Published: Mar 14, 2007
A WOMAN who sued two North Sea oil giants for pounds 800,000 over her husband-to-be’s death has settled out of court.
Jacqueline Ogilivie took on Shell and services firm Wood Group after a gas leak on an oilrig killed her partner, Keith Moncrieff.
Up to 2.5 tons of gas suffocated the Wood Group technician, 45, and colleague Sean McCue, 22, while they inspected a leaking pipe on Shell’s Brent Bravo platform.
It later emerged a temporary patch had been placed on the leak for nearly a year before the tragedy in September 2003.
Jacqueline, 50, of Dundee, had accused Shell of negligence that led to financial losses for her and her two daughters.
Yesterday, solicitor George Clark, who represented her, said: “The case has settled for a substantial and undisclosed sum.
“Mrs Ogilvie is delighted the matter is at an end after almost four years of constant pain and reminder of the tragic incident.
“She can now move on with the rest of her life but at the same time always cherish the memory of Keith.”
Shell were fined pounds 900,000 in 2005 for three health and safety breaches relating to the deaths of Keith, of Invergowrie, Dundee, and Sean, of Kennoway, Fife.
Shell later said they felt “100 per cent responsible”.
Aberdeen-based Wood Group confirmed the settlement. Shell declined to comment.
Jake Molloy, of the OILC union, said: “It has been a traumatic four years for Mrs Ogilvie. She has suffered greatly, losing the man she was to marry in tragic circumstances.”
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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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