26 September 2006
By Upstream staff
Anglo-Dutch supermajor Shell has signed a deal with Turkey’s Calik Energy and Italy’s Eni on its possible participation in a key Turkish oil pipeline project, it said today.
The pipeline will carry oil between the Black Sea town of Samsun and the Turkish Mediterranean port of Ceyhan, bypassing the Bosphorus.
“This bypass project will reduce the heavy tanker traffic in the straits and will have the role of a sustainable export corridor for the delivery of crude from Russia and the Caspian region which is expected to keep increasing,” the statement said.
Turkey chose Calik to build the 550 kilometre pipeline in April and gave the company and its partner Eni six months to complete its engineering and design studies.
The pipeline will pump 75 million tonnes of oil per year. Delays at the Turkish straits have added to shipping costs for exports of Urals blend crude from Black Sea ports. When weather is bad, ships can be delayed at the passage for weeks.
Turkey envisages Ceyhan as a regional energy hub and Calik announced in August that it had applied with Indian Oil Corporation for a licence to build a $4.9 billion refinery there.
Ceyhan is the terminal of the Baku-Tblisi-Ceyhan (BTC) oil pipeline, which has the capacity to fill 1 million barrels per day, and is also the terminal for a pipeline from Iraq’s Kirkuk oilfields.
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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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