LONDON: Royal Dutch/Shell’s beleaguered boss insisted yesterday that he would not resign over a shock cut in oil reserves, as the Anglo-Dutch company posted fourth-quarter earnings near the bottom of forecasts.
The energy giant rubbed salt in unhappy investors’ wounds with confirmation that its oil and gas production would be flat this year and fall in 2005. But Phil Watts, chairman of the committee of managing directors, was defiant.
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