After testing was conducted by the drill ship Stena IceMax, the Monterey Jack well site is going to be permanently capped. (Contributed)
JAMES RISDON: 13 Jan 2017
Drilling has wrapped up at Shell Canada’s Monterey Jack exploratory well site in the Shelburne Basin.
“(Shell Canada is) now taking steps to permanently seal the well in accordance with the Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Board’s regulatory requirements,” Cameron Yost, a spokesman for the oil company, said in an interview Friday.
“This involves the installation and testing of multiple barriers in the wellbore,” he said.
Although the drilling work was completed Thursday, Shell Canada won’t know the results of that exploratory program until its personnel has analyzed its data.
Crews aboard the Stena IceMax drillship started work at the Monterey Jack site on Sept. 25, roughly a week after wrapping up work at another site in the Shelburne basin, the Cheshire exploratory well, about 250 km south of Halifax.
The Cheshire well was capped in mid-September after drilling there failed to turn up commercially-viable quantities of hydrocarbons.
The Monterey Jack well site is about 120km southwest of Cheshire, an area where the ocean floor is structurally different.
Shell Canada undertook the Shelburne Basin Offshore Exploration Drilling Project because the region’s resource potential is still largely unknown, said Yost in September last year.
The oil company already has the operations authorization it needs to drill up to seven wells in the Shelburne Basin.
That means Shell Canada could still save up to two years on the time it would need to get approval to drill an additional five exploratory wells, said an official with the Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Board last year.
Shell Canada is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Netherlands-based Royal Dutch Shell and primarily trades on the London Stock Exchange.
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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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