8 September 2006
SHELL is making final preparations to carry out flow tests on a large offshore accumulation of heavy oil in Brazil’s Santos basin after recently concluding an appraisal well there, writes Gareth Chetwynd.
“The rig is undergoing final adjustments at the Maua-Jurong shipyard and we are almost ready to get it to the location and start the tests,” said a spokesperson.
Shell is facing a December deadline to declare commerciality on the accumulation in Block BS-4.
The appraisal well was drillled with the Transocean drillship Deepwater Navigator, and the same unit will be used for the flow test.
Two of the four prospects drilled by Shell on BS-4 were rated as discoveries but the crude is very sour, graded at between 14 and 15 degrees-API and located at water depths of about 1500 metres.
Initial estimates point to reserves in place of about 1.6 billion barrels of oil equivalent, but reservoir conditions have raised searching questions about commerciality.
Shell’s analysis of BS-4 has included pre-FEED studies with Houston’s Floatec look¬ing at the potential for application of spar, tension-leg platform or semi-submersible production systems.
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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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