ALUMNIPUBLISHED FOR SHELL ALUMNI IN THE AMERICAS | WWW.SHELL.US/ALUMNINEWSMARCH 2015 TRAINING SCALING ONE YEAR LATER A NEW NEW HEIGHTS WORKFORCE Integrated Operations Wind Energy vice Center impacts Alumni discover the president poised to performance. rewards of teaching. meet new challenges. GEARING UP FOR ECO-MARATHON PAGE 3 20151385_Common.indd 1 2/13/15 5:36 PM 2 SHELL NEWS 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 Thank you to all who took part in our Sign up to receive the newsletter electronically by AlumniNews survey! A summary of the survey visiting www.shell.us/alumni. While you’re there, read results can be found on page 13 of this issue. the latest news and information about Shell. Thank you to those who have already chosen to go green! We’ve reviewed everything you have to say and are working hard to bring you more of what you want to see. That includes more on CONTENTS what alumni are doing in retirement! We hope you will help us with a new section, called Noteworthy, located in the HIGHLIGHTS regional section of the magazine. Each issue, we are seeking your responses to a Paving the way for Eco-marathon featured question. Answers can be emailed, 03 Work accelerates in Shell mileage challenge move to Detroit. along with a related photo of yourself, if you have one. We can’t promise to publish One year later all responses and photos, but we will try to 04 Integrated Operations Center impacts performance. feature as many as we can! Offering the best of performance and technology While you’re flipping through the magazine, 05 Shell becomes BMW-recommended oil supplier. make sure to check out important stories on Shell, as well as a feature on Shell employee Scaling new heights Donna Oberg, who shares about her 06 Wind Energy vice president poised to meet new challenges. life-changing Project Better World expedition. Also in this issue, alumnus Sandy Scott talks about what she and her husband, Rick, are An adventure fit for Harry Potter doing to improve the lives of Romanian 11 Employee overcomes obstacles to take part in life-changing project. orphans, and 92-year-old alumnus Mike Yaschuk takes us into the world of hockey. Training a new workforce 12 Alumni discover rewards of teaching. As always, we are always looking for story ideas for our Alumni Features section of AlumniNews survey results the magazine. Our contact details can be 13 Read what fellow alumni have to say about AlumniNews. found below. Improving the lives of orphans Thanks again for all your responses to our 14 Alumnus and Shell employee help at-risk children in Romania. survey. We look forward to hearing from you in the new year! A winning strategy 15 Alumnus hits the ice, stays active at 92 years. 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 Need forms? Want back issues of AlumniNews of someone who would make a great profile for the magazine, please send us his/her phone number 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 feedback and tell us what you’d like to see [email protected] or mail a letter to Jackie Panera, Shell Canada Limited, 400 4th Avenue S.W., P.O. on the site. Box 100 Station M, Calgary, Alberta T2P 2H5, Canada. 20151385_Common_r1.indd 2 2/20/15 6:07 AM SHELL NEWS 3 VOLUNTEER AT ECO-MARATHON! Take part in the inaugural year of Eco- marathon’s move to Detroit by volunteering at the event, held Thursday, April 9 through Sunday, April 12, at the Cobo Center. Multiple days and shifts are available. Some of the volunteer opportunities include serving on the technical team or safety team, as a VIP tour guide, Energy Lab ambassador and providing track assistance. For more information, contact Vicky Moreno at [email protected]. PAVING THE WAY FOR ECO-MARATHON Work accelerates in Shell mileage challenge move to Detroit Preparations are already ramping up for this spring’s immense. Another, more visible benefit is the improvement to inaugural Shell Eco-marathon Americas in the Motor City. city street surfaces where the students will drive their low-slung, Efforts include fixing up downtown streets to withstand the futuristic vehicles. Shell’s $450,000 investment in the streets extreme efficiency cars planned, built and tested by thousands around the Cobo Convention Center, a hip district known as of students for the mileage competition. In all, more than 120 Campus Martius, and historic Woodward Avenue, will smooth high school and university teams from across the Americas downtown driving for Detroit residents as well. Improved are expected to compete on those newly paved Detroit streets streets also create a safer place for crowds to watch and Thursday, April 9 through Sunday, April 12. cheer on the teams. For more than 30 years, the Shell Eco-marathon series has Local civic and business leaders, including famed racing team challenged future engineers and scientists to go farther on owner Roger Penske, embraced and followed the annual less energy. Next year marks the first time this signature competition long before Shell selected Detroit as its host city. automotive competition will be held in the U.S. auto industry’s historic hometown. “We are excited that Shell chose Detroit to host its 2015 global competition. Not only is Shell bringing worldwide “We’re looking forward to bringing the Shell Eco-marathon to attention to our city, it is further showing its commitment to Detroit—in part to highlight the role that young talent and high Detroit by investing in improvements to several of the streets technology will play in the re-invention of this iconic American that will be a part of the Eco-marathon route. We appreciate city,” says Niel Golightly, Shell vice president of external affairs the benefits Shell’s partnership brings to Detroit,” says Mayor for the Americas. Mike Duggan. Investment in the future of Detroit and mobility Many in the region hope Shell Eco-marathon Americas Students are highly motivated and often work long nights, encourages people to give Detroit another look and attracts weekends and holidays, fine-tuning their designs and building future talent to the U.S. automotive businesses that call their concept cars. Many hope to one day work in the it home.“These students represent the next generation of automotive and energy industries. Their goal is simple: to drive the world’s future scientists and engineers. Being able to the farthest distance, over a closed downtown course, using showcase the city of Detroit and the future of mobility in the least amount of energy. Of course, setting a new record Detroit’s automotive industry will hopefully inspire these in the shadows of storied automotive headquarters, where students to consider our city and state as a place to be mobility’s future is being shaped, would be icing on the cake. educated and to live and work. I want to personally thank The economic and reputational impact of four days of events, Shell for bringing this terrific event to Detroit and for helping which attract visitors and interest from around the world, is improve our downtown’s infrastructure,” Penske says. « 20151385_Common.indd 3 2/13/15 5:36 PM 4 SHELL NEWS ONE YEAR LATER Integrated Operations Center impacts performance When 33-year Shell employee Sam Mabry found out he would n 46 days of continuous production without a process be moving from his enclosed office to the new open Integrated shutdown, only four months after startup Operations Center (IOC) for the commissioning of the Olympus n Ramp-up of new wells faster than planned tension leg platform (TLP) last year, he was one of the most n Elimination of 1,055 personnel-days offshore outspoken critics of this new way of working. “Those are world-class results,” says Jay Trussell, Olympus “How am I going to work in an environment where people are Operations manager. “We used the IOC/RCR to commission all around, without a quiet place to think and work,” the senior subsea equipment and two of the three subsea trees at Olympus. facilities engineer remembers saying. We opened downhole fluid loss isolation valves in the wells, optimized equipment operating conditions, reviewed bad A year later, he’s singing a different tune. “I can’t say enough actors in the alarm registers and ramped production in new about it,” Mabry says. “We have much better access to each wells. It is impossible to know how many platform trips were other. I didn’t think the change would be that dramatic,” he prevented by having those daily interactions, but there are key says of the IOC, an innovative, collaborative work environment business results that indicate the IOC was a key enabler to our that aligns people, work processes and technology so Gulf early success,” he says.