壳牌董事长：不会放弃能源，但我们的业务将进化

    石油巨头壳牌公司董事长贺利德表示，该公司将根据它参与创建的一个行业委员会所采集的数据进行改革，即便这些数据意味着壳牌需要退出目前的业务。贺利德在9月28日于奥斯丁召开的《财富》能源头脑风暴大会上宣布，壳牌将加入由16个成员组成的能源转型委员会。

    贺利德表示：“在这个委员会中，有9个成员并不是石油公司。”这意味着，尽管壳牌等化石燃料公司将拥有较大的话语权，但它们并不能否决或废除委员会的调查结果。此外，贺利德表示，壳牌领导层将采取基于事实的方式，接受该委员会的建议。他表示，对壳牌来说，这是自然而然的选择。在应用“情境规划法”方面，它是将此作为决策工具的先驱。

    贺利德表示：“我们相信，壳牌公司能够提供有用的视角。我们进行情景规划已有40年时间。该委员会将给出一个答案，即便它不是CEO想要的答案。”

    贺利德将成立一个石油行业委员会的想法归功于全球咨询公司麦肯锡。他表示，该委员会首先将关注太阳能和空气污染等问题。其最终目标是绘制一副完整的能源行业未来蓝图，而不仅是石油行业喜闻乐见的版本。

    当被问到在未来几年，壳牌是否仍将是一家能源公司时，他回答说，应该是。不过，他还是向我们提前描述了壳牌预见的一些核心业务的变迁（至少是传递了一种信息）。他说道：“世界总是需要我们的系统和分发能力的。”下一个问题是，具体到石油和天然气上，世界对壳牌这些业务的需求还能持续多久？（财富中文网）

    译者：刘进龙/汪皓

    审校：任文科

    Chad Holliday, chairman of oil giant Shell, said Monday the company aims to change according to data gathered by a new industry commission it is helping to form—even if the information leads it away from its current businesses. Shell will be part of the 16-member Energy Transitions Commission, which he announced at Fortune Brainstorm E, an energy and environment conference in Austin. (Fortune’s Brian Dumaine previewed many of the details of the commission earlier Monday.)

    Nine members of the commission “don’t get a paycheck from an oil company,” Holliday said. This means that while fossil-fuel companies like Shell will have a large say in the commission’s output, it will not be able to veto or suppress its findings. Moreover, Holliday said Shell’s leadership would take a fact-based approach to following the commission’s recommendations. This comes naturally to Shell, he said, which was a pioneer of so-called corporate scenario planning as a decision making tool.

    Said Holliday: “We do believe the Shell company can bring perspectives that are useful. We’ve been doing scenario planning for 40 years. [The commission is] going to come up with an answer. Even if the CEO doesn’t like the answer.”

    Holliday credited global consultant McKinsey for coming to the oil industry with the idea for the commission. He said it will look initially at issues like solar energy and air pollution. The goal, he said, is to paint of picture of where the energy industry is going—as opposed to where the oil industry would like it to go.

    Asked if in years to come Shell will still be an energy company, he said it would. But he previewed the pivot Shell sees, at least from a messaging perspective. “The world needs our systems capability and our distribution capability,” he said. The next question will be how long the world will need Shell’s oil and gas.