Business comment
By Damian Reece, City Editor
Hopefully Tony Hayward is brushing up his Russian as he prepares to move into the chief executive’s eyrie at BP’s St James’s Square headquarters.
Russia, President Putin, the Kremlin and Gazprom are looming large on the long list of crucial and sensitive issues facing BP’s leader-elect.
Huge Siberian gas reserves represent an important part of his inheritance. His challenge is ensuring they produce a strong revenue stream. The price for such an achievement is, as yet, unknown.
Confrontation between the Kremlin and Shell over control of a huge offshore gas field changed the rules between oil companies with expertise and development funds and an administration wanting to rewrite the script so Gazprom ends up with its hands firmly on the gas taps.
BP has been attempting to bend to the Kremlin wind. Whether it has bent far enough remains to be seen. The offer by BP and its Russian partners to cede control of the huge Kovykta development to Gazprom is sensible but risky. Give the Russian bear one bone and he will start looking for another. Hayward should get his snow boots on and see if he can soothe the bear.
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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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