Mon Oct 29, 2007 3:16am GMT
BEIJING, Oct 29 (Reuters) – Royal Dutch Shell (RDSa.L: Quote, Profile, Research) expects its Chinese naphtha cracker to meet or surpass its design annual capacity of 800,000 tonnes this year and next, a top executive said on Monday.
The cracker in southern Guangdong province operated at 94 percent of capacity in the first nine months of this year, up from 85 percent last year, Rob Routs, Shell Group Executive Director Downstream told a group of reporters.
“Annual production this year will meet design capacity if not more,” Routs said. “Next year they promised me it will be at the same level.”
The cracker, built in partnership with China National Offshore Oil Company (CNOOC) (0883.HK: Quote, Profile, Research)(CEO.N: Quote, Profile, Research), is Shell’s single largest energy investment in China. The plant started operation in late 2005.
When asked whether record crude prices of above $92 a barrel were affecting global fuel demand, Routs said: “We are not seeing it right now, the only place we are seeing it is in Europe and I’m not sure if that’s price related or environmentally related.”
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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.
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