Tue 6 Mar 2007
FRANK URQUHART
SHELL, the oil giant, was served with ten improvement notices relating to its offshore operations last year by the government’s Health and Safety Executive (HSE) – the highest of any of the North Sea’s main operators, it emerged yesterday.
The HSE said the number of notices reflected continuing concerns over Shell’s need to improve its performance, two years after it was fined a record £900,000 for safety failings which led to a massive gas escape in 2003 on the giant Brent Bravo installation in which two men died.
It was revealed yesterday that one of the improvement notices served on Shell last year concerned the maintenance of oil export pipework related to a platform in the Brent field.
A spokesman for the HSE said: “The number of notices we have served on Shell reflects the fact that we have had concerns about their performance offshore. We will continue, wherever our inspectors judge it appropriate, to serve notices requiring improvements to be made, or stop activities we think give rise to unnecessary risk.”
The spokesman said the situation involving Shell was far from unique and some 12,000 improvement notices were served every year in the various industries regulated by the agency.
A spokeswoman for Shell declined to comment, but a company source said none of the notices concerned platform-critical equipment.
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Royal Dutch Shell conspired directly with Hitler, financed the Nazi Party, was anti-Semitic and sold out its own Dutch Jewish employees to the Nazis. Shell had a close relationship with the Nazis during and after the reign of Sir Henri Deterding, an ardent Nazi, and the founder and decades long leader of the Royal Dutch Shell Group. His burial ceremony, which had all the trappings of a state funeral, was held at his private estate in Mecklenburg, Germany. The spectacle (photographs below) included a funeral procession led by a horse drawn funeral hearse with senior Nazis officials and senior Royal Dutch Shell directors in attendance, Nazi salutes at the graveside, swastika banners on display and wreaths and personal tributes from Adolf Hitler and Reichsmarschall, Hermann Goring. Deterding was an honored associate and supporter of Hitler and a personal friend of Goring.
Deterding was the guest of Hitler during a four day summit meeting at Berchtesgaden. Sir Henri and Hitler both had ambitions on Russian oil fields. Only an honored personal guest would be rewarded with a private four day meeting at Hitler’s mountain top retreat.
IN JULY 2007, MR BILL CAMPBELL (ABOVE, A RETIRED GROUP AUDITOR OF SHELL INTERNATIONAL SENT AN EMAIL TO EVERY UK MP AND MEMBER OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS: 
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