By LAURA CHESTERS FOR THE DAILY MAIL
Royal Dutch Shell’s swoop on BG Group will face a series of hurdles including competition fears and questions over the ownership of some of its newly acquired assets.
The £47billion acquisition of BG will make Shell the largest foreign oil company in Brazil – but there are concerns about its assets in the South American nation.
One of Shell’s main reasons to pounce on BG was its large holdings in Brazil. But many of the assets there are owned through joint ventures, which gives the partners first refusal to buy BG’s share in the projects if it is taken over.
This clause, called pre-emption rights, could derail one of the main motives for the deal.
BG’s partners in lucrative exploration blocks are Petrobras and Repsol Sinopec Brasil.
Experts predict Petrobras, which is facing a bribery scandal at home, will not be keen to exercise its right to buy BG’s stake due to a lack of funds.
Shell already has partnerships with Petrobras in other areas of the world.
But there are worries that Chinese state-controlled Sinopec could mount a bid for BG’s stakes.
There could also be pre-emption rights in relation to BG’s stake in Karachaganak, a field in Kazakhstan, a less-strategic location for Shell.
The mega-deal also faces a host of regulatory obstacles, likely to include competition probes.
Shell chief executive Ben van Beurden acknowledged this week that the takeover will face scrutiny in countries including Australia, Brazil, China and the EU.
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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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