Reuters.com: At least three die in Shell Nigeria oil well fire
Posted 19 May 04
LAGOS, May 18 (Reuters) – At least three people died in a fire that engulfed Royal Dutch Shell’s disused Afam Well-16 in southeastern Nigeria, the company said on Tuesday.
Shell, Nigeria’s biggest producer, said in a statement the dead were members of a gang of suspected oil thieves who ruptured parts of the wellhead. A helicopter overfly sighted a burning tanker at the scene.
Shell said it had mobilised oil well fire experts Boots and Coots International to the facility because of the “intensity and complexity” of the inferno which has been raging since Sunday.
“Casualty figures are not known but it appears that three people may have died,” the statement said.
The Anglo-Dutch oil giant said it had informed appropriate government and regulatory agencies about the fire at the well in Oyigbo district of Rivers state.
Shell withdrew from the Afam field in 1999 after a string of violent attacks by local militants.
Oil theft is common in Nigeria’s southern region where scores of suspected thieves have been arrested by the navy in the last few months.
Copyright 2004, Reuters News Service
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.
