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Woodside Petroleum had become under previous chief executive Don Voelte....

True story: A former employee emailed Mr Don Voelte (CEO Woodside Petroleum) his reasons for quitting.

February Don Voelte appointed chief executive.

Woodside Petroleum had become under previous chief executive Don Voelte.

Martin Ferguson took up a position as head of natural resources for Seven Group Holdings just six months after retiring as energy and resources minister.

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Putting fizz into Woodside wasn't easy: Voelte

Outgoing Woodside Petroleum chief executive Don Voelte has spoken of the substantial opposition he faced from employees when he arrived in Perth seven years ago and said just 30 per cent of staff backed his vision to reinvigorate Australia's biggest oil and gas company.

In a candid _The West Australian _Leadership Matters address to mark the end of his Woodside reign, an at-times emotional Mr Voelte gave an insight into a company he described as devoid of aspiration and spirit when he arrived in early 2004.

Mr Voelte told more than 550 Perth business and political leaders he was confronted by a Woodside which appeared content to be just the operator of the North West Shelf and with a mentality that it was a Royal Dutch Shell operating company.

(Shell owned 34 per cent of Woodside). In fact, said Mr Voelte, Woodside in 2004 was little changed from a decade earlier when he, on behalf of his employer Mobil, eyed the company as