By OGJ editors
HOUSTON, Sept. 6 — A joint venture of Royal Dutch Shell PLC, Total SA, and Saudi Aramco has begun exploratory drilling for nonassociated gas and condensate in the southern part of Saudi Arabia’s Empty Quarter.
The venture, South Rub al-Khali Co. Ltd. (SRAK), has spudded Isharat 1, the first of seven wells planned over the next 28 months. It has been shooting seismic surveys toward a commitment of acquiring at least 16,000 km of 2D data during a 5-year exploratory period.
SRAK moved components of the rig 2,000 km from Dubai to the location of Isharat 1, drilling of which is expected to take 4 months.
SRAK holds two blocks covering 50,000 sq km near Shaybah oil field and 160,000 sq km next to the border with Yemen under a November 2003 concession. Shell holds a 40% interest in the venture, and Total and Aramco hold 20% each.
The Saudi government retains control over development in the event of an oil discovery.
In 2004 it signed three similar agreements with international ventures involving Aramco for gas-only exploration and production in the Empty Quarter’s northern area.
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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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A head-cut image of Alfred Donovan (now deceased) appears courtesy of The Wall Street Journal.
