Thu Mar 22, 2007 9:29AM GMT
OSLO (Reuters) – BP (BP.L: Quote, Profile, Research) has filed a plan for further development of the Valhall oilfield off Norway, including planned investments of 14 billion Norwegian crowns (1.15 billion pounds), Norwegian energy officials said on Friday.
The Valhall field in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea has been in operation since 1982 and produces around 70,000 barrels of oil per day. Now BP plans to build a new platform to replace three old platforms, the ministry of petroleum and energy said.
The current platforms were designed for a lifetime of 25 years, while installing the new platform will extend the life of the field to 2049, the ministry said.
It said the new platform was needed also because the seabed in the area is sinking.
“Investments in the project are estimated at around 14 billion crowns,” the ministry said in a statement. “The planned production start-up for the new platform is in 2010.”
The new platform will receive its power supply by cable from land, which will mean that carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from production at the field will be practically eliminated, it said.
BP is operator of Valhall with a 28 percent stake. Its partners in the field, which lies 290 km offshore in the southern part of the North Sea, are Anglo-Dutch Shell (RDSa.L: Quote, Profile, Research), France’s Total (TOTF.PA: Quote, Profile, Research) and U.S. producer Hess (HES.N: Quote, Profile, Research).
BP operates four fields on the Norwegian continental shelf and is a partner in Shell’s Draugen field.
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.
