A sheriff has criticised oil company Shell over the deaths of two oil workers on board a North Sea platform.
Keith Moncrieff, 45, of Invergowrie near Dundee, and Sean McCue, 22, of Kennoway in Fife, died in the accident on Brent Bravo in September 2003.
In his findings after a 38-day inquiry, Sheriff Colin Harris said their deaths might reasonably have been prevented.
Shell said safety was a top priority but was unwilling to comment further until it had seen the report in full.
Mr Moncrieff and Mr McCue had been making an inspection of a temporary repair patch in a leg of the platform when they were overcome by gas.
Shell was later fined £900,000 after admitting health and safety breaches, including failing to carry out a risk assessment on the platform.
Limits of working
A fatal accident inquiry was ordered by Lord Advocate Colin Boyd and got under way last October.
BBC Scotland has seen the findings of Sheriff Harris, whose report is due to be officially published on Tuesday.
In his determination he highlights a failure to clearly set out limits of working.
He also criticises Shell for failing to assess the consequences of starting up the platform in August 2003 in the knowledge that an emergency shutdown valve had failed.
And he says the accident could have been avoided if the temporary repair had been appropriate and properly managed
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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