ALUMNIPUBLISHED FOR SHELL ALUMNI IN THE AMERICAS | WWW.SHELL.US/ALUMNINEWSDECEMBER 2015 CONSERVING MAKING HISTORY FOR DISCOVER GREENSPACE SHELL DEEP WATER ALUMNINEWS ONLINE Shell funds ecological Shell launches the Turritella. assessment at Canada magazine Broadwood. goes ‘green’.

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ALUMNINEWS AlumniNews is published for Shell US and Canada.

Editors: Design: Natalie Mazey and Jackie Panera Production Centre of Excellence Shell Communications The Hague Writer/copy editor: Shell Human Resources: Susan Diemont-Conwell Annette Chavez Torma Communications and Alicia Gomez A WORD FROM OUR EDITORS GO GREEN Sign up to receive the newsletter electronically by At Shell, being a good neighbor is good visiting www.shell.us/alumni. While you’re there, read business. That’s why we lend our support to the latest news and information about Shell. Thank you to those who have already chosen to go green! projects that help to build communities. In this issue of AlumniNews, we’ve brought you stories on two social investment projects. Our investment in an ecological assessment

at Mount Broadwood Conservation Area CONTENTS in British Columbia will help to identify HIGHLIGHTS biological threats, and Shell’s investment in Appomattox advances a multi-use complex in Alberta is helping to 03 meet the much-needed recreational and Shell makes final investment decision for Gulf of Mexico social needs for a diverse community. deepwater development. Investing in community Also in this issue of AlumniNews, we have 04 Shell Place opens its doors. updates on our Arctic exploration activities, a final investment decision in a new Conserving greenspace deepwater development in the Gulf of 05 Shell funds ecological assessment at Broadwood. Mexico and the company’s decision to sell Discover AlumniNews online! its equity in Elba. In our Alumni Features Canada magazine goes ‘green’. section, we show how one alumnus shares his passion for music and how another Engaging with the public serves as ambassador for Honor Flight. 06 Fly offshore from your chair. Shell sells equity in Elba Finally, we have an important announcement Company retains 100% of capacity. about AlumniNews on page 5. Although Shell Canada is discontinuing the print Update on Alaska version of the magazine, alumni can sign up 11 Shell to abandon Burger J well. to receive an easy-to-read online version of AlumniNews. We hope you will take the time Making history for Shell Deep Water to sign up online at www.shell.us/alumni and Shell launches the Turritella. hope that our U.S. subscribers will discover Taking the ‘long view’ the benefits of the online version of the 12 EVP Peggy Montana says goodbye to Shell. magazine as well. Also please make sure to send us story ideas for our Alumni Features Bird’s-eye view section. Contact details can be found at the 13 Shell makes aviation advances. bottom of this page. We look forward to ‘Making others happy’ hearing from you! 14 Alumnus shares passion for music at senior homes. Have a wonderful holiday season! Honoring World War II veterans 15 Alumnus serves as ambassador for Honor Flight Houston. Natalie Mazey and Jackie Panera Editors, AlumniNews magazine

CHECK US OUT ONLINE! STORY IDEAS WELCOME!

Visit www.shell.us/alumni AlumniNews magazine is looking for recent story ideas for our Alumni Features section! In this part of the for everything alumni. magazine, we highlight alumni who are staying active and making a difference in retirement. If you know of someone who would make a great profile for the magazine, please send us his/her phone number Need forms? Want back issues of AlumniNews magazine? Visit our Shell alumni website and email address, along with a brief description of the story idea. To submit story ideas for the U.S., for helpful links and phone numbers and the email [email protected] or mail a letter to Shell Oil Company Communications – Natalie Mazey, latest news on Shell. Also, connect with us by P.O. Box 2463, Houston, Texas 77252-2463. To submit story ideas for Canada, email PublicAffairs- emailing [email protected] to give us [email protected] or mail a letter to Jackie Panera, Shell Canada Limited, 400 4th Avenue S.W., P.O. feedback and tell us what you’d like to see on the site. Box 100 Station M, Calgary, Alberta T2P 2H5, Canada.

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APPOMATTOX ADVANCES ABOUT APPOMATTOX Shell makes final investment decision for n Shell discovered Appomattox in Gulf of Mexico deepwater development 2010 and Vicksburg in 2013. n The Appomattox development host will consist of a semi-submersible, four-column production host platform, a subsea system featuring six drill centers, 15 producing wells and five water injection wells. n The Appomattox project is located 80 miles offshore (129 kilometers) from the nearest shoreline in Louisiana, in approximately 7,200 feet (2,195 meters) of water. n In addition to serving the Appomattox host, the upsized Mattox Pipeline will have pre-installed subsea connection points, which will allow for future interconnections. n Gettysburg is owned by Shell (80%, operator) and Nexen Petroleum Offshore U.S.A. Inc. (20%). n Rydberg is owned by Shell (57.2%, operator), Ecopetrol America Inc. (28.5%) and Nexen Petroleum Offshore U.S.A. Inc. (14.3%).

Mars B, another deepwater development in the GOM.

Shell recently announced its final will be profitable for decades to come. resources at Appomattox and Vicksburg, investment decision (FID) to advance the With its competitive cost and design, with startup estimated around the end of Appomattox deepwater development in Appomattox is next in our series of the decade. the Gulf of Mexico (GOM). The decision deepwater successes.” authorizes construction and installation The development of Shell’s recent, of Shell’s eighth and largest floating During design work for Appomattox, nearby discoveries at the Gettysburg platform in the GOM. Shell reduced the total project cost by and Rydberg prospects remains under 20% through supply-chain savings, review. These could become additional, The Appomattox development will design improvements and a reduction high-value tiebacks to Appomattox, initially produce from the Appomattox in the number of wells required for bringing the total estimated discovered and Vicksburg fields, with average development. The project includes resources in the area to more than peak production estimated to reach advancements from previous four-column 800 million boe. approximately 175,000 barrels of oil hosts, such as the Olympus tension-leg equivalent (boe) per day. The platform platform (TLP), as well as ensuring a Shell Pipeline Company LP also made a and the Appomattox and Vicksburg high degree of design maturity before final investment decision on the Mattox fields will be owned by Shell (79%) and construction. With these and other Pipeline, a 24-inch corridor pipeline that Nexen Petroleum Offshore U.S.A. Inc. cost reductions, the go-forward project will transport crude oil from the Appomattox (21%), a wholly-owned subsidiary of breakeven price is estimated to be host to an existing offshore structure in CNOOC Limited. around $55 per barrel Brent equivalent. the South Pass area and then connect onshore through an existing pipeline. “We have again delivered a globally Shell is currently the only operator in competitive investment scope for another the GOM with commercial deepwater Last year in the GOM, Shell started significant deepwater project,” says discoveries in the Norphlet formation, production from the Mars B development Marvin Odum, director, Shell Upstream which dates back 150 to 200 million through the new Olympus TLP, and from Americas. “Appomattox opens up years to the Jurassic period. The company the Cardamom subsea tie-back to the more production growth for us in the continues active exploration in the area. Auger platform. Shell is also currently Gulf of Mexico, where our production developing the Stones project, which last year averaged about 225,000 The sanctioned project includes capital is expected to produce approximately boe per day, and this development for the development of 650 million boe 50,000 boe per day. «

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Shell Place in Fort McMurray, Alberta.

INVESTING IN COMMUNITY Shell Place opens its doors

On a bright, sunny morning in June, $2.5 million for naming rights to agencies to collaborate, share services Shell Place in Fort McMurray, Alberta, the $133-million MacDonald Island and build program synergies. officially opened its doors. Thousands Park expansion, which was funded of school children were on hand for the by the Regional Municipality of “The Redpoll Centre at Shell Place event as they tried to set a Guinness Wood Buffalo. gives us the opportunity to take our World Record for the most people successful shared space model and to simultaneously cut a ceremonial “Shell Place will be at the heart of our have it benefit a much larger number of ribbon. More than 100 Community community for many years to come,” says organizations,” says Diane Shannon, Crew volunteers from Shell’s Albian Mayor Melissa Blake. “This stunning, executive director, United Way of Fort Sands were there to oversee the state-of-the-art venue is a source of pride McMurray. “We are thrilled to be a ribbon-cutting. for residents and will attract world-class part of this amazing facility, working entertainment and sporting events to together to make a better community.” Though they didn’t quite make the our region.” record book, Shell Canada still viewed “Shell Place is a major addition to our the event as historic and was proud to As well as its stadiums, the complex community infrastructure, providing welcome the community to Shell Place. features the largest social agency shared outstanding quality of life for our The new complex features a multi-use space in the region. Shell Place will employees, their families and the football and soccer stadium, a baseball house up to 20 local agencies at the wider region,” Zebedee concludes. stadium and community-use softball and Redpoll Centre, operated by the United turf fields, as well as a volleyball and Way of Fort McMurray. This impressive For more information about Shell Place, visit badminton court. space makes it much easier for smaller www.macdonaldisland.ca/shell-place. «

The celebration continued the next day with the Northern Kickoff, a Canadian Football League (CFL) exhibition game THE IMPORTANCE OF SOCIAL INVESTMENT between the Edmonton Eskimos and the Saskatchewan Rough Riders. The game It’s a first. While there are many corporate naming sponsors attached to marked the most northerly location ever major sporting/leisure facilities all over the world, this is a first for Shell. played by the CFL. It’s about quality of life. Shell is helping meet much-needed “Shell Place took three years to build, recreational and social needs for a diverse northern community of over and we’ve been so proud to be there 100,000 residents, located 310 miles (500 kilometers) from the nearest from the outset as the naming partner,” major city. Shell Place offers young athletes first-class facilities where they says Peter Zebedee, general manager, can compete with the best in football, soccer, baseball and badminton, Shell Albian Sands. and offers residents local access to sports, recreation and cultural entertainment services. Shell Canada and its Athabasca Oil Sands Project (AOSP) joint venture It’s about innovation. Along with sporting/conference venues, Shell partners, Chevron Canada Limited and Place houses the largest social agency shared space in the region. The Fort Marathon Oil Corporation, contributed McMurray United Way is the anchor tenant with a mandate to mentor and champion collaboration among a host of smaller social agencies.

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CONSERVING GREENSPACE DISCOVER Shell funds ecological assessment ALUMNINEWS at Broadwood ONLINE! Canada magazine goes ‘green’

In an effort to reduce costs and be good environmental stewards, Shell Canada Communications has made the decision to discontinue the print version of AlumniNews magazine. Instead, Shell Canada will offer the same format in an electronic version which will be emailed directly to online subscribers in Canada. A Shell employee and her son remove invasive plant species in the Mount Broadwood Conservation Area. Subscribers in the U.S. still have the option of receiving a print version of the magazine. For Canada’s 125th birthday in 1992, populations of bighorn sheep, deer, Shell gave a gift that has kept on moose, elk, cougar and bear. The With nearly 27,000 Shell alumni in giving. The company donated 22,500 Wigwam River that flows through the the U.S. and Canada, we’re proud acres of land to Nature Conservancy property supports some of the largest of our large alumni network, and Canada (NCC), establishing the Mount cutthroat trout in southeastern British we want AlumniNews to come to Broadwood Conservation Area Fernie in Columbia and is the single most you in a format that is convenient British Columbia. important bull trout spawning system in and enjoyable. We believe our the Kootenay region. Sockeye (kokanee) electronic version offers several Now Shell is reinvesting in Mount salmon and bull trout are also present, advantages. Here’s how it works: Broadwood. This year, the company making it a prime destination for funded an ecological baseline catch-and-release fly-fishers along the Alumni who have signed up assessment and new interpretive signage Wigwam River and Lodgepole Creek. to receive the magazine in its for visitors to the area. The ecological electronic format receive an email baseline assessment will document the “Mount Broadwood was a very exciting that includes story summaries found environmental and cultural features gift for Canadians to receive from Shell,” in the issue, along with links to three of the land and will identify and rank says NCC’s Nancy Newhouse. “I think versions of the magazine: biological targets and threats. Findings all Canadians should care about a 1. United States will give the NCC important information property like Mount Broadwood—not 2. Canada: English needed to conserve Mount Broadwood only because of its spectacular beauty, 3. Canada: French for future generations. but because it’s such a core part of functioning ecosystems.” Once an alumnus clicks on the “Shell previously held mineral rights in the version of choice, the magazine is area,” says Ashley Nixon, manager, NGO Shell is a leader in voluntarily launched into a reader’s Internet and Stakeholder Relations. “Some great conserving land across Canada, browser. From there, you can people at Shell before my time decided this through a number of partnerships with increase the magnification of the is a fabulous place, and it’s better off being conservation groups. To date, Shell text to improve readability, easily turned into a nature reserve rather than has conserved over 31,000 acres of search topics of interest and even keeping it for future development.” land across Canada, including recent print the magazine to your personal conservation efforts at Shell True home printer. Today, Mount Broadway is host to a North Forest and Shell Buffalo Hills number of local species, including Conservation Ranch. « Sign up today! We want alumni to continue receiving news and information about Shell and hope you will take the time to sign up online. To receive AlumniNews in this easy, electronic format, visit www.shell.us/alumni, and we will add you to our growing list of electronic subscribers! «

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ENGAGING WITH THE PUBLIC All ages tried the hi-tech goggles. Fly offshore from your chair

What’s life like on a remote oil platform? How is energy experience,” says Hasting Stewart, communications manager, extracted in deep water? Thanks to virtual reality Oculus Rift Upstream Americas, Deep Water. “Every visual component technology, people around the world are getting an up-close has been digitally animated and appears as if in the same look at Shell operations offshore. space as the viewer. When you consider how expensive it is to take stakeholders to an offshore platform, this tool is a The Oculus Rift headsets take stakeholders on a journey very economical way to provide the offshore experience to offshore. On display at a Shell-sponsored music festival in audiences whose opinions impact our license to do business.” New Orleans, the simulated journey begins by helicopter, where users take a flight to Perdido, the world’s deepest oil Hasting and his team aimed to give people a true sense of the and gas asset. They then travel to Olympus, Shell’s largest scale, technology and safety in Shell’s deepwater operations floating deepwater platform. After descending to sea level, in the Gulf of Mexico, while keeping it entertaining. “It shares stakeholders watch a seismic vessel scan the seabed for the kind of information the public is typically curious about, like untapped reserves. Down to the watery depths, they witness water depths and safety measures,” he notes. Shell’s innovative subsea machinery in action, viewing wellheads, pipework, manifolds, separators and remotely In addition to its use in New Orleans, the technology was also operated vehicles at 3,000 feet below sea level. a hit at a recent Shell Innovation Open House in Mexico, a country opening its doors to international energy firms. The The technology is a powerful, cost-efficient tool that gives users company has also created a simulation that takes users on a a better understanding of Shell operations and even dispels journey inside an engine, and it’s also being used internally so misconceptions about safety. “With the use of technology and employees can gain a better understanding of the Prelude, the great storytelling, we have created an immersive and intuitive world’s first floating liquefied natural gas facility. «

SHELL SELLS EQUITY IN ELBA Company retains 100% of capacity

Kinder Morgan Inc. and Shell recently Growth. “Shell and Kinder Morgan have facility and enable rapid construction reached an agreement for Kinder successful relationships in North America compared to traditional large-scale Morgan to purchase 100% of Shell’s based on Kinder Morgan ownership with plants. The next step in the regulatory equity interest in Elba Liquefaction Shell as a customer, and we believe this approval process is for the Federal Company LLC (ELC), owner of the Elba will be a successful model at Elba as well.” Energy Regulatory Commission to issue a Liquefaction Project. draft environmental assessment. Subject “With this transaction, we deliver on our to regulatory approvals, construction The liquefaction project is proposed strategic intent of creating a competitive could begin in the fourth quarter of to be constructed and operated at the source of U.S. LNG exports, whilst 2015, with initial production expected to existing Elba Island LNG Terminal near reducing capex spend and improving occur in late 2017. Savannah, Georgia. Kinder Morgan the risk profile,” says Jorge Santos currently owns 51% of the ELC joint Silva, Shell executive vice president, UA In 2012, the project received venture. Shell owns the remaining Commercial, New Business Development Department of Energy authorization to 49% and subscribes to 100% of the & Integrated Gas. “Additionally, we export to Free Trade Agreement (FTA) liquefaction capacity. Kinder Morgan will will receive value for our equity interest countries. An application to export to purchase the remaining 49% of the joint and reduce capex originally planned non-FTA countries is pending. Under venture that it does not already own. for plant construction. Shell retains the full development, the Elba Liquefaction obligation to deliver the 10 MMLS units.” Project is expected to have a total “This is a good opportunity to leverage capacity of approximately 2.5 million the proven track record of both Permitting continues for the proposed tons per year of LNG for export, companies to deliver an innovative LNG Elba Liquefaction Project, which consists which is equivalent to approximately export project in the United States,” says of 10 small-scale liquefaction units to 350,000 million cubic feet per day of Ton Ten Have, Shell Upstream Americas be purchased from Shell. They will be natural gas. « vice president, LNG Operations and integrated with the existing Elba Island

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A LABOR OF LOVE Employees continue to give back 10 years after Hurricane Katrina

There were over 120 Shell volunteers hard at work on a hot August relations advisor, Shell Deep Water. He spent that morning with morning, planting trees, creating a garden, building benches and a group of volunteers working on much-needed repairs for a painting rooms at the Einstein Charter School in New Orleans. homeowner in the New Orleans community of Algiers. “The homeowner had suffered a stroke and was in a wheelchair. As the task took shape, a young student approached Shell’s His front porch was in bad shape and unsafe, and he just Katie Richmond. “Thank you for helping my school,” he said. wanted to be able to be on that porch and reconnect with his At that moment, Richmond felt the full impact of what she and neighbors,” Wellbaum says. her fellow volunteers were doing. “Ten years after Hurricane Katrina, we were channeling our memories and our energies Shell’s effort in Algiers on the Katrina anniversary is just one into something positive,” says Richmond, rotating equipment of many rehabilitation projects on homes for lower-income engineer, Shell Deep Water. “What we and the other homeowners in Orleans Parish. Shell is partnering with an volunteers did that morning was truly transformational for that organization called Rebuilding Together New Orleans. On this school.” particular day, at this home, volunteers made major repairs to the front and back porches and installed new flooring. “It That transformational work was just one of the many activities was really poignant to see the homeowner’s gratitude,” recalls taking place across New Orleans on August 29 in what was Wellbaum. “His wife was crying as she gave us hugs.” billed as the Katrina 10 Citywide Day of Service. Members of Shell’s Deep Water team participated in a variety of volunteer Back at the school, Shell volunteers planted 40 trees and over efforts, underscoring Shell’s continuing commitment to a city 200 shrubs, created a 1,000-square-foot teaching garden devastated by one of the most destructive hurricanes in history. and went through nearly 200 gallons of paint. United Way representative Jamene Dahmer grew emotional as she took in the “Even in tough times, Shell is part of New Orleans, and New scene that day. “My heart is very full,” she said. “You’re Shell. Orleans is part of Shell,” notes Andy Wellbaum, external You decided to come back to New Orleans after the storm.” «

Shell volunteers repaired houses in New Orleans.

NOTEWORTHY! What do you do to stay healthy?

Shortly after retiring from DPMC in Deer Park, Texas, in 1986, I started having problems with my back as a result of building our retirement Al Ely on a 2010 trip to Antarctica. home in Joplin, Missouri. A friend recommended a 12-minute exercise What’s the best book you’ve read in the last year? program geared toward strengthening What makes it a good read? back and stomach muscles and it worked. In recent years, I have The best book I’ve read in the past year is Mark Hadden’s “The Curious Incident of expanded it to 16 minutes to include the Dog in the Night-Time.” On one level, it’s a great read of a mystery story about arms and legs. Food in moderation the murder of a dog. But on a deeper level, it’s an even better read delving into the and a glass of wine before dinner, mind of a brilliant young man with a form of autism. And if you can get to the Ethel coupled with exercise, is the way I Barrymore theater in New York City, it’s also a great theatrical experience. stay healthy at 83. Al Ely (’92 Products Distribution) Russ Shedelbower (’86 Deer Park)

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CLUB ROSTER AND UPCOMING EVENTS *As new calendar events are scheduled throughout the year, email [email protected].

ALASKA: Kenai GEORGIA: Marietta NEW JERSEY: Sewaren Shell Alaska Alumni Club Shell Ladies and Old Boys Garden State SO Shellites Luncheon: Dec. | Pete Woodson: 907- Christmas luncheon: Dec., Atlanta Luncheon: Dec. 1, Dominic’s | Bob 345-6335 | [email protected] | Community Center | Ken Hyde: 770- Fischer: 732-969-1565 | Mail: 134 Mail: 8901 Spendlove Dr., Anchorage, 973-8207 | ken.hyde@ comcast.net | 7th St., Port Reading, NJ 07064 AK 99516 Mail: 4509 Woodhaven, N.E., Marietta, GA 30067 NEW JERSEY: Woodbury ARKANSAS: Hot Springs Woodbury Poly Pros Arkansas Shell Alumni Club ILLINOIS: Wood River Christmas party: Dec., Adelphia’s Christmas dinner: Dec. (Hot Springs Wood River Refinery Retiree Association (Deptford) | Richard Rupertus: 856-455- Village). Christmas luncheon: Dec. 7, Wood River 1705 | [email protected] | Mail: Lunch: Second Tuesday of the month, Moose | David Lewis: 618-972-1575 31 Seeley Rd., Bridgeton, NJ 08302 11:30 a.m. | Jack Williams: 501-226- | dalewis28@gmail. com | Mail: 105 9881 | [email protected] | Whispering Oaks, Bethalto, IL 62010 NORTH CAROLINA: Charlotte Mail: 21 Sorpresa Way, Hot Springs Carolina Alumni & Retirees of Shell Village, AR 71909 LOUISIANA: Baton Rouge Christmas luncheon: Dec. 2, Longhorn Shell Geismar Area Retirees Club Steakhouse (Pineville) | Ira Parkman: 919- CALIFORNIA: Bakersfield Christmas luncheon: Dec. 9, Frank’s 846-4860 | [email protected] | Retired Shell Employees of San Joaquin Restaurant (Prairieville) | Peggy Walker: Mail: 7029 Millstone Ridge Ct., Raleigh, Don Harrison: 661-763-4568 | 225-715-4409 | [email protected] | NC 27614 [email protected] | Mail: 27901 Mail: 36106 Ridge Road, Prairieville, Tank Farm Road, Taft, CA 93268 L A 70769 OHIO: Port Clinton Ohio Shell Pensioners Club CALIFORNIA: Martinez LOUISIANA: Houma Richard Mowry: 419-341-4377 | Martinez Refinery Complex Alumni Shell Cajun Alumni Club [email protected] | Mail: 200 Anne Fincke: 925-354- 2051 | Luncheon: Dec. 8, Petroleum Club (Morgan North Crest Dr., Port Clinton, OH 43452 [email protected] | Mail: 2954 City) | Russell Poiencot: 985-872-4619 | Honeysuckle Circle, Antioch, CA 94531 Mail: 244 Grande St., Houma, LA 70363 OKLAHOMA: Tulsa Mid-Central Shell Alumni Association CALIFORNIA: Southern California LOUISIANA: Lake Charles John Digges: 918-252-3307 | Shell Alumni of Southern California Shell Pensioners Club of Lake Charles [email protected] | Mail: 9108 East Monthly luncheon: Fourth Friday of Quarterly meeting: First Wednesday of 59th Place, Tulsa, OK 74145 the month, noon, Joe’s Crab Shack the month, Pat’s of Henderson | (Newport Beach) | Joseph M. Tully III: Fred Berger: 337-263-0475 | OREGON: Portland 949-632-0271 | [email protected] | [email protected] | Mail: 4218 Oregon Shell Annuitants Club Mail: 28212 San Marcos, Mission Viejo, Mary Ann Lane, Lake Charles, LA 70605 Lunch: Last Wednesday of the CA 92692 month, Broadmoor Golf Course | LOUISIANA: Norco Dan Harshburger: 541-390- 9622 | CALIFORNIA: Roseville Shell Chemical Norco Plant Alumni Club [email protected] | Mail: 453 NW Shell Golden Nuggets Club luncheon: Dec. 2, Doubletree, Flagline Dr., Bend, OR 97701 Luncheon: Dec. 3, Cameron Park New Orleans Airport (Kenner) | Community Center | G. Dale Dowdy: Leroy A. Morales: 504-467-4639 or OREGON: Siskiyou 916-749-7612 | garlanddowdy@icloud. Sheryl Lupo: [email protected] | Siskiyou Shell Alumni com | Mail: 4004 Ravensworth Place, Mail: #7 Lasso Lane, St. Rose, LA 70087 Derek Eck: 541-552-9134 | Roseville, CA 95747 [email protected] | Mail: 1000 LOUISIANA: Norco Paradise Lane, Ashland, OR 97520 COLORADO: Denver Shell NORCO Retirees Club Mile High Shell Retirees Christmas social: Dec., Airport Hotel TEXAS: Austin Mike Anderson: 303-708-1160 | (Kenner) | Bill Collins: 504-400-6472 | Austin Hill Country Alumni Club mymikea3@ gmail.com | Mail: 9228 [email protected] | Mail: John Chenoweth: 512-863-0505 | Meredith Ct., Lone Tree, CO 80124 29 Edgewood, Destrehan, LA 70047 [email protected] | or Vic Figurelli: 512-931-0108 | MISSISSIPPI: Braxton [email protected] | Mail: 116 Ruellia North Louisiana and Mississippi Shell Dr., Georgetown, TX 78633 Alumni Club Wm. N. Rook: 601-847-1120 | [email protected] | Mail: 132 Cox Road, Braxton, MS 39044

20159786 US.indd 8 11/18/15 9:20 AM SUMMARY ANNUAL REPORTS FOR PLAN YEAR ENDING 12-31-2014

To: All Participants To obtain a copy of the full annual report, or any part thereof, write Shell Retirement Funds, P.O. Box 1438, Houston, Texas This pamphlet summarizes the full annual reports for the 77251-1438 or call 713-241-7623. The charge to cover Plan Year January 1 through December 31, 2014, for the copying costs will be $0.10 per page. plans identified in the pamphlet. The full annual reports have been filed with the Employee Benefits Security Administration You also have the right to receive from the Plan Administrator, (EBSA), as required by the Employee Retirement Income on request and at no charge, a statement of the assets and Security Act of 1974 (ERISA). liabilities of the plan and accompanying notes, or a statement of income and expenses of the plan and accompanying notes, These summaries are provided for your information. They or both. If you request a copy of the full annual report from the require no action on your part and have no effect on your Plan Administrator, these two statements and accompanying benefits. Please note that you may not be covered by or notes will be included as part of that report. The charge to have benefits under all of the plans. Questions about your cover copying costs given above does not include a charge benefit plans or these summaries should be directed to for the copying of these portions of the report because these Shell Oil Company, P. O. Box 2463, Houston, TX 77252. portions are furnished without charge.

You have the legally protected right to examine each annual report at the main office of the plan (Shell Oil Company, 910 Shell Provident Fund Louisiana, Houston, Texas 77002), and at the U.S. Department of Labor in Washington, D.C., or to obtain a copy from the Plan Number 002. Employer Identification Number 13-1299890. U.S. Department of Labor upon payment of copying costs. Requests to the Department should be addressed to: Public Basic Financial Statement Disclosure Room, Room N1513, Employee Benefits Security Benefits under the plan are provided through a trust fund. Administration, U.S. Department of Labor, 200 Constitution Plan expenses were $818,671,009. These expenses included Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20210. $11,264,698 in administrative expenses, $806,647,626 in benefits paid to participants and beneficiaries, and $758,685 *Additional Explanation: Rollovers in the amount in other expenses. A total of 37,054 persons were participants of $126,263,517 also impacted the total plan income of in or beneficiaries of the plan at the end of the plan year, $1,165,481,428. although not all of these persons had yet earned the right to receive benefits.

The value of plan assets, after subtracting liabilities of the Shell Oil Company Comprehensive plan, was $10,564,353,710 as of December 31, 2014, Welfare Benefits Plan compared to $10,217,543,291 as of January 1, 2014. During the plan year, the plan experienced an increase in its net Plan Number 501. Employer Identification Number 13-1299890. assets of $346,810,419. This increase includes unrealized appreciation and depreciation in the value of plan assets; The plan provides certain accidental death & dismemberment, that is, the difference between the value of the plan’s assets business travel & accident, dental, legal, life insurance, long at the end of the year and the value of the assets at the term disability, long term care, medical, prescription drug, beginning of the year or the cost of assets acquired during temporary disability, vision, behavioral health, and back-up the year. The plan had total income of $1,165,481,428 care benefits. including employer contributions of $213,556,744, employee contributions of $247,190,409, and earnings from investments Shell Oil Company has committed itself to pay medical, of $578,470,758.* prescription drug, dental, and back-up care claims incurred under the terms of the plan. Certain medical and dental Your Rights to Additional Information benefits are funded by trusts. Insurance contracts are also used You have the right to receive a copy of the full annual report, to fund plan benefits, as noted below. or any part thereof, on request. The items listed below are included in that report: Insurance Information 1. an accountant’s report; The plan has contracts with Ameritas Life Insurance Company, 2. financial information; Blue Cross Blue Shield of Alabama, Blue Cross Blue Shield 3. assets held for investment; and of Texas, Connecticut General Life Insurance Company and 4. information regarding any common or collective trusts, Affiliates, CIGNA HealthCare of Texas, Coventry Health pooled separate accounts, master trusts or 103-12 Care of Louisiana, Delta Dental of California, Group Health investment entities in which the plan participates. Cooperative, HMSA, Humana Benefit Plan of Louisiana,

20159786 Insert.indd 7 11/19/15 12:57 PM Hyatt Legal Plans Inc., John Hancock Life Insurance Company, Your Rights to Additional Information Kaiser Foundation Health Plans Inc., Kaiser Foundation Health You have the right to receive a copy of the full annual report, Plan of Colorado Inc, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of the or any part thereof, on request. The items listed below are Northwest, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, Regence included in that report: BlueShield, United Healthcare of California, United Health 1. an accountant’s report; Care of the Midwest, United Healthcare of Oklahoma, Value 2. financial information and information on payments to Options (EAP) and Vision Service Plan (VSP) to pay accidental service providers; death & dismemberment, business travel & accident, dental, 3. assets held for investment; legal, life insurance, long term disability, long term care, 4. transactions in excess of 5% of plan assets; and medical, prescription drug, temporary disability, vision and 5. insurance information, including sales commissions paid by behavioral health claims incurred under the terms of the plan. insurance carriers. The total premiums paid for the plan year ending December 31, 2014 were $172,125,105. To obtain a copy of the full annual report, or any part thereof, write Shell Oil Company, P.O. Box 2463, Houston, TX 77252 Because the plan has some contracts which are so called or call 713-241-6515. The charge to cover copying costs will “experience-rated” contracts, the premium costs are affected be $0.10 per page. by, among other things, the number and size of claims. Of the total insurance premiums paid for the plan year You also have the right to receive from the Plan Administrator, ending December 31, 2014, the premiums paid under such on request and at no charge, a statement of the assets and “experience-rated” contracts were $18,203,960 and the liabilities of the plan and accompanying notes, or a statement total of all benefit claims paid under these experience-rated of income and expenses of the plan and accompanying notes, contracts during the plan year was $20,966,854. or both. If you request a copy of the full annual report from the Plan Administrator, these two statements and accompanying Basic Financial Statement notes will be included as part of that report. The charge to The value of plan assets, after subtracting liabilities of the plan, cover copying costs given above does not include a charge was $96,364,650 as of December 31, 2014, compared to for the copying of these portions of the report because these $27,083,792 as of January 1, 2014. During the plan year, the portions are furnished without charge. plan experienced an increase in its net assets of $69,280,858. This increase includes unrealized appreciation and You have the legally protected right to examine each annual depreciation in the value of plan assets; that is, the difference report at the main office of the plan (Shell Oil Company, 910 between the value of the plan’s assets at the end of the year Louisiana, Houston, Texas 77002), and at the U.S. Department and the value of the assets at the beginning of the year or the of Labor in Washington, D.C., or to obtain a copy from the cost of assets acquired during the year. During the plan year, U.S. Department of Labor upon payment of copying costs. the plan had total income of $714,041,137 including employer Requests to the Department should be addressed to: Public contributions of $502,719,774, employee contributions of Disclosure Room, Room N1513, Employee Benefits Security $207,872,169, and earnings from investments of $8,706.* Administration, U.S. Department of Labor, 200 Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20210. Plan expenses were $644,760,279. These expenses included $34,938,436 in administrative expenses and $609,821,843 in *Additional Explanation: Miscellaneous income in benefits paid to participants and beneficiaries. the amount of $3,440,488 also impacted total income of $ 7 14 , 0 41,13 7.

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WEDDING ANNIVERSARIES

50 YEARS 55 YEARS Don Allan (’00 WTC/DPMC) and Bob Dorries (’97 HR Shell Oil TEXAS: Brenham wife, Sandra: Aug. 6 Company) and wife, Marilyn: Sept. 24 Central Texas Shell Retirees Club Jim Heiser (’00 Shell Oil Company, David Oldham (’91 Shell Information Christmas party: Dec. 10, Los Cabos | Corporate Finance) and wife, Services) and wife, Charlotte: May 28 Carroll Boecker: 254-697-6969 | Dianne: July 30 [email protected] | Mail: 4134 Bob Kirby (’98 Trans Eng.) and wife, 60 YEARS West FM 485, Cameron, TX 76520 Maggie: June 12 Danny Charlton (’89 Shell New Lee Kunkel (’02 Shell Lubricants Orleans Offshore) and wife, Tommy: TEXAS: Dallas/Fort Worth Marketing/Shell Oil Products) and May 28 D/FW Shell Alumni Association wife, Gail: June 26 David Daniel (’92 Shell Oil Christmas luncheon: Dec. 2, La Hacienda Roger Matlock (’65 CRI Products ) and wife, Beverly: Aug. 28 Ranch Restaurant | Duggan Smith: International) and wife, Stephanie: Bill Hyde (Oil Products) and wife, 817-579-5306 | [email protected] | Mail: Dec. 27 Ann: Aug. 14 P.O. Box 5262, Granbury, TX 76049 William R. (Bill) Nelson Jr. Floyd Janek (’93 Shell Oil (‘99 Pecten Cameroon Co.) and wife, Company) and wife, Janet: Oct. 1 TEXAS: Hallettsville Lois: Oct. 23 Bruce Nelson (’91 Martinez) and South Central Texas Shell Pensioners Club Patricia (Tricia) Smith (’14 Shell wife, Ann: Sept. 15 J.C. Kelley: 361-798-5300 | Mail: Upstream Americas Legal dept.) and Bob Mitchell (’91 Shell Oil Products- 2355 FM 530, Hallettsville, TX 77964 husband, David: Aug. 26 Marketing) and wife, Dorothy: Jan. 23 Robert Smith (’99 Shell Belpre, Ohio TEXAS: Houston plant) and wife, Barbara: Sept. 18 65 YEARS Shell Alumni Association of Greater Roger Soons (’00 Shell Offshore Howard Kusnetz (’91 HS&E) and Houston P&GS) and wife, Linda: Aug. 28 wife, Florence, Aug. 24 Holiday event: Dec., Bayou Bend | Ron Swelstad (’97 Oil Products - Russell Nelson (Shell Oil Company) Events: www.saagh.com | Randy Petty: Detroit) and wife, Billie: Jan. 30 and wife, Elva: Dec. 1 281-579-3554 | [email protected] | Jim Vannice (’98 Shell Oil Refinery, Bill Rupp (’79 Shell Oil Company) Mail: 19515 Desert Ivy Dr., Houston, Anacortes) and wife, Chris: Jan. 29 and wife, Shann, Sept. 2 TX 77094 Janie Walser (’98 Shell Oil J.S. Swafford (’87 Shell Oil Products) and husband, Irvin: Aug. 7 Company) and wife, Dolores: Dec. 30 TEXAS: Houston K.L. Willman (’89 Shell Pipeline) Shell Northwest Alumni Club and wife, Mary Lee: Nov. 25 Christmas brunch: Dec. 8, Northgate Community Center | Club info and alumni travel photos: 100 YEARS & COUNTING … www.shellnwalumni.com | Robert Frederick: 281-923-0377 | Happy birthday to the following centurions! [email protected] | Mail: 230 W. Northcastle Circle, Conroe, TX 77384 RE Thomas, 103, Margaret M. Voss, 102, PW Wield, 105, LL Ryan, 101, Dorothy L. Allen, 101, TEXAS: Pasadena IL Miller, 101, IM Hebert, 101 Shell DPMC Retirees Monthly meeting: First Thursday of each month, 11 a.m. | Ada Mae Collazo: 713-828-0080 | adamaecollazo@ yahoo.com | Mail: 10500 Fountain Lake Dr., Apt. 426, Stafford, TX 77477

WEST VIRGINIA: Parkersburg Shell/Kraton Belpre Plant Retirees Christmas dinner: Dec. 3, Shriners building HOLE-IN-ONE Monthly meeting: Second Thursday of the month, 11:30 a.m., Western Sizzlin | Jerry Watson: 304-422-6988 | Lee Gunnerson (’91 Shell Chemical) shot a hole-in-one on October [email protected] | Mail: 9 at Healdsburg Golf Club on the 3rd hole. He used a 9-wood on the 451 Watson Rd., Parkersburg, 146-yard hole. W V 26104

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A WORD FROM SHELL HERO RETIREMENT FUNDS PROGRAM Shell Provident Fund MRDs – Week of December 13 Just a friendly reminder that Shell/ Motiva will match gifts of qualified Fidelity will automatically distribute by the specified date. This is different pensioners (1:1 up to a maximum Minimum Required Distributions (MRDs) than an IRA where the regulations put match of $5,500 per donor per the week of December 13 from Shell the responsibility on the IRA owner calendar year) through the HERO Provident Fund (SPF) accounts that are to withdraw the funds. As a result of Matching program. This includes subject to the MRD rules and where the participant feedback, Fidelity has matching to schools (grades K-12), account holder has not yet taken the scheduled SPF’s automatic MRDs at the colleges/universities, United Way required distribution. end of their processing cycle. and many other approved 501 (c)(3) charities. In addition to HERO The MRD rules require distributions Participants can make arrangements matching, Shell/Motiva encourages starting with the year that a participant to take their MRD from the SPF by active participation through reaches 70 ½ years of age or, if later, calling the Shell Benefits Service Center volunteerism. Volunteers can request the year in which they retire. The MRD (800-307-4355). If you are subject a grant for an organization where payment for the year participants turn to the MRD rules and have not made they have generously given their time. 70 ½ can be delayed until April 1 of the prior MRD distribution arrangements by following year. For all subsequent years, 4 p.m. Eastern time on December 11, For more information, visit including the year in which the first MRD your MRD payment will be automatically www.easymatch.com/HERO, or was paid by April 1, the MRD must be distributed from your SPF account contact Shell HERO customer service distributed by December 31 of that year. the week of December 13 (except for at 800-554-7861. As always, giving the MRD payment following 70 ½ as is a personal and optional choice. « Under IRS regulations, the SPF must noted above which will be paid the distribute MRDs to eligible participants following March). «

HEALTH MATTERS Winter Safety Tips

When Jack Frost comes nipping at your ■ ■ Keep anything that can burn at least three 10 minutes every hour. Keep the nose and your front yard turns into a feet from a space heater and consider exhaust pipe clear of snow so fumes do winter wonderland, make sure you’re switching to one that automatically not back up into the car. Move arms taking the steps needed to have a safe shuts off if the heater falls over. and legs to keep blood circulating, and enjoyable holiday season. ■ ■ Make sure your fire extinguisher is and keep a window open to let in air. charged and easily accessible. Chestnuts roasting on an open fire? Let it snow Maybe not. Home fires are not only Taking a sleigh ride? When temperatures drop, limit the time more likely during winter months, but Before you hit the road, have your car spent out in the cold. Seniors generally those 65 and older are three times more winterized if you live in a cold climate. produce less body heat, making them likely to die or be injured in a home fire. Check the air pressure in the tires, make more susceptible to hypothermia. To protect yourself: sure windshield wipers are working Conditions such as stroke, Parkinson’s ■ ■ Have chimneys, flues and furnaces and wiper fluid refilled, and have the disease and severe arthritis—and even inspected yearly. radiator, belts and oil checked. some medications—can limit the body’s ■ ■ Keep burning candles within sight, response to cold. Wear warm, layered away from trees, decorations, curtains For driving safety: clothing outside, including hat, gloves, and furniture. Extinguish candles ■ ■ Keep the gas tank full. warm socks and boots. before sleep and consider switching to ■ ■ Bring your cell phone on all outings, and battery-powered candles. let someone know where you’re going Also beware of icy steps and walkways. ■ ■ To prevent sparks, place a screen and your expected time of arrival. Seniors are at increased risk of falls around the fireplace. Never burn ■ ■ Keep an emergency travel kit in the when temperatures drop below freezing. wrapping paper or plastic in the trunk, with items such as a snow shovel If you are healthy—with no history of fireplace. (for colder climates), blankets, heart disease—and want to shovel the ■ ■ Replace batteries in all smoke and flashlight, water and first-aid kit. walkway, bundle up your entire body carbon monoxide detectors. Change ■ ■ If your car gets stuck in freezing and face, leaving no exposed skin to batteries twice a year. temperatures, stay in it. Start the car prevent frostbite, take frequent breaks and use the heater for approximately and stay hydrated. «

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Shell continues to safely de-mobilize from the Chukchi Sea.

UPDATE ON ALASKA Shell to abandon Burger J well

While Shell found indications of oil and gas in the Burger J The balance sheet carrying value of Shell’s Alaska position well, located in Alaska’s Chukchi Sea, they are not sufficient to is approximately $3 billion, with approximately a further warrant further exploration in the Burger prospect. The well will $1.1 billion of future contractual commitments. An update will be sealed and abandoned in accordance with U.S. regulations. be provided with the third quarter 2015 results.

The Burger J well is approximately 150 miles from Barrow, Shell holds a 100% working interest in 275 Outer Continental Alaska, in about 150 feet of water. Shell safely drilled the Shelf blocks in the Chukchi Sea. Operations will continue well to a total depth of 6,800 feet this summer in a basin that to safely de-mobilize people and equipment from the demonstrates many of the key attributes of a major petroleum Chukchi Sea. « basin. For an area equivalent to half the size of the Gulf of Mexico, this basin remains substantially under-explored. MAKING HISTORY FOR SHELL “The Shell Alaska team has operated DEEP WATER safely and exceptionally well in every aspect of this year’s exploration program,” Shell launches the Turritella says Marvin Odum, director, Shell

Upstream Americas. “Shell continues to Shell recently celebrated a major milestone with the launch of the Turritella, see important exploration potential in the a floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) facility that is a key basin, and the area is likely to ultimately component of the company’s Stones project in the Gulf of Mexico. The vessel will be of strategic importance to Alaska be the deepest production facility in the world, safely and responsibly unlocking and the U.S. However, this is a clearly energy resources in approximately 9,500 feet (2,900 meters) of water. disappointing exploration outcome for this part of the basin.” According to Curtis Lohr, Stones project manager, the naming ceremony was a special event. “We brought together people from Shell, SBM and Keppel to Shell will cease further exploration celebrate all the hard work and dedication that has gone into working together activity in offshore Alaska for the to safely deliver the groundbreaking Turritella FPSO,” he says. foreseeable future. This decision reflects both the Burger J well result, the high The Turritella has a unique name and unique features. The vessel gets its name costs associated with the project and the from the turret shells of medium-sized sea snails. The shells are tightly coiled, challenging and unpredictable federal forming an elongated cone. A key technological innovation with Stones is the regulatory environment in offshore Alaska. first use of a disconnectable FPSO with lazy wave risers. The Stones FPSO will use a turret with a disconnectable buoy to allow the FPSO vessel to act as The company expects to take financial a weathervane in normal conditions and to disconnect its mooring lines and charges as a result of this announcement. risers from the subsea system and sail to safe areas in the event of a storm.

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TAKING The lazy wave riser configuration will consist of steel catenary risers with buoyancy added with an arch bend to decouple the FPSO dynamic motions and THE ‘LONG subsequently increase riser performance. VIEW’ The Turritella is representative of Shell’s commitment to safety. The project has reached 500 days of Goal Zero, with 14 million exposure hours. “I am proud Peggy Montana says of all the hard work and focus from multiple teams that made this great vessel a reality, and, in particular, delivered outstanding safety performance to date,” goodbye to Shell says Maria Pena, Stones business opportunity manager

Years ago, it was time to take on a new “We demand Goal Zero of ourselves one day at a time through consistent role in her Shell career, and for Peggy focus, actions and behaviors that deliver no harm to people and protect the Montana, that step was going to take her environment,” Lohr adds. “The Stones project team will be a model of HSSE in an entirely different direction. excellence by ‘doing the right thing’ at all times.” Turritella will soon begin its journey to the Gulf of Mexico where production from Stones’ first phase of “At the time, I was a process unit development is targeted for 2016. « manager at the Deer Park Refinery,” she recalls. “The new role that was offered was catalysis research manager “The most important job you can do at the Westhollow Technology Center as a leader is to pick the right people. in Houston. That meant going from You send a message about the quality an operations role to a research role, of leadership and the values you are leading a team of Ph.D.s. It was time, rewarding. The culture that I strive for I realized, to stretch myself. That decision has an emphasis on the people at the was a lesson in the importance to reach front line. Leaders should do everything for something new and different so that they can to make sure the front line is you don’t grow comfortable.” more engaged, clear about the business direction, works more effectively and is Montana, who is currently CEO Shell happier in that work.” Midstream Partners, and EVP United States Pipeline, is leaving Shell after 38 years Peggy Montana. Making history of service. Throughout her career she In January, the chemical engineer from has taken what she calls the “long view” at the front line. There is so much we could the Midwest rang the closing bell at the to develop career and leadership skills. do at Shell to unleash that capability. New York Stock Exchange and made There’s a power there that would add so history. As CEO of Shell Midstream “You have to be open to the reality that much to our business success.” Partners, Montana witnessed the first aspirations can change. That means time a major, integrated oil company your career trajectory can change as Montana would take on roles she could had spun off midstream assets into a well. And Shell must take the long view not have imagined at the beginning publicly traded partnership. “If someone as well, in terms of retaining talent of her career. There was a move to a had told me in 1977 that I would wrap and treating employees in a way that commercial role as business manager up my Shell career as a CEO, I wouldn’t builds commitment. For me, that means for base oils, waxes and lubricants; have believed it,” she says with a laugh. building in more flexibility to enable then an overseas assignment as general “But, once again, I had gone for the employees to manage through different manager of Distribution for Asia Pacific. option that was least familiar.” challenges that occur over a long-term “At every point, there were people at career and increasing our ambition for Shell who thought I could do the work, She saw, and experienced, so much workforce diversity.” even if sometimes I was less sure,” variety and opportunity over her Shell Montana notes. “Now I’m on the other career, but at the core of that work A chemical engineer’s journey side of the conversation, especially with experience are some fundamental beliefs Montana started at Shell in 1977, with women. If somebody thinks you can do that never changed. “It always boiled a chemical engineering degree and a the job, then why turn that role down?” down to three things. First of all, do notion that one day she might rise as high your job, and do your job well. Second, as mid-level management. In her very Leadership lessons don’t wait for someone else to give you first role at the Deer Park refinery, she An appointment as executive vice opportunities, but instead widen your developed a connection to the front line president for Supply & Distribution circle of influence and ensure that you that would characterize her entire career. gave Montana an opportunity to lead impact the company in a variety of an entire class of business. In that role, ways. And, lastly, be open to new and “My favorite part of the job has always she applied a shared leadership model different things. When I opened myself been going out to the field and interacting built on the belief that everyone in the to other work facets, I was always able with people,” she says. “At the refinery organization has a stake in the success to gain more insight about Shell—and, and elsewhere, I saw very capable people of the business. about myself.” «

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indicate that UAV results were within 5% of the ground survey and have shown a significant reduction in HSE exposure, especially to people. The intent is that this technique can be altered to measure reclamation success.

The need for smaller, more cost-effective units has become even more apparent in the current economic climate. Employing a full-size aircraft can be costly, especially for relatively small areas. This is where The UAV team with the new aircraft technology. the use of an unmanned aircraft can play a crucial role. They are easily deployed, low cost, accurate and easy to use once employees receive appropriate training. In BIRD’S-EYE VIEW some situations, in fact, a UAV is likely the only alternative for collecting data from an Shell makes aviation advances inaccessible or hazardous environment.

The scale of reclamation monitoring in the As Shell continues operations in the oil can share it with our industry peers in oil sands makes the use of UAVs ideal since sands of Alberta, it is also working on COSIA,” says Clayton Dubyk, senior landforms such as tailings ponds, waste new technologies that help in returning advisor, Environment. “In some cases dumps and soil stockpiles easily allow the land back to a natural state. A pilot Shell is a recipient of technologies for maintaining line-of-site with the UAV, project using unmanned aerial vehicles from others, but in this case, we are a current Transport Canada requirement. (UAV) is providing data needed to contributing our learnings to 13 other accurately monitor and measure the companies. That’s the value of COSIA.” With the use of UAV technology, Shell success of these reclamation efforts hopes to reduce risk and costs and across large areas of land. Why use unmanned aerial increase the efficiency of reclamation vehicles? monitoring. Upstream Americas (UA) UAVs collect high-resolution data with Creating a robust dataset that will Geomatics is collaborating with Shell cameras and sensors. Data can then support reclamation certification by Aviation, IT Innovation and other be geospatially analyzed to measure regulators is a constant challenge for oil business units to further the technology. vegetation success in natural and sands companies. Defining reclamation Data collection for the project was reclamation areas. The project is a success traditionally depends on successfully completed without any HSSE collaboration with Canada’s Oil Sands physically measuring metrics such as tree incidents, and data processing and Innovation Alliance (COSIA), an alliance height, vegetation composition and soil analysis are currently underway. of oil sands producers focused on moisture that are repeatedly monitored accelerating the pace of improvement in over the course of decades. “For Shell, a technology company that environmental performance in Canada’s cares for its people and the environment, oil sands through collaborative action Shell UA Geomatics recently completed unmanned aerial systems technology and innovation. a pilot project that used a UAV to capture gives us tangible business value and high-resolution digital images and reduces HSSE exposure,” says Ayo “Once Shell determines that this digital elevation data to determine soil Adediran, geo-information consultant, technology is robust and reliable, we stockpile volumes. Preliminary findings UA Geomatics. «

SHELL’S LONG-TERM GOALS ABOUT OIL SANDS n Reduce disturbance footprint RECLAMATION n Increase temporary and permanent reclamation areas n Use conservation areas to bridge the disturbance gap Canada’s oil sands are located under approximately n Integrate planning and execution of mining, waste 54,900 square miles (142,200 square kilometers) of disposal and reclamation land. Only 3% of that land could potentially be impacted n Continue to provide opportunities for stakeholder by mining methods—approximately 0.1% of Canada’s participation in reclamation, especially to aboriginal boreal forest. To date, 0.02% of Canada’s boreal forest communities has been disturbed by oil sands mining operations. The n Improve tailings management technology to enhance Alberta government requires that any land disturbed by reclamation oil sands mining operations be reclaimed (returned to its natural state).

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‘MAKING OTHERS HAPPY’ Alumnus shares passion for music at senior homes

Carl Kristjansen (’94 Engineering) never took a piano lesson in his life and can’t read music. Though he dabbled in playing simple melodies on a home piano and at college, he never pursued it until he found the right keyboard instrument. In his 30s, Kristjansen, who had been newly transferred to Sarnia, happened upon an organist at a hotel dance. “I thought, I’ve got to do this!”

Kristjansen rushed out and purchased a used organ for $500, along with a guidebook that explained how to use chords. “ Your left hand triggers the chords and your right hand plays the melody,” he says. “Except in this case, a chord engages the sounds of three to five other instruments, including drums and bass. “You’re basically playing a whole orchestra with your left hand. It’s like having your own band.” Carl Kristjansen and Truly Scrumptious. It wasn’t long before Kristjansen looked for others who shared his passion. He joined an organist club in Sarnia, and the amplifier/speakers in with one The keyboard can even take Kristjansen’s and when he found there was none in hand and I’m set up and ready to play in voice up or down several octaves. “I’ve Calgary when he relocated there in four minutes.” got several wigs, including ones for Dolly 1984, he formed one. “I would prowl Parton, Doris Day and Johnny Cash. the music stores looking for people With only one hand needed to transport When it comes to those numbers, I throw who played.” Kristjansen also began the keyboard rig, Kristjansen has his on the wig and let the keyboard transform playing at hospitals and senior homes other hand free for his second form of my voice. It always gets a laugh.” with a portable keyboard and speaker. entertainment, Truly Scrumptious, an “I always liked to entertain people and 11-pound Havanese dog. Before he ever Kristjansen loves the feeling of having thought it could bring patients and plays a note, Kristjansen gives residents connected with the audience. He says residents some bit of pleasure.” a chance to pet Truly. “Nearly everyone it’s especially moving to see the music’s wants to pet her. She’s very soft and effect on those with Alzheimer’s. “You After retirement, Kristjansen traded the cuddly.” Truly then performs several have to work harder to get a reaction cold Canadian winters for the Sunshine of more than 20 tricks Kristjansen has from them, but when I see them tapping State of Florida. It didn’t take him long to taught her. “The audience loves it.” their fingers or mouthing the words to a find a new audience. “There is no shortage song, it brings tears to my eyes.” of senior homes in Florida,” he muses. Residents are given song sheets so they “I found eight homes right around me.” can sing along. “I have 12 different sets In the 16 years Kristjansen has of song sheets each with about 20 songs volunteered at senior homes, he Today, Kristjansen plays twice a week in for lots of variety. I like to mix it up each estimates he’s played more than 500 senior homes. “I book for the whole year time.” He plays music from the 20s, gigs. “It’s important to find something so I can plan my other activities.” Still an 30s and 40s, along with 50s rockabilly you like doing in retirement. This keeps engineer at heart, Kristjansen designed tunes. “I’m not a good singer, but the me busy and means so much to me. his keyboard for easy set-up, take-down keyboard can take my voice and turn it When residents are having fun and and transport. “The keyboard never into two- to four-part harmony. It makes I can get a few laughs, it makes my leaves the stand. It all folds up and easily it sound like someone who can actually day,” he says. “What could be better slides into the trunk of the car. While sing! Since I only play by ear, I don’t use than making yourself happy by making most keyboardists have to make two or a music rack and can make important others happy?” « three trips, I wheel the keyboard, stand eye contact with the audience.”

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HONORING WORLD WAR II VETERANS Alumnus serves as ambassador for Honor Flight Houston

During his 38 years with Shell, Teddy Kirkpatrick (’85 Marketing Engineering) took so many trips to Washington, D.C. as an industry advocate, the city became a second home to him. So when the 92-year-old found out about Honor Flight Houston, it wasn’t a free trip to the nation’s capital that motivated him to sign up. Instead, it was the opportunity to represent the Greatest Generation as a World War II veteran.

Honor Flight Houston is a nonprofit that sends World War II veterans to Washington, D.C. to visit and reflect at their memorials. The flights and tours are absolutely free to veterans.

When Kirkpatrick and 25 other veterans disembarked at both Ronald Reagan Ashley French (left) and Teddy Kirkpatrick with Mariloli and Marvin Odum. Washington National Airport and William P. Hobby Airport in Houston, they were greeted by cheering crowds. received a big brown envelope filled Ashley French. “Everyone falls in love “There were tears in our eyes. We with letters from family and friends. with Teddy. It’s one thing for us to talk had given so much and now we were “Honor Flight had contacted relatives about the organization. It’s a whole getting so much attention for our and friends before the flight and other thing to hear it from a veteran,” service,” Kirkpatrick says. While his collected all these letters—some from French says. own squadron had made it a point to around the world. It was incredibly get together every year, there were so moving. Everyone cried.” “Honor Flight Houston is volunteer-run few members left, the group recently and completely funded by donations. made the difficult decision to disband. Kirkpatrick was touched by the careful The trip I took to Washington, D.C. with “On one of our last trips together, we thought put into the trip and the 25 other vets cost $30,000,” Kirkpatrick visited Washington, D.C., but it poured dedication of the volunteers—those says. “It was well worth it for all that was rain and we only got a glimpse of the who took the time to come out to done for these people. World War II Memorial. That’s why this the airport and those who served as trip was so important to me.” companions during the trip. “When “There are less than 1 million World War we got off the plane in Houston, II veterans left. So many have passed Each veteran was assigned a I shook the hands of fellow soldiers on without ever having receiving this companion and wheelchair so they and hugged and kissed several honor,” he says. “I want people to know could easily visit the sites, including women in the crowd.” Kirkpatrick was how much veterans appreciate what the World War II Memorial. At a particularly taken with his 25-year-old Honor Flight Houston does—how many celebratory dinner, Kirkpatrick voiced companion, Molly Tims, who took him hearts they are lifting up. My goal is to his thoughts and persuaded others around the capital. Two weeks later, help raise donations and to get as many to talk about their service. “So many he called up Tims to let her know he veterans to Washington as possible.” veterans do not want to talk about what was returning to Washington, D.C. they went through, but I was able to get to take her to dinner as thanks. “She Honor Flight Houston is a member of them to speak up.” treated me like I was her grandfather. the Honor Flight Network, created to She was adorable. We had a honor the sacrifices of U.S. veterans. The flight back home to Houston offered wonderful evening.” For more information or to refer a a particularly touching tribute. “When World War II veteran, visit we were nearing Houston, we all of a The experience was so transformative www.honorflighthouston.com or sudden heard the words ‘Mail Call!’ for Kirkpatrick that he has since become www.honorflight.org. « During the war, Mail Call was the only a volunteer ambassador for Honor time you’d hear from loved ones back Flight Houston and even a surrogate home.” On the flight, each veteran grandfather to the nonprofit’s chairman,

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