"WPLWhat year was it that Shell wanted to take over Woodside and...

"WPL
What year was it that Shell wanted to take over Woodside and Costello gave the big NO, and the price per share Shell offered?"

year - April 2001 - see below link for commentary.

http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2001/s281817.htm

dropped 12% it says or $1b, which means it was worth ?$8. T/O was for $10b.

Note the US dollar was only worth 51.95c falling to 50.5 with the announcement!! Now worth 33B(Aust).

http://bigcharts.marketwatch.com/quickchart/quickchart.asp?symb=au%3Awpl&sid=0&o_symb=au%3Awpl&freq=2&time=13

for 10yr chart looks as if the changes in 2001 had hardly any changes despite the tempoary drop.