By JIM KRANE
Associated Press
EXTRACT: None is likely to start prospecting until company chiefs feel reasonably assured that their workers won’t be sent home in coffins and that their investments have legal protection that won’t be taken away by a new government. “We are interested and they are interested. But we need those conditions in place to take it to the next level,” Shell Oil Co. President John Hofmeister said.
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DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES – In Iraq’s peaceful north, a trio of foreign oil companies have begun classic wildcat exploration, hoping a gusher of black gold will bring them untold wealth.
But the companies are little-known outside the industry — something that’s unlikely to change until security improves. And the deals they have cut with the Kurdish regional administration bypassing the central government leaves them in a murky legal situation.
More than three years after the U.S.-led invasion, no major oil company has stepped forward to spend the huge sums necessary to tap Iraq’s giant oil reserves and get crude flowing and revenues pouring into Iraq’s government to help pay for food, jobs and medical care.
None is likely to start prospecting until company chiefs feel reasonably assured that their workers won’t be sent home in coffins and that their investments have legal protection that won’t be taken away by a new government.
“We are interested and they are interested. But we need those conditions in place to take it to the next level,” Shell Oil Co. President John Hofmeister said.
Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is eager to get them in. Even with the resources of Big Oil, it would take at least five years to dramatically boost production and refining.
But big companies like Shell and ConocoPhillips won’t budge until Iraq has a law governing oil-sector investment and figures out just who owns the country’s underground oil.
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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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