Shell Evacuates Workers From Gulf on Storm Threat (Update1)
By Nesa Subrahmaniyan
Aug. 28 (Bloomberg) — Royal Dutch Shell Plc, Europe’s biggest oil company, said it has evacuated about 400 workers from its oil and natural-gas platforms in the Gulf of Mexico because of Tropical Storm Gustav.
The company will move another 270 workers today and plans to evacuate the remaining 600 personnel tomorrow and Saturday, Robin Lebovitz, a Shell spokeswoman, said in an e-mailed statement.
“We are working toward a full evacuation of Shell-operated assets in the Gulf, based on predictions that Tropical Storm Gustav will strengthen again into a hurricane and cross the Gulf of Mexico this weekend,” she said.
Production from Shell’s east and west Gulf of Mexico fields could be cut as early as today, Lebovitz said in the statement.
Exxon Mobil Corp., the world’s biggest publicly traded oil company, said production hasn’t been affected and none of its workers have been evacuated so far.
The company said it is preparing for “heavy weather associated” with Gustav along its Gulf Coast oil and gas operations and assessing which platforms may be in the way of the storm and also identifying workers that may need to be evacuated. The company’s refineries are operating normally while safety procedures have been initiated, it said on its Web Site.
To contact the reporter of this story: Nesa Subrahmaniyan in Singapore at[email protected].
Last Updated: August 28, 2008 01:36 EDT
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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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