Posted to the Web: Monday, June 19, 2006
The Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) has drilled two additional gas wells in a bid to boost local supply of gas. The drilling project commenced in June last year and was completed early this year, according to the latest edition of the Shell Bulletin, made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos on Thursday. Gas drilled from the wells, called “Utorogu-32” and“Utorogu-33” are supplied through the Nigerian Gas Company (NGC) for various local uses, including generation of electricity.
Another well, Soku-38 has also been completed and it now supplies gas to the Nigerian Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG) company in Bonny, Rivers State for export. The senior opportunity development leader of Shell, Mr Segun Owolabi, described the drilling of the wells as a product of effective collaboration between the Opportunity Development Centre (ODC) in Port Harcourt and the Wells Delivery Land Area, based in Warri.
He said the wells were identified through studies conducted by the ODC team, which subsequently went to work on the project.
“The key to the success story lies in the quality technical planning and execution of effective team cooperation,’’ Owolabi stated, noting that gas from the wells had increased the quantity delivered to power stations in the country. According to him, building the wells posed serious technical challenges because of their location among a cluster of nine other wells.
The team leader of West Well Operations of Shell, Mr Eno Omini, said that careful planning was adopted because of the sensitive nature of the area where the wells were located.
He said that constructing “Utorogu-33” was particularly challenging, following a discovery that the top part of the hole was collapsing frequently.
“We solved the problem through an innovative way of using a pipe to secure the well,” Omini said, explaining that both wells were particularly deep and that getting readings from them were difficult.
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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A head-cut image of Alfred Donovan (now deceased) appears courtesy of The Wall Street Journal.
