THE TIMES (UK): Need to Know: Global Business Briefing: Natural Resources
By Neelam Verjee and Joe Bolger
May 11, 2005
Natural Resources
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Royal Dutch/Shell, the Anglo-Dutch oil group, has signed an exploration deal with Naftogaz of Ukraine to explore 30,000 sq km within the Dniepr-Donets basin.
BG Group, which said that first-quarter pre-tax profits were up 30 per cent to £438 million, accelerated the development of its Egyptian liquefied natural gas business after confirming that the first cargo shipments should be three months ahead of schedule.
Harmony Gold Mining is free to pursue its hostile $4.2 billion (£2.2 billion) takeover of Gold Fields, its larger rival, after South Africa’s competition tribunal approved the bid.
Afren, the Africa-focused oil and gas company, is expected to appoint Brian O’Cathain, formerly of Tullow Oil, as chief executive and Osman Shahenshah as chief financial officer. It will also name Peter Bingham as non-executive director and chairman of the audit committee.
This website and sisters royaldutchshellplc.com, shellnazihistory.com, royaldutchshell.website, johndonovan.website, and shellnews.net, are owned by John Donovan. There is also a Wikipedia segment.
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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A head-cut image of Alfred Donovan (now deceased) appears courtesy of The Wall Street Journal.
