THE BUSINESS: FTSE dominance beckons for oil and gas
Sunday 26 June 2005
By: Richard Orange
THE oil and gas sector is set to depose the financial sector as the most valuable on London’s FTSE index within months of Royal Dutch Petroleum merging with Shell Transport and Trading on July 20.
Shareholders meet on Tuesday to vote on whether to merge the two companies, setting in motion a process that index analysts expect to lead to the first change in the top FTSE sector since banks jumped in front of telecoms as the technology bubble burst in 2000.
It will be the first time the oil and gas sector has been dominant, as measured by today’s FTSE classifications, since it held thrall in the 1980s.
When Royal Dutch leaves the Amsterdam stock exchange and begins trading on a single listing with Shell Transport and Trading, going under the name of Royal Dutch Shell, it will add an extra 72bn (E108bn, $131bn) in value to the oil sector on the FTSE.
On Friday’s prices this would boost the market value of the oil sector to some 271.4bn from 199.5bn, bringing it neck and neck with a financial sector, worth 274bn.
Robert Parks, UK equity strategist for HSBC said: “The two sectors have been going in completely different directions this year – banks have been pretty weak. The way prices have been moving that gap could soon be lost. A daily move could push it ahead.”
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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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