The page you are looking at now is on the World Wide Web (WWW), meaning that it is accessible to any member of the public with a connection to the Internet. Many large companies also maintain their own internal websites, which are only accessible from company computers. Shell is no exception, and maintains its own Shell Wide Web (SWW). Employees of Shell companies which are connected to the SWW therefore have access to a great deal more information about expatriate services.

This is a quick guide to help Shell employees and their families at home find out what expatriate information is available within the Shell wide web. Unless you are actually sitting at a Shell computer now, you will not be able to access the two "sww.shell.com" sites listed below. This is merely to make you aware that additional expatriation information is available to anyone who has access to the Shell Wide Web.

If you have questions on any of the items below, please use the contacts provided in the relevant pages. OUTPOST cannot provide further information relating to the details contained in Shell company websites or the location of individual Shell staff. Please access the "Making Connections" pages in the Shell Corporate Website if you wish to make contact with a Shell company or employee.

Shell EXPAT PLAZA on the Shell Wide Web (SWW): http://sww.shell.com/expat/welcome.html

This site is being developed under the responsibility of Shell's Human Resources Expatriate Transfer Services department in The Hague, and it is intended that Shell companies worldwide will place information here relating to their own locations.

This site contains:

• Description of Expat Plaza.

• Location-specific information, such as Notes for Guidance for incoming expatriates, and photo galleries of housing and the general environment.

• General expatriate terms and conditions.

• Leave houses - properties available for short term let to expatriates on home leave.

• Links to OUTPOST, and to the Spouse Employment Consultant.

OUTPOST on the SWW:
http://sww.shell.com/hs/outpost

The content of this site is developed by OUTPOST.

It contains:

• Description of OUTPOST services and contacts in The Hague.

• Location of Information Network Centres worldwide, with brief description and contacts.

• Country information in the OUTPOST Library.

• Location of Briefers worldwide.

• Briefer Questionnaire - if you are an expatriate with recent experience which you are willing to share, please fill this in!

• Highlights from "Destinations", the quarterly magazine from OUTPOST.

• The Hague Welcoming Committee - details and contacts.

• OUTPOST staff.

• Other notices, eg. vacancies in the OUTPOST team.

• Links to the OUTPOST worldwide website (i.e. the WWW rather than the SWW site), to Shell Human Resources Expatriate Services and to the Spouse Employment Consultant.