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Tue 27 Mar 2012, 13:21 GMT

Shell's fuel oil head resigns


Team leader at Shell's fuel oil desk is said to be joining rival firm Vitol.

Dominique Laborde [pictured], team leader at the fuel oil trading desk of Shell International Eastern Trading Co, has resigned from his position to join rival firm Vitol, according to industry sources.

Laborde is understood to have resigned from the oil major's Asia fuel oil trading team last week and is now serving three months' gardening leave. He is expected to begin his new job at Vitol's Houston office around the middle of the year.

Guido Sjibers, who has been at Shell's Singapore office for almost two years, is team leader in an acting capacity, sources said.

Laborde is the second team leader in a year to leave Shell's fuel oil desk to join Vitol. In 2011, his predecessor Jurgen van Herk joined Vitol's Singapore office, where he still works.

Other changes within Shell's trading team in the last month include the addition of Austral Chang and Ranggau Muda, who returned to the Asia fuel oil desk after spending three years in London. Singapore's Jeremy Loy has been posted to Rotterdam after having worked at the Asia desk for three years.

Please find below a summary of Dominique Laborde's career.

Regional Fuel Oil Team leader, Shell International Eastern Trading Co, Singapore
May 2011 – Present

Fuel Trader, Shell Trading International, Singapore
April 2009 – July 2011

Fuel Oil Trader, Shell Trading International, Rotterdam
June 2007 – March 2009

Crude Supply Chain Optimizer, Shell Downstream Europe, London
2004 – 2007

Feedstock Supply Chain optimizer, Motiva, Houston
2002 – 2004

Unit Manager Oil Movements and Utilities, Shell France, Reichstett
1998 – 2002

Refinery Economist, Shell France Manufacturing, Berre
1996 – 1998

Refinery Projects, Shell France Manufacturing, Berre
1995-1996

Contact details for Vitol's trading office in Houston have been provided below.

Vitol Inc.
1100 Louisiana Street
Suite 5500
Houston, TX 77002-5255
United States of America

Tel +1 713 230 1000
Fax +1 713 230 1111

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