WoodsideSir,The hostile takeover by Shell is not unusual in contemporary, international, aggressive companies, except for the following: Shell is a gargantuan company, with $300 billion turnover and a latest year-ended profit of $24.8 billion; a turnover greater than the GDP of all but a handful of the nations of the world. Once a company is caught up in the tentacles of the Anglo-Dutch giant it vanishes forever – not even an empty carapace remains when it is discarded. Woodside is a non-predat…
