By Tim Webb
Published: 28 May 2006
Shell and Norwegian oil company Statoil are seeking a partner for their revolutionary $1.5bn (£800m) project to take millions of tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) from a new power station and pump it under the sea.
The two companies, which announced plans for the carbon sequestration project in March, want a third company to build and operate the power station.
They are expected to approach Norwegian energy giant Norsk Hydro, Danish firm Elsam and US chemicals group DuPont, among others, about joining the venture. Informal discussions with some companies have already taken place.
Under the proposals, around two million tons of CO2 would be pumped every year from a new 860-megawatt power station, which would provide power to almost one million people.
The CO2 would be pushed out to sea and into two old oil and gas fields in the Norwegian section of the North Sea operated by Shell and Statoil.
“Sequestrating” the CO2 produced from power stations underground, rather than allowing it to be released into the atmosphere, cuts down on global warming.
Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE) and BP have plans for their own generation and sequestration project in Scotland which would be the world’s first.
Scientists from Shell and Stat- oil are working out the feasibility of the project and a decision whether to go ahead will be made within the next two years.
But the chief executive and president of Statoil, Helge Lund, said that the project is not possible without financial support from the Norwegian government. He added: “The economics are challenging. We have been very clear that we are not able to go ahead unless there is some sort of government involvement.”
Pumping CO2 into oil and gas fields which are almost empty also helps companies extract the remaining reserves.
SSE, which reports its annual results later this week, is also pushing for government assistance for its sequestration project with Shell.
Chief executive Ian Marchant said: “Carbon sequestration is at the stage where it needs demonstration projects.”
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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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