PORT ARTHUR — The general manager of a local refinery will soon be moving up the corporate ladder.
Tom Purves, manager of the Motiva Enterprises refinery in Port Arthur, has been named vice president of manufacturing operations for the Americas.
According to a press release from Motiva, Purves will begin the new position on July 1 and will be based in Houston.
Purves has been with Shell/Motiva for 27 years and has worked in a variety of production and engineering roles at a number of sites, including Norco, Deer Park, Wood River and Bakersfield.
He has also held a variety of strategy and planning positions in Shell’s U.S.-based refining and chemicals regional organization.
While in Port Arthur, Purves has been active with the Partnership of Southeast Texas, Texas Energy Museum, Port Arthur Industrial and Stakeholders Group. He is also a 2002 graduate of Leadership Southeast Texas.
Purves, his wife Linda and daughter Allison will continue to reside in Beaumont where they are active members of St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church.
Purves is filling the vacancy left by Rudy Goetzee, current vice president of manufacturing for the Americas, who is retiring after a 33-year career with Shell.
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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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