The Times of India: Shell ready to roll out gas stations in Q3
“Shell has licence to open up to 2,000 outlets”
SANJAY DUTTA
TIMES NEWS NETWORK TUESDAY, JULY 20, 2004
NEW DELHI: Petrogoods customers are in for a global experience from the third quarter of the current fiscal, with the government set to allow the world’s biggest retailer, Shell, to start running its gasoline stations.
Shell has submitted to oil ministry an audited report on completing investment in excess of Rs 2,000 crore in the oil sector. Once it is vetted, the company can start selling products. “We will be in the marketplace in the third quarter of the current fiscal. Our investment in the Hazira LNG project itself exceeds Rs 2,000 crore. There are others. We expect a clearance any day now,” Vikram Singh Mehta, who heads Shell’s India operations, said. Shell has licence to open up to 2,000 outlets but can only construct them at present and not start selling products till the investment is completed.
Mehta said Shell will invest up to Rs 200 crore on its retail plan in the first phase spanning two years but declined to divulge number of outlets that it will begin operations with. “The ballpark of Rs 2 crore per outlet is based on mistaken assumptions. Investment in each pump and the pace of rollout depends location, availability and cost of land, services and facilities being provided as also the time for statutory local clearances.”
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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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