TY  - ADVS
AU  - Messenger,Terry
ED  - BBC worldwide
TI  - Shell shocked
PY  - 2004///]
CY  - North Sydney, NSW
PB  - BBC Worldwide
KW  - Petroleum industry and trade
N1  - Title from title screen
N2  - Royal Dutch/Shell was seen as the safest of havens for money invested by insurance companies and pension funds. If you needed a safe, steady return on your money, you could, as the slogan declares, always'be sure of Shell'. But on 9th January 2004, the oil giant stunned the financial world by confessing to a 20% exaggeration of its proven oil reserves. Shell's share price crashed and 3 billion pounds was wiped off the value of people's investments. How did this gross over-exaggeration happen?
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