Fri Aug 25, 2006 11:19am ET
NEW YORK, Aug 25 (Reuters) – Oil major BP Plc has hired a refinery manager from Royal Dutch Shell Plc to run its troubled Texas City plant, breaking an oil industry taboo against poaching staff from competitors.
BP said on Friday Keith Casey, who is currently the general manager of the Motiva joint venture refinery in Norco, Louisiana, will join BP in September and take over as manager of the 460,000 barrels per day Texas City, Texas plant in the first quarter of 2007.
Motiva is a joint venture between Shell and Saudi Aramco.
The Texas City refinery was the site of one of the worst industrial accidents in recent U.S. history after an explosion killed 15 people and injured scores more.
BP has set aside hundreds of millions of dollars to pay compensation to the victims of the blast and is planning a further $1 billion outlay to simplify the plant and improve safety.
BP’s image in the United States has been seriously damaged by a string of incidents ranging from the Texas City blast to a major oil spill in Alaska and the subsequent partial shutdown of the Prudhoe Bay oil field earlier this month.
BP America president Bob Malone has been charged with improving BP’s safety record in the United States. Malone has been assembling a team of executives to help improve performance at BP’s U.S. units.
Most recently, Malone tapped Richard Cape, the head of BP’s Atlantic LNG joint venture in Trinidad and Tobago to become vice president of compliance and ethics for BP America.
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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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