LAGOS -(Dow Jones)- Nigeria’s oil minister Wednesday appeared before a House committee to answer questions concerning an alleged underpayment to the government by a unit of Royal Dutch Shell PLC (RDSA), a private television station reported.
Channels TV said that Minister of State for Petroleum Edmund Daukoru presented the Committee on Petroleum a value-for-money audit report that the committee has said is vital to its investigation.
The committee had invited him to testify about an alleged underpayment of $3.2 billion for crude oil shipped by Shell Petroleum Development Co. of Nigeria, or SPDC.
Channels TV reported that Daukoru disclosed an outstanding amount owed by SPDC that was substantially smaller than the $3.2 billion in the report, but he was quoted as saying that “claims will be filed accordingly to recover the money from SPDC.”
Daukoru said SPDC had no intention to cheat the government.
When the issue arose last week, SPDC said in a statement that it “conducts its business in compliance with relevant regulations and the law” and that “during the period in question, no wrong doing was found.”
SPDC is a joint venture operated by Shell, which owns 30%, with the Nigerian National Petroleum Co. holding 55%, Total SA (TOT) 10% and Eni SpA (E) unit Agip SpA 5%.
-By Vincent Nwanma, Dow Jones Newswires; 23-4-802-358-4996; [email protected]
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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.
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