Topics regarding layoffs at Shell Oil

Topics regarding layoffs at Shell Oil

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.

Project Unleash

Looks like contracts and procurement are getting a resizing? Is this worldwide? Next comes Speed 26 to run you over.

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 ?

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 

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 

Rule 70

What the he-l is rule 70? I keep hearing it mentioned and I feel like an id--t for not knowing what it is. Can somebody enlighten me, please?

CEO bonus for cost cutting

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/mar/25/shell-cuts-costs-spending-ceo-bonus-pay-oil-company

Capital Markets Day

Seems based on the earliest indication and messaging from Wael to be an anti climax. Returning value to shareholders and focus on profitability and reducing costs…..everything we have heard before. So after all this waiting no indication of the... — read more 

Mobility Retail

How much money does mobility really make ? Retail for o&g has always been a low revenue more to promote brand type business. Shell is pretty solidified in the brand space, we need to make real money. Why are we investing in EV charging and electric... — read more 

Q2 Layoffs?

As we say goodbye to Q1 any thoughts on whether Q2 will be a harsher lay-off environment than Q1?

Let’s Have Fun - CMD ‘25 Predictions

We’re 5 days out from CMD 2025. Let’s have some fun with this. Predictions? Points for humor (mentions of Trading and LNG too obvious and not fun enough).

State of Emergency Ni--r Delta

Far removed from most of you but Rivers State where the oil and gas predominantly is has declared a State of Emergency with pipelines being attacked and a generally very negative deteriorating situation. Strangely..or predictably the company seems... — read more 

SPS Share Award

How many shares were awarded (not vested) in 2025 for 2024 performance at each job grade?

Have cloud and AI paid off?

Shell, like many oil companies, moved a lot of their IT and data infrastructure to public cloud. Many AI were projects were also santioned. Have those intiatives paid off or been a negative ROI? Was on-prem better than the cloud?

Great News! More Divestment

Zoe announced that SPDC is sold. We have the best executive committee don’t we folks. They know nothing but cutting and by god are they good at it. Cut cut cut. Hopefully we can finish divesting all of our assets and firing all employees except for... — read more 

Any future for IT in Shell USA ?

I'm an IT grad, is there any future for a long term career here? I have some senior mentors, that were impacted in the last round. What IT field will be most successful at shell?

Workin With Pride

There’s been some discussion about “pride”, or lack of it, on this forum. The definition of pride includes …”a feeling of deep pleasure or satisfaction derived from one's own achievements, the achievements of those with whom one is closely... — read more 

YL lacking spirituality

In the most recent All Staff Standup, did anyone catch YL admitting that he struggled with being in touch with his spiritual side? I’ve been reflecting on that quite a bit over the past week. I think he is making some choices that make sense on paper... — read more 

Super Obvious - You Saw It Here First

Step 1 - More clearly separate disparate lines of businesses - IG from UP, T&S from D/R Step 2 - Then, lift and shift P&T into the relevant businesses Step 3 - Then, move to a model of businesses functioning much much more independently, controlling... — read more 

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