Lloyds List: Licensing round is North Sea’s ‘most successful’
“ExxonMobil and Shell gained the largest ever licence awarded in the UK North Sea, gaining 20 blocks in a 1.2m acre area of the Mid-North Sea High area 90 miles east of Newcastle.”
Friday Sept 09, 2005
Martyn Wingrove
OIL and gas exploration markets in the North Sea received a further boost when the British government awarded a record 152 licences in the 23rd offshore round.
Up to 99 oil and gas companies were awarded a total of 264 exploration blocks, with 24 new entrants gaining opportunities to invest in the sector.
Energy Minister Malcolm Wicks described the round as the most successful since 1964 and is impressed how companies are driving to explore for more oil and gas resources.
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.
