Wed Jun 14, 2006 9:32pm ET
HOUSTON, June 14 (Reuters) – Shell Oil Co. may cut output at a 340,000 barrel per day (bpd) joint-venture Houston-area refinery in Deer Park, Texas, due to a leak in a hydrogen plant, a refinery spokesman said on Wednesday night.
The decision to cut output will likely be made on Thursday, refinery spokesman David McKinney told Reuters.
The leak in a heat exchanger gasket at the refinery’s Hydrogen Plant-1 was discovered on Tuesday morning, according to a notice filed with the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, the state pollution control agency.
Hydrogen is used by refineries to reduce sulfur content in motor fuels in compliance with tightening U.S. regulations. The Deer Park refinery processes high-sulfur Latin American crude oil.
Shell and PMI Norteamerica S.A. de C.V., a subsidiary of Mexican state oil company Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) operate the refinery through Deer Park Refining LP, a 50-50 joint venture.
The Deer Park refinery, located on a 1,500-acre complex shared with a chemical plant along the Houston Ship Channel, is the sixth largest U.S. refinery.
Shell Oil Co. is a subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell Plc. (RDSa.L: Quote, Profile, Research).
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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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