{"id":518992,"date":"2022-09-03T09:50:29","date_gmt":"2022-09-03T04:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=518992"},"modified":"2022-09-03T10:43:38","modified_gmt":"2022-09-03T05:13:38","slug":"shells-ceo-ben-van-beurden-prepares-to-step-down-next-year-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/shells-ceo-ben-van-beurden-prepares-to-step-down-next-year-reports\/","title":{"rendered":"Shell&#8217;s CEO Ben van Beurden prepares to step down next year: Reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shell has shortlisted four candidates to succeed Chief Executive Ben van Beurden who is preparing to step down next year after nearly a decade at the helm of the giant energy firm, two company sources told Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>During his tenure van Beurden oversaw Shell&#8217;s biggest acquisition in decades and steered the company through two major downturns and a pivotal move to slash greenhouse emissions, a task which will only grow in importance for his successor.<\/p>\n<p>Shell&#8217;s board succession committee, headed by Chairman Andrew Mackenzie, has met several times in recent months to draw up plans for van Beurden&#8217;s departure and interview potential successors to the 64-year-old Dutchman, the sources said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shell has shortlisted four candidates to succeed Chief Executive Ben van Beurden who is preparing to step down next year after nearly a decade at the helm of the giant energy firm, two company sources told Reuters. During his tenure van Beurden oversaw Shell&#8217;s biggest acquisition in decades and steered the company through two major downturns and a pivotal move to slash greenhouse emissions, a task which will only grow in importance for his successor. Shell&#8217;s board succession committee, headed by Chairman Andrew Mackenzie, has met several times in recent months to draw up plans for van Beurden&#8217;s departure and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-518992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=518992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518992\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}