Word: shellful
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...seldom found where it is most needed, and seldom most needed where it is found," says L.E.J. Brouwer, senior managing director of Royal Dutch/Shell. Brouwer speaks from sometimes painful experience. Though the Shell group is second in the world oil industry (after Jersey Standard) and the largest industrial enterprise of any kind outside the U.S., it has never been as skillful-or as lucky-at finding oil as some of its rivals. It must buy a high 19% of its crude from other companies. Once a serious weakness, that need is also a source of strength since it forces Shell...
...Each day Shell moves well over 5,000,000 bbl. of oil from wells to refineries and chemical plants, turning the crude into a bewildering range of products that are marketed in more than 100 countries. Last week Shell had bracing news for stockholders at annual meetings held concurrently in London and The Hague. In 1969, when many another oil company was scissored by rising costs and falling profits, Shell's earnings rose 7.9%, to $1 billion, while sales climbed only 5.7%, to $9.7 billion. This success resulted from Shell's determined attention to market research and from...
...Shell can move its oil from well to customer at remarkably low cost...
...reason for the payoff is the managing directors' decision seven years ago that the most economical tankers would be 210,000-tonners. They were big enough to be highly efficient, but small enough to operate in ports then being planned. Shell ordered 22 of the behemoths in the mid-1960s, when prices were 40% lower than now. Shell transports oil for significantly less than it would have to pay with smaller tankers. It is also one of the few oil majors with a fleet big enough to compensate for the closing of the Suez Canal...
...Shell has also pruned costs by spending heavily on oil processing. Of some 75 refineries, a dozen have been built and 40 expanded since 1960, and they are controlled partly by computers, which match production schedules with the varying demands of worldwide markets. Automation has increased productivity. Since 1959, Shell has shed 23% of its workers and almost doubled sales...