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By Ajay Makan in London: October 9, 2013 3:13 pm
A Royal Dutch Shell-led consortium has put up for sale a string of oil blocks in Nigeria, as international companies accelerate a retreat from sub-Saharan Africa’s oldest oil industry amid surging theft of crude and political uncertainty.
Posting by “Outsider” on our Shell Blog Wed, 9 Oct 2013. 10.08 am
It is common knowledge that BP, Exxon and Total (and possibly others) planned hostile bids for Shell after the reserves fiasco. Shell’s current under-performance in comparison with the market, together with huge write-offs on unconventionals and the Arctic suggest that some of these plans may be under consideration once again, perhaps with Chevron added to the list of potential bidders.
A US judicial panel is expected to make a decision in a matter of days on where the consolidated lawsuits by US trading firms against oil giants BP, Shell and Statoil will be heard… The lawsuits followed the European Commission’s investigation into the oil majors for alleged price manipulation back in May. BP, Shell and Platts declined to comment. 
by Suzie Neuwirth: October 9, 2013, 2:28am
A US judicial panel is expected to make a decision in a matter of days on where the consolidated lawsuits by US trading firms against oil giants BP, Shell and Statoil will be heard, City A.M. understands.
Around ten plaintiffs, including Chicago-based commodity trading house Prime International Trading, individually sued the oil majors earlier in the year for alleged manipulation of oil prices by relaying false information to price reporting agency Platts, dating back to the year 2000 until the present.
Contributed by: DeoBhagan
On October 4, Morgan Stanley Research Europe reported as follows:
This week we attended the Oil & Money conference in London, where a large number of company CEOs, energy ministers and industry experts presented. Below we focus on two presentations given by Shell CEO Peter Voser and Total CEO Christophe de Margerie. Combined, they highlight the ‘stress’ within the current energy system: capex must go up to meet future energy demand, but capex cannot go up because the industry already invests nearly all its cash flow and returns have become unattractive.
By Mike Sandiford on 9 October 2013
With the hype surrounding the US gas-boom, it’s something of a worrying and cautionary note to read in the Financial Times outgoing Shell CEO Peter Voser quoted as saying his “huge bet on US shale was a big regret of his time as chief executive of the companyâ€.
With a purported $24 billion invested in so-called unconventional oil and gas in North America, the FT reports Shell has recently taken a “$2.1 billion impairment against its assets†with Voser quoted as saying “Unconventionals did not exactly play out as plannedâ€.
At a recent event at the Council on Foreign Relations, Total‘s CEO did not mince words about the risks of drilling for oil in the Arctic: It’s risky, and the chances of an oil spill in the region is simply too great for Total to justify investing in oil exploration there. While there are differing opinions across the oil space regarding if and how we should explore drilling in the Arctic, de Margerie’s statements raise a very poignant question for oil and gas investors: How much are our energy investments at risk of a “giant killer”-type accident? Let’s take a look at the risks involved in Arctic drilling and who is involved in the Arctic.
Investors in Royal Dutch Shell are more than likely starting to get a little frustrated with the company’s poor performance. Over the past three years, Shell has had a total return of only 17.5% while the S&P 500 has produced a total return of over 55% during that time frame. To make matters worse, the company has decided to scrap its production targets because it would not be able to make a decent enough return on those targets.
Shell has a lot of work to do in order to turn the ship around, but there are few obstacles in its way that could make it even more difficult. Let’s take a look at three of those threats that could further impact the woes of Shell.
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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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