The Times: Strategy to emerge from Shell
“The oil company’s annual strategy presentation, to be held today in London, is viewed as a crucial test for Shell’s senior directors. Analysts are looking for evidence that Shell can fill the gap left by the removal from its proven reserves of 4.4 billion barrels of oil and gas.”
By Carl Mortished
September 22, 2004
HOPES that Shell would announce further disposals this morning pushed the Anglo-Dutch company’s stock to a 12-month high of 432p yesterday.
The oil company’s annual strategy presentation, to be held today in London, is viewed as a crucial test for Shell’s senior directors. Analysts are looking for evidence that Shell can fill the gap left by the removal from its proven reserves of 4.4 billion barrels of oil and gas. They are likely to focus on Nigeria and Oman, key areas where the company was forced to discount reserves in January.
Attention will also focus on Shell’s disposal strategy, in particular the sale of Basell, the chemicals joint venture with BASF of Germany. Blackstone Group, the private equity firm, is believed to be scrutinising Basell, a leading manufacturer of bulk chemicals that could generate €6 billion (£4 billion) in proceeds. In addition, Shell is believed to be keen to sell its stake in Intergen, a power generation venture with Bechtel.
Shell will also emphasise the potential of the Athabasca oil sands project in which Shell’s Canadian subsidiary is investing $4 billion during the next five years. The mining project extracts and refines bitumen from oily sands and Shell plans to increase production to 290,000 barrels a day by 2010.
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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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