By THERESA BLACKWELL, Times Staff Writer
CLEARWATER – Shell Oil Co. probably will apply within a month for a federal permit to drill an exploratory well 53 miles west of Clearwater, an operation that will take up to three months and go down 18,000 feet into the floor of the Gulf of Mexico.
Robert L. Wilson, manager of safety and environmental conservation for Shell’s offshore division, outlined his company’s proposed drilling program to members of the Clearwater Rotary Club here Wednesday.
Shell will do the drilling in a joint venture with Sun Oil Co., sharing the estimated cost of $3 million.
The federal permit is the last procedural step the oil companies must take before they can put up a rig. The companies bought the Gulf leases from the federal government in December.
Wilson said the well is to be drilled in about 150 feet of water from a three-legged jack-up rig now in use offshore from Galveston, Texas.
The test well near here probably wouldn’t be started until October, and it would be mid 1975 before it could be determined if the well would be productive, he said.
If productive wells are drilled in the Gulf near here, the crude oil or gas produced could be barged ashore but would most likely be piped to land bases, Wilson said.
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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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