A Fundamental Betrayal
This post is in response to an article that was posted by World Oil regarding comments by the CEO Ben Van Beurden of Shell Plc at a conference in Europe. He stated,
“It may well be that we have a number of winters where we have to somehow find solutions through efficiency savings, through rationing and as a very, very quick build out of alternatives,” Chief Executive Officer Ben Van Beurden told reporters at a conference in Stavanger, Norway. “That this is going to be somehow easy or over, I think is a fantasy we should put aside -- we should confront the reality.”
I responded to the World Oil article through Twitter with the following comment.
No!
Another viable scapegoat is unacceptable. The ultimate capitulation of accountability here. The individual with more authority and responsibility to have dealt with this long ago! My pinned tweet above was refused by those in power. [Our July 2019 White Paper] Then in nine months they ran the price of oil to negative $40! Declared shale was a lost cause, sold it and focused on the ultimate unaccountability project in an unauthorized manner “clean energy.”
Today’s failure started long ago and we published our solution in August 2012. #failure
First of all, this is not a betrayal by Shell Plc, its investors or employees at any time. This is a comprehensive failure by Ben Van Beurden and his cohort of officers and directors of their “muddle through” club. The fish stinks from the head down. The company has been led off the cliff and now he wants to use the convenient excuse that it's Putin’s fault and consumers should learn to go without. This is not the history and culture of Shell. The investors, employees and annuitants are a group of individuals who have built a company that is the highest standard of which most companies seek. They’ve been betrayed by these self-serving officers and directors who’ve used and abused the industry to the point where the consumer is told to go without?
In light of the history of People, Ideas & Objects since the August 2012 publication of our Preliminary Specification. The people that need to be going without are those that caused this damage and destruction. To blame this catastrophe on someone like Putin, who will only take advantage of any situation he can find, is ridiculous when it’s Ben Van Beurden and his cohort who gave him the gold plated offer to do so.
Don’t let the door hit you on the way out, Ben.
