(Filed: 26/09/2006)
Legal
• BP’s Russian venture OAO TNK-BP was warned by prosecutors it could lose its permit to develop the $18bn Kovykta natural-gas field in Siberia over licence and environmental violations.
Energy
• The UK energy regulator proposes to allow the country’s natural-gas network operators to raise transportation charges by 9.7pc because of higher wholesale gas prices and pension costs for the grid operators.
• Royal Dutch Shell ‘s Sakhalin unit signed letters of intent, worth $100m each, with two service companies to work on an oil and gas project for which the Russian government may cancel a key permit.
• Total, the oil company, is offering space on the UK’s largest natural-gas import pipeline, which is increasing its capacity by 42pc.
• British Energy Group whose power plants can produce a fifth of the UK’s electricity, has about 44pc of its nuclear capacity idled for maintenance, operational data on a National Grid Web site shows.
• Scottish & Southern Energy, the UK’s third-largest energy supplier, said it and Norway’s Statoil applied to double capacity at a natural-gas storage facility in Yorkshire, northern England.
• Nautical Petroleum a UK oil explorer and producer, posted an 18-month loss after acquiring stakes in blocks in the North Sea and southwest France.
• Hardy Oil & Gas, a UK-based exploration company, said profit climbed 49pc in the first half as oil production increased.
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.
