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Shell to cut 2,200 more jobs in face of weak oil prices

Reuters - UK Focus

(Updates throughout)

LONDON, May 25 (Reuters) - Royal Dutch Shell (Xetra: A0ET6Q - news) will cut a further 2,200 jobs, taking its target for layoffs to 12,500 by the end of the year, the Anglo-Dutch oil firm said on Wednesday, as it cuts deeper in the face of weak oil prices.

Shell (LSE: RDSB.L - news) let go 7,500 staff and direct contractors last year and previously said 2,800 jobs would be cut with the integration of BG Group (EUREX: 1007667.EX - news) .

Whilst the cuts are small in comparison to the overall amount of people employed in the oil and gas industry, Shell's 12,500 job reductions are equal to the entire workforce of social media company Facebook (NasdaqGS: FB - news) .

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The combined Shell-BG company employed around 94,600 staff at the end of 2015.

Shell announced that out of the additional 2,200 job losses, 475 will come from its upstream UK and Ireland (Other OTC: IRLD - news) business.

"Despite the improvements that we have made to our business, current market conditions remain challenging," said Paul Goodfellow (Toronto: GDL.TO - news) , Shell's vice president for UK & Ireland, after breaking the news to employees in Scotland's Aberdeen.

The oil major has significantly reduced its annual spending target to below $30 billion and is selling $30 billion worth of assets to weather weak oil prices which brought its 2015 earnings to the lowest in over a decade.

Shell said it expects net job losses in 2016 to be lower than 5,000 due to recruitment in IT (Other OTC: ITGL - news) and at the graduate level.

Shell started offering employees in Britain and the Netherlands voluntary redundancy last month. (Reporting by Ron Bousso and Karolin Schaps, editing by Louise Heavens)