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A Good Samaritan - June 2008
At 1:30am, whilst driving home to Geelong from Newport after completing a night shift, Shell Logistics B-double fuel delivery driver, Brendan Johnston, noticed a fireball coming from a house in Geelong. MORE
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A personal pledge - Safety Day - June 2008
Pledging to make a small change. That is what everyone was asked to do on Safety Day 2008 on 11 June, which was all about taking personal responsibility for our own and others' safety. MORE
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A view from above - June 2008
Malcolm Brinded, Executive Director Exploration and Production, visited Australia last month and spoke with a large contingent of Shell Development Australia (SDA) staff and Joint Venture (JV) Secondees at The Melbourne Hotel in Perth. MORE
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Australia's First New Truck Stop in 10 years - June 2008
The grand opening of the first truckstop to be built in Australia for more than 10 years was enthusiastically celebrated by Shell staff and customers on April 2, 2008. The Commercial Road Transport Team (CRT) were on-site in Goondiwindi, Queensland to mark this significant and exciting achievement. MORE
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Back from the Sahara - June 2008
Cliff McKinley, Human Resources Manager Shell Logistics, recently completed the 2008 edition of the Marathon des Sables (MdS) in the south Moroccan Sahara desert and it proved to be one of the toughest in its 23 year history. MORE
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Be a science hero in your Child's school! - June 2008
Shell parents and grandparents of primary school children attending school in metro Melbourne have been offered the opportunity to bring the Shell Questacon Science Circus to their child's school - and thus make a hero of themselves! MORE
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Biofuels Part 1 - Part of the future energy mix - June 2008
Shell Australia has the belief that the pressing need to mitigate the effects of climate change and reduce emissions must be met by a range of energy challenge initiatives. MORE
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Biofuels Part 2 - Increasing our investment - June 2008
In response to the pressing need to mitigate the effects of climate change and reduce emissions, Shell has quadrupled investment in sustainable sourcing of biofuels research in the last year. MORE
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Biofuels Part 3 - In Australia and New Zealand - June 2008
Shell Australia and Shell New Zealand believe that biofuels have a role to play in the future energy mix in these countries. MORE
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Cleaning up Carbon - June 2008
In association with Shell, the CNBC TV network hosted the first of its four-part 'Questions for the future' (QFTF) television series in Perth in April and a panel of Australian experts debated the topic of cleaning up carbon. MORE
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Community spirit shines at Shell Logistics in Pinkenba - June 2008
On March 28, 2008, Roger, a diabetic who works at HELP Enterprises at Eagle Farm in Pinkenba, finished work and got on his bike to start his one hour cycle home. MORE
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Eastlink: Austalia's largest road project - June 2008
Following the completion of 88 bridges, the planting of over 500,000 trees and the paving of a massive one million tonnes of asphalt, Australia's largest ever road construction project, Melbourne's Eastlink, will soon be open to the public. MORE
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Editorial: This month in Shell World Oceania - June 2008
Thank you for your fantastic response to the first edition of Shell World Oceania, the new on-line magazine for Shell employees in the Oceania region. MORE
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First Chinese-built LNG carrier - June 2008
The North West Shelf Venture participants celebrated a milestone at the Hudong-Zhonghua shipyard in Shanghai, China on April 3, 2008 with a naming ceremony for the first Chinese-built liquefied natural gas (LNG) carrier. MORE
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Fuels, Lubricants & CRT National Sales Conference 2008 - June 2008
Twin Waters in Queensland welcomed 170 Shell delegates over three days to the Commercial Fuels, Lubricants and Commercial Road Transport (CRT) National Sales Conference, in late February. MORE
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Goal Zero - Mt Maunganui celebrates a twenty year milestone - June 2008
Shell's Terminal in Mount Maunganui on New Zealand's North island, recently recorded an impressive twenty years without a Lost Time Incident (LTI). MORE
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Going the extra mile - June 2008
During the period of very high rainfall in North Queensland earlier this year, nothing seemed to dampen the spirits and willingness of local Shell Logistics employees to go the extra mile for their customers, one customer in particular, Xstrata. MORE
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Gulf of Mexico: TLPs - June 2008
In 1987 industry pundits were dubbing the Gulf of Mexico the "Dead Sea" of exploration. Oil was around $20 a barrel, and drilling in 600 metres (2,000 feet) of water seemed impossible if not ridiculous to most, yet Shell continued to acquire deepwater acreage. MORE
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Helcion joins the Shell fleet - June 2008
A new oil products/chemicals carrier was named on May 16, 2008, at Sembawang Shipyard in Singapore. MORE
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