Ashley Sanders

84 Church Road Sundridge Kent TN14 6EA

E mail [email protected]

11th February 2013

Ashley Sanders Chervon Texaco 1 Westferry Circus Canary Wharf London E14 4HA

Dear Mr Sanders

This letter is in follow up to our telephone conversation this morning. It relates to employment by Gulf Oil Corporation and promises made over pensions.

I was first employed by Gulf Oil Corporation, at Insco Limited in Bermuda around March 1978. I was put on the expat payroll, but I could not enter the US pension scheme and stock options as I was not a US citizen. The promise was for a pension as if I was on the US scheme. On 1st April 1981 I was transferred to the UK international payroll as I could be part of the UK pension scheme.

From Bermuda I was transferred to the USA on a L1 visa dated 25th June 1982 after that I was dismissed on the spot 31st July 1983. I was left in the position of selling a house and moving my wife and three small children back to the UK as I had no legal basis to stay in the USA. You claimed under US law that I was a US employee and you could fire me on the spot.

I was compelled to bring action against you based on the whistleblower laws. I could not bring action against you in the UK as I had never worked in the UK.

Eventually I left the USA in 1984 and the lawyer came to a very unjust solution as I was still out of pocket. Secondly you refused to give me any reference and your claim was that I had not worked hard enough. In December 1987 you refunded my contribution to the UK scheme as I had only been in it for less than five years.

Several years afterwards I went back to Bermuda and meet Paul Booth who had left Chevron employment and discovered that we had all been wrongly put on the UK pension scheme as none of us had ever worked in the UK. Under the terms of the Pension plan which is regulated by the Inland Revenue it had restrictions and I assume that adjustments were made for the other employees. There is no doubt in my mind that Gulf Oil knew about this issue when I signed my settlement agreement as I had been in touch with the Trustees to try and clarify who was my employer. Was it Gulf UK or Gulf USA? There is however another reason I am writing to you associated with Mental Health. I was always left with the impression that I lost my job by not working hard enough and secondly my wife was always unhappy with coming back to the UK at the age of 40 to a country she had never lived in before. As a result I looked and found employment back in Holland

With out going into this in too much detail, I had a mental breakdown in 1999 and in 2001 my wife tried self harming. Eventually we both stopped medical treatment in 2005. I did contact you in 2006 about the pension and had a letter from Richard J Remley. (Copy attached) They were some other issue involved as well associated with people cheating in particular the Rotterdam Police.

In 2011 I had an event which involved me going back to Doctors and has open my eyes even further as to why I was sick in 1999 as I was not aware of the functions of the subconscious brain. As a result of events I was forced to spend my Christmas 2011 and New Year in a NHS hospital called Priority House in Maidstone. One year later I am still trying to get the problem resolved with the NHS. We come up with the issue of court action, which have been dictated by my experience in the USA. If you do not take legal action you get left without anything. Last week I have been reading Dr T Cantopher book called Depressive Illness, the curse of the Strong. If you just read the first chapter, you will understand why I am writing. You can condition people to go on working harder and harder until they blow a fuse.

I am therefore requesting that Chevron who took over all Gulf Oil Corporation assets and liabilities start to reopen my case. Hence my wish to speak to people in the UK and or the USA as I am not duty bound to stay with a settlement agreement which was obtained in a rather dubious way.

Yours truly,

G.E.Paul Collins