CALGARY (CP) — Shell Canada Ltd. disclosed Monday that maintenance at the Athabasca oilsands project is taking longer than expected.
The scheduled eight-week turnaround is being extended because additional work is required, Shell said, and start-up now is expected to begin in late June with a return to full production by mid-July.
“Following initial cleaning and inspection of the equipment, a decision was taken to undertake additional maintenance and repair work,” Shell stated.
“Shell is working closely with customers to manage the reduced synthetic crude production due to the shutdown extension.”
The Athabasca project is owned 60 per cent by Shell Canada, 20 per cent by Chevron Canada Ltd. and 20 per cent by Western Oil Sands LP.
The turnaround — involving as many as 4,000 maintenance workers and expected to cost $100 million to $125 million — is described as the largest in the history of the Canadian subsidiary of the Royal Dutch/Shell Group.
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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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