Borneo Bulletin: From BSP to Shell EP
By Rosli Abidin Yahya
Chris Finlayson, Managing Director of Brunei Shell Petroleum (BSP) from 1995 to September last year, has been appointed as Chief Executive Officer of Shell Exploration and Production (Shell EP) in Africa with effect from October 1 this year.
Prior to his latest appointment, Finlayson was the Managing Director of Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria (SPDC), a post he held after leaving BSP.
Finlayson, 48, however will continue to be based in Lagos, Nigeria, and retain the role of Country Chair for Nigeria.
Finlayson will succeed Brian Ward, 57, who will retire after more than 36 years with Royal Dutch/Shell, in a career that has seen assignments in the Netherlands, Brunei, Malaysia, Nigeria, Argentina and the United Kingdom.
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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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