Planet Ark: Shell world record wells pump gas from 2 miles deep
UK: July 1, 2004
LONDON – A pair of offshore wells pumped their first gas last week from record-breaking depths more than two miles (3.2 km) below the waves, operating company Royal Dutch/Shell (RD.AS: Quote, Profile, Research) (SHEL.L: Quote, Profile, Research) said yesterday.
Shell said the twin Coulomb wells in the Gulf of Mexico would eventually produce more than 100 million cubic feet of gas a day to help feed the United States’ daily diet of 61 billion cubic feet.
Coulomb C-3, the deepest of the pair by just five feet at 7,570 feet, or 2.307 miles, is owned two thirds by Shell and one third by Petrobras (PER.BA: Quote, Profile, Research) , the state owned Brazilian firm. Its twin, C-2, 100 percent owned by Shell, started producing on July 23, and is already pumping 65 million cubic feet a day.
“These wells represent key industry and Shell firsts,” said Guardie Banister, Shell’s technical director for the Americas region.
Producers are going after oil and gas in deeper water and in increasingly remote and hostile environments worldwide, as the output of their traditional hunting grounds peaks and world demand continues to grow.
Deepwater wells in the Gulf of Mexico and off the coast of West Africa are already taking the place of maturing fields in shallower offshore waters.
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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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