By Upstream staff
Premier Oil has not received a takeover approach from Shell, Premier’ boss Simon Lockett said today, despite a report the supermajor was eyeing the UK oil explorer.
“I have no knowledge of any talks ongoing with Shell. We have not received any approach from Shell,” Simon Lockett told Reuters. A spokesman for Shell said the company did not comment on market speculation.
Earlier, a Dow Jones Newswires report said that Shell was seeking bank advice regarding a possible bid for Premier, citing people familiar with the matter.
Analysts have tipped Premier, like many independent UK oil companies, as a potential bid target for players, such as Shell, which are finding it hard to add new reserves by exploration alone.
However, some industry executives do not believe Premier management would be keen on a sale. Lockett took over as chief executive just 17 months ago and brought a new management team with him.
The company has since shifted its exploration strategy to focus on bigger impact wells and it hopes this will start to significantly add to reserves over the coming two years.
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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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