By Laura Chesters For The Daily Mail:
It was the end of an era for staff at Thames Valley Park HQ in Reading yesterday as gas giant BG Group ceased to exist
By Monday, BG will be part of Anglo-Dutch giant Royal Dutch Shell after a £35billion takeover.
The new group is now the world’s biggest trader of liquefied natural gas.
BG Group came into being in 1997 when it was demerged from British Gas.
BG employed 5,000 people from 70 countries.
During its existence it said that its geologists and geophysicists had helped find 17 giant hydrocarbon discoveries – each with recoverable resources of more than 500million barrels of oil equivalent or 3 trillion cubic feet of gas.
Helge Lund, BG’s outgoing chief executive, said yesterday: ‘I would like to thank our shareholders and they will continue to benefit from BG’s assets and capabilities as part of the combined business, which I am confident has a strong future.’
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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A head-cut image of Alfred Donovan (now deceased) appears courtesy of The Wall Street Journal.
