EXTRACT: It shut off a further 12 wells this week after unnamed employees told the Financial Times newspaper that the company was operating leaking wells near its Prudhoe Bay facility.
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By Upstream staff
Alaskan state officials have started inspections of 57 BP-operated wells on Alaska’s North Slope that were shut down over concerns that they were leaking oil-based insulation fluids, it was reported.
An inspector from the Alaska Oil & Gas Conservation Commission began examining the integrity of wells thought to be affected by the leaks, Commissioner Cathy Foerster, told the Associated Press in Anchorage. She said the investigation would include other wells if necessary and was independent of BP’s internal investigation.
Foester said the agency had no information that any of the wells had leaked oil onto the Arctic Tundra or that BP had not operated the well properly, the report said. She said the probe would be managed by an independent investigator hired several months ago, following complaints that state regulators were too lenient on oil companies.
BP said this week it had closed down 37 of the 57 wells earlier over concerns that oil-based insulation products were leaking into containment cellars around wells and had shut down another eight to optimise production.
It shut off a further 12 wells this week after unnamed employees told the Financial Times newspaper that the company was operating leaking wells near its Prudhoe Bay facility.
BP officials welcome the state investigation. “We are anxious to get to the bottom of this and to find any problems if there are some,” BP spokesman Steve Rinehart 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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