Steve Hawkes
Lord Browne’s bullish sign off at BP will be met with puzzled looks in the US. His fierce defence of the oil giant’s record, and of its bright prospects, follows a year marked by the dramatic fallout from oil spills in Alaska and the fatal refinery blast at Texas City.
Browne insists that the group has learned its lessons and come through with its core values “reaffirmed”. He says: “The best is yet to come.” The City will now want proof of this pudding. BP’s share price has tumbled 20 per cent in the past year even though it has recorded its best-ever profits.
BP has a far brighter pipeline of production than Shell, including the much delayed Thunder Horse platform in the Gulf of Mexico. But Tony Hayward, the new chief executive, will have his work cut out to ensure that Browne’s confidence is not misplaced.
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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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