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The Way Ahead Interview invites senior figures that shape our E&P industry to share their wisdom, experience, and deep knowledge with the young E&P professional community. Each interview is an open conversation that explores the careers, advice, and vision of these successful individuals. Each interview aims to reveal new insights and valuable lessons. It is hoped that these interviews will help young E&P professionals learn how to nurture their own personal skills, understand the nature and challenges of our industry, and grasp the technologies, developments, and issues that are key to creating our industry's future. For this interview, we travel to the cosmopolitan city of The Hague in The Netherlands, a country famed for its tulips, canals, and bicycles--as well as some of the world's largest multinational companies and international organizations. I joined Jeroen van der Veer for good Dutch "koffie" and a candid conversation at the headquarters of Royal Dutch Shell, the new company created by unification of Shell Transport and Royal Dutch only a week earlier.