By KNUT EVENSEN in Stavanger
Shell is aiming to make about 15 “big cat” find this year, the same number it targeted in 2005. The supermajor defines a “big cat” as a discovery in which its equity interest is more than 100 million barrels of oil equivalent.
Speaking at the ONS conference in Stavanger, Shell vice president for exploration David Lawrence would not give details about results so far this year, but said: “We will drill roughly 15 big cats. We’re doing fine.”
Last year the supermajor also targeted 15 big cats in Australia, West Africa – particularly Nigeria – the Middle East and Gulf of Mexico. It made seven discoveries.
Drilling in virgin frontier areas carries a high risk. However, Lawrence said Shell is looking for frontier areas where there is a good “running room”.
He said there are more conventional oil discoveries to be made, but added there are no easy plays left.
Lawrence said the industry will have to hunt in deeper waters, in the arctic and also look at more difficult reservoir targets.
He said this will require new technologies and that this will have to be applied in an integrated manner, such as using conventional seismic in combination with electromagnetic surveying.
New drilling technology for high-temperature and high-pressure targets, together with new well completion techniques are other examples.
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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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