24 March 2007
BP is playing a high-risk game in Russia. Bidding for the bankrupt Yukos’s stake in energy giant Rosneft is fraught with complications, but in the current climate maybe Lord Browne and Co felt they had little choice.
BP is a sizeable player in the Russian oil and gas industry through its 50pc stake in TNK-BP. But there is a problem: President Putin wants to return Russia’s prize energy assets to state control. Among other things, Moscow desires control of TNK-BP’s vast and potentially very lucrative Kovykta gas field.
BP could either resist or go with the flow. The first option is futile, as Shell found to its cost over the Sakhalin 2 gas field. The other option? To invest further in Russia and form more ventures with Rosneft and Gazprom.
There is talk BP is involved in the auction as a figleaf to dignify Rosneft’s eventual takeover of the Yukos assets. Given its problems elsewhere, BP needs to take care its reputation does not suffer further.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2007/03/24/ccom24.xml
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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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