Reuters Canada: Shell Canada pays C$85 mln for B.C. acreage
Friday 24 June 2005
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Shell Canada Ltd. has acquired a large tract of land in northeastern British Columbia for C$85 million ($69 million) as it looks to repeat recent gas drilling success, the company said on Thursday.
Shell Canada, the country’s No. 2 oil producer and refiner, said it picked up 58,000 acres in the Deep Basin area and it expects to start drilling next winter.
The company has been boosting exploration efforts in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, and in 2004 made a large gas discovery after reexamining lands it has drilled for years.
The Tay River discovery in western Alberta uncovered estimated reserves of 650 billion to 850 billion cubic feet, making it one of the biggest Canadian onshore finds in recent years.
At the Reuters Energy Summit in New York this week, Shell Canada chief executive Clive Mather said his company expects to at least maintain spending levels on gas exploration along the Rockies due to his belief there is much more gas to be found.
“We certainly are determined to prove ourselves right or wrong,” Mather said.
The Canadian arm of Royal Dutch/Shell Group said the 12 new parcels, acquired in a British Columbia government land sale, are adjacent to acreage in neighboring Alberta it acquired last year.
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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.
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