Reuters: Shell says Mars platform damaged after Katrina
Tuesday 30 August 2005
Tue Aug 30, 2005 10:25 AM BST
LONDON (Reuters) – Royal Dutch Shell said an aerial inspection of its Mars platform in the Gulf of Mexico indicated some damage to its upper deck following the passing of Hurricane Katrina.
“A fixed-wing reconnaissance flight has completed a preliminary assessment of damage to Shell’s GoM assets. An early report indicates Shell’s Mars platform has sustained topside damage,” Shell (RDSa.L: Quote, Profile, Research)(RDSb.L: Quote, Profile, Research) said on its website, in a message dated August 29.
Mars, which produces around 147,000 barrels of oil and 157 million cubic feet of gas per day, is 71.5 percent owned by operator Shell with 28.5 percent held by rival BP (BP.L: Quote, Profile, Research).
A BP spokeswoman said on Tuesday that BP staff had not observed any damage at its Mad Dog, Holstein, NaKika, Marlin, Horn Mountain and some of its near shore continental shelf platforms during an aerial assessment.
During the overflight, BP staff saw a floating rig, the ENSCO 7500.
All of BP’s 350,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day of Gulf of Mexico output of oil and gas production was shut on Tuesday, the spokeswoman said.
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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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