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7/3/2010 9:32 PM ET
RTTNews) – Oil giant BP plc (BP: News ,BP.L: News ) may replace Chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg and Chief Executive officer Tony Hayward after the leaking oil well in the Gulf of Mexico is capped, the Financial Times reported Saturday, citing several leading shareholders and people close to the company. Shareholders are set to demand a boardroom shake-up at the company in the wake of the disaster, which has more than halved the value of BP’s shares since April.
The procedure, known as a safety case, was developed in Britain after the catastrophic Piper Alpha oil rig explosion of 1988 in which 167 people lost their lives.
Royal Dutch Shell confirmed that it always develops safety cases a lengthy written document on each of its thousands of wells in the world, even though they are only mandatory in some countries.
However, BP admitted to The Sunday Telegraph that it does not use safety cases on any of its US wells, including the high-pressure deep water Macondo well from which up to 60,000 barrels of oil per day are still leaking in the Gulf of Mexico.
By John Donovan
Last week came news of the outcome of an “unjust enrichment” case in the US courts against Royal Dutch Shell Plc relating to alleged misuse of information disclosed in confidence to the company by the veteran American oilman, Jack J. Grynberg.
Grynberg disclosed confidential information to Shell concerning an oil and gas fields opportunity in Kazakhstan. Shell then allegedly “went around Grynberg and directly to Kazakhstan officials, cutting Grynberg out of the deal. The extract is from a Court Opinion and Order relating to the Pricaspian Development Corporation, the company which brought the action against Royal Dutch Shell plc.
By John Donovan
Links to our articles over recent years about alleged IP theft by Royal Dutch Shell…
Royal Dutch Shell Intellectual Property Pirates
ENERTAG PATENTS: MORE ROYAL DUTCH SHELL IP CHICANERY?
Tips on suing Royal Dutch Shell for theft of Intellectual Property
Legal proceedings against Shell in Houston for fraud and theft of intellectual property
Shell prosecuted for fraud and theft of intellectual property”
Warning to the new partner in Shell Technology Ventures Fund 1 BV
From Fred Bridgland in Nigeria: 4 Jul 2010
The delta of the 2,600-mile-long Niger River is one of the richest sources of oil on the planet.
But it has also been dubbed the world capital of pollution with countless thousands of recorded oil leaks in recent decades amounting to at least 15 million barrels spilled, according to best estimates.
Occurring over some 50 years since oil production first began in the 270,000 square mile delta, Nigerias environmental tragedy has never received the international attention given to the BP/Transcontinental Deepwater Horizon oil-spill disaster off the coast of the United States in the Gulf of Mexico.
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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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MORE DETAILS: After a solicitor acting for Shell threatened to make the litigation "drawn out and difficult" with the intention of draining the resources of a financially weaker opponent, my late father (Alfred Donovan) and I decided to mount a wide-ranging campaign as a counter-measure. We jointly founded the Shell Corporate Conscience Pressure Group, which nearly 15% of Shell UK retailers joined. We regularly conducted ethical surveys involving up to 1500 Shell petrol stations. All responses were opened and authenticated by an independent solicitor who supplied Affidavits confirming the results. In whole page announcements in trade magazines (examples above) we challenged Shell to commission and publish the resuits of independent research asking the same questions and offering respondents GUARANTEED anonymity. Shell never took up the invitation. Instead it asked the UK Advertising Standards Authority to investigate our Shell surveys. No problems were found. The head-cut image of Alfred Donovan appears courtesy of The Wall Street Journal. 
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A head-cut image of Alfred Donovan (now deceased) appears courtesy of The Wall Street Journal.
