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We at Shell launched our program to provide schooling aid to the kids of skilled labours of our construction site workers on 17th July. Next in line is the education program for the unskilled labours on the site :-).

14th July 2008

We successfully completed the project of installing first Modular Canopy in the history of Shell. And thereby making life of construction workers 'safe and simple'.

Are You a Citizen of the World?

You Are a Citizen of the World

Whenever possible, you try to pay attention to what's going on in the world. You are truly interested in all people and countries, no matter how far away from you they are. You try to learn, travel, and understand. Being a part of the whole world is important to you, and you're always working to be more internationally focused.

Are You a Citizen of the World?

Are You a Winter Person or a Summer Person?

You Are a Winter Person

You are calm, serious, and focused. You're the type of person who appreciates the quiet and calm. Winter is the perfect time for you to get cozy and work on a hobby. Summer is a bit too hectic for you. You like the dead of winter... preferably with a roaring fire inside.

Are You a Winter Person or a Summer Person?

Project...

A Girl can change your Goal

Avoid using mobile while driving

Wherever u go, our network follows………………

Results - How will I die ? --- Scary though

How will I die? Your Result: You will die in a car accident.   Please, continue to buckle up, and try not to speed. More likely than not, it will happen very randomly and quickly. Occasionally, this result stands for death in a plane crash. Do not fear transportation. Avoid becoming a hermit, you cannot escape fate.
You will die in a nuclear holocaust.
You will die from a terminal illness.
You will die while having sex.
You will die in your sleep.
You will die of boredom.
You will be murdered.
You will die while saving someone's life.
How will I die? Create a Quiz

The Three Question Personality Test

Your Personality Is

Idealist (NF) You are a passionate, caring, and unique person. You are good at expressing yourself and sharing your ideals. You are the most compassionate of all types and connect with others easily. Your heart tends to rule you. You can't make decisions without considering feelings. You seek out other empathetic people to befriend. Truth and authenticity matters in your friendships. In love, you give everything you have to relationships. You fall in love easily. At work, you crave personal expression and meaning in your career. With others, you communicate well. You can spend all night talking with someone. As far as your looks go, you've likely taken the time to develop your own personal style. On weekends, you like to be with others. Charity work is also a favorite pastime of yours.

The Three Question Personality Test

The Road Trip Test

The Road Trip of Your Life

You see romantic love as what's most important in life. A deep connection with someone else is the primary thing you crave. You often find yourself rushing through life. You don't take as much time as you'd like to enjoy the little things. You are all about risk and randomness in your life. You travel off the beaten path... in fact, you're often the one carving the way! You are able to find a fairly healthy balance between work and play. You work when you need to, but you never let yourself burn out. In another life, you could have been a great artist. You trust your creative instincts enough to let them lead you.

The Road Trip Test

How Sarcastic Are You?

You Have Your Sarcastic Moments

While you're not sarcastic at all times, you definitely have a cynical edge. In your opinion, not all people are annoying. Some are dead! And although you do have your genuine moments, you can't help getting your zingers in. Some people might be a little hurt by your sarcasm, but it's more likely they think you're hilarious.

How Sarcastic Are You?

Other Books

The only books that I have read till date in my life (other than academics), and its almost a year since I read last one.

On the Shelf

I am not the kind of guy who is into reading n stuff, but this one is given/suggested by Line Manager, so is on the shelf now :-)

Funda in Life

this one is quite simple and straight forward, one of my senior colleague here in Shell taught me, "Life mein tension lene ka nahi, tension dene ka". Just follow this and enjoy life :)

Crude prices Vs Pump prices

Everyone these days is baffled by the not so recent (immaterial though) fuel price hike by government, blaming government and Oil Marketing companies left and right. Being the guy in the Oil industry I feel very angry over the public response on this
issue. On the contrary my ex-Manager never felt so, he said "you need to educate the guy first and then if he commits mistake you have right to act tough". Going by the very same logic many people here in our country are still very much unaware of the rationale behind the proce hike.
Some background on the prices, mid last year when a Barrel of crude oil costed somewhere around 60-70$, the pump price set by the market was in tandem with international crude price. Suddenly the crude price started shooting towards north due many reasons, to say the least, Demand-Supply funda. Oil exploring companies went on increasing crude price, developing countries didn't reflect any low on demand, result, increasing supply with furthermore increased price. Its not only the masses who are to be blamed for the ever increasing demand, government also plays a crucial role, untill they keep a check on the prices, doesn't let people feel the pinch that international market is experiencing how would public realise.
Today the barrel of crude has crossed 145$, more than double of what it was an year ago during this time. And on the other hand have a look at the pump price at the retail stations in our country !!!. You can't keep this biased or disbalanced model
of pricing for long, afterall everyone is in the market for business, may be the tolerance limits are different for different firms. Had government followed the trend steadily with the crudem surprises could have been avoided along with check on
demand.
And also not to forget the pricing mechanism for the pump price, more than 50 % of the price is made up of central/state taxes and duties, government doesn't want to reduce these in order to bring down the pump price because in doing so they will
loose a major chunk of their revenues, and the irony is that Oil companies are blamed for the high prices (which are no where even near the break even price considering the current crude price). And even if governemnt do want to reduce the taxes and duties there will be clashes on central and state level, thanks to over political system.
This till part of the story I have not mentioned anything about the treatment that NOC(National Oil Company) and private Oil marketing companies get here. Even though so called liberal government's claim to be providing "level playing field" for the
Oil marketing companies but they subsidise only NOCs. And even after the subsidies NOCs have incurred humongous losses. Some serious rethinking is required at the Ministry level.
Coming to my company now, Shell. We at Shell are not going to step back from here in India. We are hopeful that things can't continue like this for long and ground conditions will change sooner than later. People keep on asking me, why is Shell increasing if you are loosing so much (from news : loss of 16-17 rs/lit on petrol and 28-29 rs/lit on diesel on current pump price of NOCs) ? First of all we are not following the pricing set by government, because we have almost stopped selling main grade fuel, we only sell Shell Branded Premium fuel and we are free to price it.
Secondly, Shell is investing here for long term, afterall its not any local company ;-), afterall the economy of the developing countries are on roll, so its the place to be in for all other majors in many different fields. And last but not
least, we at Shell have got the tremendous response from the customer here during the days when there was balance between crude price and pump price, customer used to come back running to Shell pumps because of our QQS (quality, quantity & service), and we are more than 100% confident to win back those valued customers when the market situations change. And in all markets where we are operating currently, we have registered our presence in both communities, i.e. competitors and customers.
So for the time being, no looking back, heading strong towards FUTURE :-)

One Year on...

Me completed 1 year in Shell this June. It had been quite a change from Schlumberger, not only in terms of moving from Service sector to Client side but also moving Upstream Oil Industry to Downstream.
Experience till now has been quite good. Though work culture and work itself is totally different from Schlumberger but there's one similarity which was very rightly point out by my boss here and I tend to agree with him (in my own interest :P). He says that in jobs like this you may not enhance your technical knowledge but you develop lots of skills which can be learnt in any school :-), kinda gives feel good factor.