Shell ‘to spare Aberdeen in job cuts’

ABERDEEN looks to have been spared in the latest round of cuts by oil giant Shell, it was revealed today.

It has emerged the oil firm wants to axe 1,000 positions worldwide.

Shell has not said exactly where the latest cuts in its 101,000-strong worldwide workforce would be.

But Shell’s chief executive Peter Voser has said it would fall mainly on downstream and corporate roles.

It is understood that it is unlikely that Aberdeen, where Shell employs about 1,800 people and is the hub for the firm’s UK upstream activities, will be affected.

The cuts are part of oil firm Shell’s plans for about £660 million of savings in 2010 and 2,000 job cuts by the end of 2011.