I think Shell Malaysia Trading and other Shell companies in Malaysia is not doing well the last 3 years.
I estimated up to 10% reduction in their downstream fuel and lub business. With the global slump in oil prices, their once
money machine upstream business will also be greatly affected in the next 5 years where oil prices will go down to as low
as USD35/barrel for prolong period. it is inevitable that they need to cut cost and find the best brain in their IT centre doing mainly Enterprise Resource Planning Work.

Lets be prepared for the worst, I have a bleak outlook for O & G sector in specific and Malaysia business in general.
Shell Retail business has also been bad for many years. NGV vehicles are here and electric cars will also emerge soon.

What SRC said in the letter is to close the refinery and turn it into only storage if refining margin and sales drop, that would
means the capacity is less than 80% and every barrel of crude oil SRC refine end up in loss. The cost reduction SRC mentioned
means the marketing and business support side, then comes the assets sales (like unused equipment and unprofitable Petrol
stations) then refining operation. If you are non technical staff, like the business mgmt side you are vulnerable.

Health, Safety, Security and the Environment HSSE is needed to show the managers are at work in a otherwise
very quiet / little new work then just doing the routines.

This post has been edited by 2malaysia: Mar 18 2015, 11:32 PM

I never work in MNC like Shell but some of these Shell people I meet always are only confine themselves with
very limited scope of work. I think they have a very specific skills which I find hard to understand in terms of
getting the ultimate job done or saving time.

I think managing people is what all these paperwork is about. How to make the staff work safer, given the higer
knowledge and skills of Shell staff, how to make them actually work for the company and not on other things like
doing things the staff like to do etc..