Fri Apr 6, 2007 7:09 PM BST
AMSTERDAM, April 6 (Reuters) – Anglo-Dutch oil giant Royal Dutch Shell Plc may resume oil production in the Niger Delta in several months time, Shell said on Friday.
“(Shell’s chief executive) Jeroen van der Veer has said that we may resume output in the Niger Delta in months,” a Shell spokesman said, confirming statements Van der Veer made on Thursday at a Paris oil conference as reported by a Dutch newspaper.
About 477,000 barrels per day could be taken back into production by Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC), in which Shell holds 30 percent, the spokesman said. Production was shut down after attacks in February last year.
A unit of France’s Total holds 10 percent in SPDC, Italy’s ENI unit Agip holds 5 percent, while the Nigerian National Petroleum Corp. owns the remainder, according to data on Shell’s Web site.
Attacks on oil facilities and kidnappings of foreign workers have been a problem for years in Nigeria, the world’s eighth-biggest oil exporter, but the Shell spokesman said the company might re-enter the Niger Delta.
“We are having talks with local communities that give hope that we can return in the near future and start inspections and possible repairs,” he said.
The spokesman said he could not give an exact time frame for the resumption of the Niger Delta production due to uncertainties about Shell’s return to the region and repairs.
Total said on Thursday it expected its oil production in Nigeria to increase this year after violence dented output.
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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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