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Group Unified Accident Reporting Database

Abstract Significant advances have been made recently in enhancing the standard of safety within Shell companies. Safety has been raised to a status equal to other primary business objectives. It is widely accepted that accident prevention is part of good business practice and that a safe operation normally is an efficient operation. Safety programs are being widely implemented that involve all employees, from top management to the contract staff, and the benefits are being realized. The effectiveness of any safety program, however, must be monitored continuously. Injury and accident statistics play an important role as a prime indicator of safety performance. Statistics form part of the safety management process, indicating the success of the safety programs being implemented and highlighting areas of weakness. Statistical information relating to the number and frequency of accidents, significant as it is, tells us little about how the accidents occur or about how to improve the intrinsic safety of the operations. More detailed information on accident causes and lessons derived from the investigation of noninjurious accidents and near-hits are required for this analysis and for the setting of appropriate remedial actions.

States connect jobs and amenities

National Civic ReviewVolume 77, Issue 1 p. 3-7 Article States connect jobs and amenities Richard Thornburgh, Richard Thornburgh Richard Thornburgh is Director of the Institute of Politics of the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University and former Governor of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. This article is a transcript of his remarks to the National Conference on Civic Renewal, Boston, November 16, 1987; transcription of the proceedings was made possible by a generous grant from the Shell Companies Foundation.Search for more papers by this author Richard Thornburgh, Richard Thornburgh Richard Thornburgh is Director of the Institute of Politics of the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University and former Governor of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. This article is a transcript of his remarks to the National Conference on Civic Renewal, Boston, November 16, 1987; transcription of the proceedings was made possible by a generous grant from the Shell Companies Foundation.Search for more papers by this author First published: January 1988 https://doi.org/10.1002/ncr.4100770102 AboutPDF ToolsExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Volume77, Issue1January 1988Pages 3-7 RelatedInformation

Thermoplastic Elastomers

Abstract It is a great pleasure to return to Montreal to receive the Charles Goodyear Medal at this joint meeting of the American Chemical Society, Rubber Division, and the Rubber Chemistry Division, Chemical Institute of Canada. This occasion has given me a delightful opportunity to renew old friendships in both organizations and to visit again my graduate school at McGill. First of all, I thank the Awards Committee and the Executive Committee of the Rubber Division for electing me to this high honor which I share with my many collaborators who were with me during those exciting years, and with the Shell Companies. The subject of the lecture is “Thermoplastic Elastomers,” specifically the triblock copolymers based on styrene and dienes, or hydrogenated dienes. Previously I have used the subtitle, “A Successful Innovation,” where I have defined “innovation” as the successful commercialization of a new technology, process, or product. In this lecture, I shall discuss the background of the innovation, the impact of it upon the thermoplastic elastomer field, and some of the early history of thermoplastic elastomers, which I believe you will find interesting.

People and Organizations Interacting.

Foreword Introduction A Way to Look at Things The 'Project With the Long Breath': Organizational Change in a Tanker Company Organization Change on a North Sea Project From Vertical to Horizontal: New Organizational Principles in a Refinery Redesign in Research: Participative Redesign of Work Organizations Organization Development on the Shop Floor Evolution, Revolution, and the Battle for Survival Organization Design in Canada: Sarnia Chemical Plant Development in Norske Shell's Organization Working Life in Japan A Group in Transition The Cultural Perspective Managing Diversity Index.

THE SHELL COMPANY OF AUSTRALIA LTD v ESSO AUSTRALIA LTD

THE SHELL COMPANY OF AUSTRALIA LTD v ESSO AUSTRALIA LTD

Municipal productivity improvements are a way of life in phoenix

National Civic ReviewVolume 75, Issue 3 p. 147-152 Article Municipal productivity improvements are a way of life in phoenix Marvin Andrews, Marvin Andrews is city manager of Phoenix. This is based on his presentation at the National Conference on Government in Cinicinnati, November 1985. Publication of this article is made possible in part by a grant from the Shell Companies Foundation.Search for more papers by this author Marvin Andrews, Marvin Andrews is city manager of Phoenix. This is based on his presentation at the National Conference on Government in Cinicinnati, November 1985. Publication of this article is made possible in part by a grant from the Shell Companies Foundation.Search for more papers by this author First published: May 1986 https://doi.org/10.1002/ncr.4100750304 AboutPDF ToolsExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onEmailFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Volume75, Issue3May 1986Pages 147-152 RelatedInformation

Would we now a well-governed city if we saw one?

National Civic ReviewVolume 75, Issue 3 p. 142-146 Article Would we now a well-governed city if we saw one? Harry P. Hatry, Harry P. Hatry Harry P. Hatruy is director of the state and local government research program at The Urban Institute. This is based on his presentation at the National Conference on Government in Cinicinnati, November 1985. Publication of this article is made possible in part by a grant from the Shell Companies Foundation.Search for more papers by this author Harry P. Hatry, Harry P. Hatry Harry P. Hatruy is director of the state and local government research program at The Urban Institute. This is based on his presentation at the National Conference on Government in Cinicinnati, November 1985. Publication of this article is made possible in part by a grant from the Shell Companies Foundation.Search for more papers by this author First published: May 1986 https://doi.org/10.1002/ncr.4100750303 AboutPDF ToolsExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Volume75, Issue3May 1986Pages 142-146 RelatedInformation

Rhino and elephant poaching trends in the Selous Game Reserve

In 1981 the Selous Game Reserve, the largest in Africa, harboured the largest elephant and black rhino populations on the continent. The elephant population density was calculated to be very similar during 1976 and 1981 surveys. During the seventies, poaching was minimal due to the inaccessibility of the reserve, but construction of Shell Company oil exploration roads beginning in 1981 can be linked with an increased poaching activity in the area. The depressed economic situation of the country coupled with the rising international prices for ivory and rhino horn contributed to poaching. Results of a survey based on interviews with hunters, staff and clients of the Tanzania Wildlife Corporation and Wildlife Divison staff carried out in 1984 are discuss along with reasons for increased poaching and recommendations to remedy the situation.

THE SUBSURFACE GEOLOGY OF THE WESTERN OFFICER BASIN — RESULTS OF SHELL'S 1980-1984 PETROLEUM EXPLORATION CAMPAIGN

The Officer Basin described in this paper includes four Proterozoic to Lower Palaeozoic sub-basins (Gibson, Yowalga, Lennis, Waigen) which extend in a northwest to southeast belt across 200 000 sq. km of central Western Australia. These sub-basins are bounded by Archaean to Proterozoic basement blocks and are almost entirely concealed by a veneer of Permian and Cretaceous sediments. Depth to magnetic basement locally exceeds eight kilometres.Until recently, information on the sub-surface geology was limited to shallow levels, based on the results of a petroleum exploration campaign in the 1960s and the work of State and Federal Geological Surveys. In 1980, the Shell Company of Australia was awarded three permits (46 200 sq. km) covering the Yowalga and Lennis Sub-basins. The results of 4700 km of seismic data and three deep wildcat wells, combined with gravity, aeromagnetic, Landsat, outcrop and corehole information, has led to a better understanding of the regional subsurface geology.The Lennis Sub-basin appears to contain Lower to Middle Proterozoic sediments, whereas the Yowalga Sub- basin is primarily an Upper Proterozoic to Lower Cambrian sequence which comprises a basal clastic section, a middle carbonate and evaporite sequence and an upper clastic section. Widespread Middle Cambrian basalts cap the Upper Proterozoic to Lower Cambrian prospective sequence. Late Proterozoic uplift resulted in salt- assisted gravity tectonics leading to complex structural styles, especially in the basin axis.Despite oil shows, organic matter in the oil and gas generation windows and reservoir-quality sandstones with interbedded shales, no convincing source rocks or hydrocarbon accumulations have yet been located. The area remains, however, one of the least explored basins in Australia.

Going Private: Minority Freezeouts and Stockholder Wealth

GJOING private restructures corporate ownership by replacing the entire public stock interest with full equity ownership by an incumbent management group. In many going-private transactions, or minority freezeouts as they are frequently called, current managers have majority control of the public corporation and obtain complete equity ownership of the surviving private corporation. In some cases, managers share subsequent equity ownership with outside private investors who help finance the acquisition of publicly held stock. The reorganization of corporate ownership is effected through a variety of legal vehicles, a common example of which is a cash-out merger of the public firm into a shell corporation created expressly for the transaction and wholly owned by the management group. Managerial conflicts of interest in going-private transactions are widely believed to result in unfair treatment of public stockholders (hence the

OIL SPILL PREPAREDNESS IN A TROPICAL OFFSHORE AREA

ABSTRACT The systematic process by which an oil spill preparedness plan was developed for SSB/SSPC operations in the South China Sea used local wind, current, and weather data in a SLIKTRAK model adapted to estimate the spill costs and risks resulting from a well blowout. The model shows that the Sabah and Philippines shores would be likely to be affected, while the Brunei and Sarawak shores have a low probability. The minimum period in which oil will arrive at any shore is three days after the spill. February to early August are likely months in which a spill will arrive at a shoreline. Spills from late August to January are expected to move away from the coast. Mechanical recovery of spilled oil and chemical dispersant spraying from boats is effective from March to September while natural dispersion is enhanced from September to February. The local environmental data and local availability of vessels and resources greatly influence the choice of mechanical cleanup equipment. An ecological marine macrobenthos survey has been carried out in the Sabah and Sarawak coastal waters. The fundamental aim of the program is to develop quantitative data on the current status of selected marine macrobenthic communities in these areas. This data could be used as a reference for comparison against any future surveys so that any environmental effects or modification resulting from oil spills may be assessed. A coastal resources study along the Sarawak coast also was being carried out to determine sensitive areas in order to prioritise the allocation of available oil spill control equipment and resources. Finally, the roles and development of Shell oil spill cooperatives in this region have been based on the tier concept. Under this concept, SSB/SSPC would be primarily responsible for its own spill as the first tier. It is complemented on a reciprocal basis by close cooperation with Brunei Shell as the second tier. The third tier involves the cooperation of the Shell Companies in Southeast Asia—the ROSE scheme.

A Note on the Red Line Agreement

On 31 July 1928 a working agreement was signed setting up the first international consortium to exploit oil resources in the Middle East. The prewar Turkish Petroleum Company (TPC) was reconstituted, joining together the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC), the Royal Dutch Shell Company, the Compagnie Française des Pétroles (CFP), and a five-member American consortium headed by Standard Oil of New Jersey. The four parties each took a 23¾ percent share, with another 5 percent going to C. S. Gulbenkian, an Armenian entrepreneur who had vested rights in the company predating the First World War.1 In 1925 before the final terms of partnership had been settled, the TPC had obtained an oil development concession from Iraq. Included in the TPC articles of association was an ordinance of self-denial, the famous “Red Line” agreement. Under its terms each member of the Turkish Petroleum Company consented not to seek oil rights within the boundaries of the old Ottoman Empire except through the TPC. While any other company could bid for concessions, the Red Line accord—so named because the affected area was delimited by a red line drawn around it on a map—had the effect of suppressing competitive bidding by the most powerful companies in the industry, thus restricting the ability of local regimes to play one company against the other. It was one of the initial cases of oil company cooperation on an international scale.

STEP: Secondary-Tertiary Education Planning: A Summary of the Preliminary report Secondary survey 1975-77

The basic aim of STEP is to use existing information and, where necessary, to collect new data to build up a computer-based information system to determine the flow of students with scientific and non-scientific course andcareer preferences through the Victorian education system into employment. A major objective is to make information available to teachers and others who are responsible for advising secondary students. The patterns discerned from the STEP data should define critical questions for education policy makers and socialscientists to investigate. STEP is concerned with Victorian data but the results should provide an indication of Australia- wide trends, and itis hoped that the projet will stimulate parallel work in other states. The Shell Company of Australia Limited has funded the publication of this excellent report to ensure thatthe urgent questions it raises are brought to the attention of parents and employers, as well as educators and policy makers.

Special Boundary Roles in the Innovation Process

A version of this paper was presented at the Academy of Management meetings, August 1976. The author thanks his colleagues David Lewin, Noel Tichy, and Michael Ginzberg, and an anonymous reviewer forASQ for their helpful comments and criticism. This work was supported by grants from the Center for Research in Career Development at Columbia University and from the Shell Companies Foundation.

A General Pressure Buildup Theory for a Well in a Closed Drainage Area (includes associated paper 6563 )

Pressure buildup analysis, when properly done, yields the same results nomatter which of the conventional methods is used. As illustrated here with aclosed square, general interpretation equations may be derived that are correctfor closed drainage regions of any shape. Introduction In 1935, Theis1 showed that buildup pressures in a shut-in waterwell should be a linear function of the logarithm of the time ratio(t+?t)/?t, and that the slope of the line is inverselyproportional to the mean formation effective permeability. Muskat discussedpressure buildup in oil wells in 1937, and proposed determination of staticpressure by a semilog trial-and-error plot that has been found to be applicableto a variety of buildup cases. In the late 1940's, van Everdingen presented aseries of lectures on well test analysis in the U.S. that related to aclassical study of unsteady flow by van Everdingen and Hurst.3 In1951, Horner4 presented a study of pressure buildup that appears tohave summarized fundamental efforts of a number of pioneering researchers inthe Shell companies. Horner also recommended a semilog buildup curve identicalwith the Theis curve, and presented a method for extrapolation to fully builtup static pressure for a closed circular reservoir. This sort of semilogpressure buildup plot is often referred to in the oil industry as a Hornerplot. About the same time, Miller-Dyes-Hutchinson5 presented ananalysis for buildup when the well had been produced long enough to reachpseudosteady, or true steady state prior to shut-in. Their work indicated thatbuildup pressures should plot as a linear function of the logarithm of shut-intime. As in the Horner plot, the slope of the straight line was shown to beinversely proportional to the permeability to the flowing fluid. It isinteresting that about the same time Jacob6 presented a similarapproach to determine aquifer transmissibility for a water well productiontest. Miller-Dyes-Hutchinson presented several important extensions of builduptheory. One was an initial attempt to apply buildup theory to multiphase flow. This problem was later resolved by Perrine.7 More important to thisstudy, an approach to extrapolation to fully built-up static pressure waspresented for outer boundary conditions of either no flow (closed), or constantpressure (water drive). Thus, by the early 1950's, both Horner and Miller-Dyes-Hutchinson hadpresented methods for determining permeability and static pressure from buildupdata. Although there were similaries - both involved semilog plotting - therewere confusing differences between the methods. Perrine7 presented an excellentreview of this theory in 1956 that clearly indicates the state of understandingat that time. He stated that Horner-type plot (which he referred to as the vanEverdingen-Hurst method) was valid for a new well in a large reservoir, butthat the Miller-Dyes-Hutchinson approach was best for older wells in fullydeveloped fields. The latter is a widely held misconception.

STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL OF CHEMICAL STRUCTURE DATA

Woodstock Agricultural Research Centre, operated by ‘Shell’ Research Ltd, is one of a number of Shell Company laboratories working in the agricultural chemicals field. One of the main functions of Woodstock is the synthesis of new chemical compounds for testing as potential new pesticides and over twenty thousand compounds have already been screened there since the laboratory was set up. A similar number of compounds have been examined at other Shell laboratories so that both chemical and biological data on nearly fifty thousand compounds are now available and are being augmented at a rate of around four thousand each year.

The Occurrence of Ternstroemia (Theaceae) in West Africa

NIGERIA (EASTERN). Degema Prov., Bonny Distr., in the, swamp along the Shell Company line at Papashu fishing village, brackish water, fr. 25 Dec. 1963, Daramola in F.H.L 46932 (K):-tree to 20 ft. [6 m.] high, stem grey, fruits very pale green with red seeds; same locality, fl. 26 Nov. 1964, Daramola in F.H.L 55334 (A, B, BM, BR, FHI, G, K, LISC, P, WAG):tree 12 ft. [3-5 m.] high and about I ft. [o.3 m.] in girth, flowers yellow with 5 sepals and 7 petals, anthers yellow. ANGOLA. Zarie District, Sumba, near R. Congo, at sea-level, 2 Dec. 1921, Gossweiler 8592 (holotype, BM).

The SHELL PHOTOGRAPHIC LIBRARY

Shell companies are involved in two major industries, oil and chemicals, and are active in no less than one hundred countries. The activities themselves are many and varied—oil exploration, oil production, oil transportation (Shell has the world's largest single tanker fleet), oil refining and manufacture, oil distribution and sales. On the chemicals side there are manufacture and marketing. Throughout both fields there is a major research effort to improve methods and products and to find the new products which progress continually demands. Involved in this worldwide operation are over 200,000 people of differing races, nationalities, religions and political affiliations. Shell makes a very positive effort to keep the public informed about its activities through all the means at its disposal, including the Press, publications, employee mazagines, exhibitions, and lectures; and this, of course, results in a constant demand for photographs—photographs to explain, photographs to decorate, photographs to dramatize, and so on. This activity is carried on to a greater or lesser extent in all countries where Shell companies operate, and all of these companies require a source of photographs.

Stenalderfund fra Qatar

Stenalderfund fra Qatar

Contribution to the Study of Deterioration in Automobile Engine Cams and Tappets

During the last few years the cam-tappet problem has become very important because of the continuous increase in the maximum rotational speed of engines for the purpose of increasing power. This necessitates the overloading of the springs in order to offset the inertia effects of the distribution system as a whole; the result of this is to increase the specific pressures of the cam-tappet unit. As the present tendency is to make engines revolve at ever greater speed, it is to be expected that the problem of the behaviour of these components in service will be more and more difficult to solve. There is no doubt that the ideal solution lies in decreasing the inertia forces by giving up the rocker system, and using the arrangement of the overhead camshaft acting directly on the valve stem. For engines with the traditional system of valve action by rockers, the problem of the deterioration of cams and tappets has been studied by Simca on a specially designed testing machine. The laboratory tests thus made have been followed by tests carried out by the Shell Company on engines on the test bench. The present paper sums up the results obtained.