Channel News Asia: Shell fears swoop by French oil giant Total: report
“Shell has been shaken by a scandal involving the overestimation of its reserves of oil and gas.”
Posted: 16 August 2004
LONDON : The Anglo-Dutch oil company Royal Dutch Shell, one of the world’s biggest, is bracing itself for a raid by France’s Total.
“Insiders … fear Total will launch a raid,” the British Sunday newspaper the Observer said. “Total … is considered the only predator capable of gaining regulatory approval for what would be a spectacular merger.”
With a market capitalisation of 68 billion pounds (125 billion dollars), the Observer said, Total is smaller than Shell, worth 94 million pounds (173 billion dollars).
But Shell has been shaken by a scandal involving the overestimation of its reserves of oil and gas.
Shell and Total both refused to comment and the paper acknowledged that there was “no indication that board members or corporate advisers have spoken about a tie-up.”
– AFP
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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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