Tag: Royal Dutch Shell

High-Profile Executives’ Resignations Rock Shell

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  Royal Dutch Shell has been hit by the departure of several high-profile executives in clean energy amid a split over how far and fast the oil giant should shift towards greener fuels, Financial Times (FT) has reported. Marc van Gerven, who headed the solar, storage and onshore wind businesses at Shell, Eric Bradley, who worked in Shell’s distributed energy division, and Katherine Dixon, a leader in its energy transition strategy team, have all left the company in recent weeks. Dorine Bosman, Shell’s vice-president for offshore wind, is also due…

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Shell sacks 9,000 in Cost-Cutting major Shake-Up

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Oil supermajor, Royal Dutch Shell, has slated 9,000 staff for mass sack as part of a major shake-up to cut costs and raise annual savings of up to $2.5bn (£1.9bn) by 2022. The company, which announced this on Wednesday, declared that around 1,500 of the staff slated for mass sack have agreed to take voluntary redundancy this year – by the end of 2022. The restructuring , a report by SkyNews read, is part of the company’s efforts to adapt to a low-carbon future and becoming more “streamlined”, with the…

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