s clear the money he spent on buying back shares would have been better kept on the balance sheet for the next downturn. To actually invest in real projects. He went for short term gain and prioritised his own bonus and it’s unravelling. As... — read more
What did you learn from Robin’s town hall today?
I learned absolutely nothing except for continuous cost cutting.
What has determined long term success for most Shell employees
I'm of the belief that western white collar workers in non-consulting companies deserve to lose their jobs to outsourcing and automation because they don't "pay it forward". What do I mean by this? In most western countries, there is almost this... — read more
Eerie silence on job cuts….
Very little said about job cuts for the moment…but is this just the calm before the storm…the same old playbook based on cutting endlessly to boost some illusion of profitability through cutting and laying off instead of investing in the core... — read more
ACHIEVING AMERICAN ENERGY DOMINANCE
“White House Press Release: President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order reinvigorating America’s beautiful clean coal industry. April 2025” So - is it time for Shell to buy up all those divested coal pits and mines that Shell Mining Company... — read more
WSJ - Big Oil Is Offshoring Its Prized Engineering Jobs to India
Chevron, BP, others moving work to the country, where engineers are paid salaries about a third or fourth of U.S. counterparts’ https://www.wsj.com/business/energy-oil/big-oil-is-offshoring-its-prized-engineering-jobs-to-india-2e487fd0 Without... — read more
Office Laptop Productivity
For those in the know, does IT monitor laptop activity, and location... Asking for a friend? Also have seen videos where teams activity can easily be tracked.
Annual shareholder meeting
Just a reminder, you can vote against certain directors if you take the time to vote. Gives you that small feeling of protest, who knows if enough of us do it maybe it will get noticed.
apparently they don't like us
https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1js4ha75x
Bulgaria, Shell sign contract for Black Sea gas and oil exploration
Is this a brilliant play for untapped gas reserves or asking for trouble in what is basically a war zone? After all, the Ukraine/Russia conflict wasn’t fully settled on or before 20 January 2025 like someone promised.
Shell staff has a spending problem, not an earning problem
With the increasing anxiety of layoffs and outsourcing across the oil and gas industry, should staff that are not engineers or scientist reduce expenses to where they could live off a fast food/retail job salary?
Another bad news for Shell folks in US and TT!
https://trinidadexpress.com/newsextra/dragon-gas-deal-dies-pm-says-us-has-revoked-licence/article_933c90f4-ff11-47cb-8017-d0f1bdb068ea.amp.html
Holy cr-p - 45Q Act Repeal
If you don’t know - that’s a US law which gives tax credits for carbon capture - which is its only revenue source at the moment. carbon capture industry would be gone overnight. zero profit. and shell bet so much on it growing lol.
Will Wael Protect Shell's Margins
How will Wael react to the tariffs? Is everything on the table to protect Shell's margins?
Project Unleash
Looks like contracts and procurement are getting a resizing? Is this worldwide? Next comes Speed 26 to run you over.
Where does Trump want the 10 Yr Treasury Rate?
The 10 year treasury rate is currently sitting at 4.00%. What rate does Trump want the 10 yr at? For Context: Pre 2008 GFC: 5.02% Low Post 2008 GFC ex Covid: 1.47%
Does Trump want $50-$55 WTI Crude Prices
I'm thinking Trump wants $50-$55 WTI Crude prices based on his first term. Anyone disagree? Do you think we stay above $55 for the remainder of 2025?
He is only capable of one thing.
Wael lays off 20% when oil price is high - now he’s waiting for it to fall so that he can do another re-org. Looking at oil price trends, he might not have too long to wait. Still, he’ll get his multi million dollar pay packet and still not no... — read more
Shell Exiting Chemicals Business
🐳 🦢 is all in on O&G and they’ve finally admitted that the chemicals business isn’t worth keeping. Shell wants to be a trading and energy company with only 4 trading hubs (refineries). No plans yet what they’ll actually do with chemicals but it won’t... — read more
C&P Reorg
What % of people were told today "adios" as C&P reorg ?
You can be sure of Shell?
You can be sure it's He-l.
Share buy back is too out of control
According to the annual report in 2024, Shell spent $13.9 Billion on share buy backs and only $8.7 Billion on dividends! In other words, for an ADS share the dividend could have been $7.14 per ADS share!!! That's 257%. Generally, the shares... — read more
Does Shell want to become an Energy Trading House
Does anyone feel like Shell wants to become an energy trading business only with strategic joint ventures? I wonder if they want to turn into a business similar to Vitol which has less than 3500 employees but does over $300 billion in revenue. The... — read more
Shell hub in India…. Now we are doing it too..
Chevron here…. What does your India hub look like? IT only? Petrochemical?
Next cuts
so more structured cuts...what does this mean. Where will we find the additional cuts from, another reorg for all the business units that have just had a reorg? Will P&T be where the cuts happen, chemicals?
Agentic AI Use Cases at Shell
How do you think Agentic AI will be used at Shell? When you think about the current jobs at Shell, what tasks or complete job roles do you see Agentic AI helping to automate or help make more efficient with some human oversight? What jobs at Shell... — read more