Thu Apr 19, 2007 3:04 PM BST
CALGARY, Alberta, April 19 (Reuters) – Shell Canada Ltd.’s
Royal Dutch Shell, one of the biggest oil majors, secured the minority shareholding of Shell Canada last month with a C$8.7 billion ($7.7 billion) bid to gain full control. Shell Canada is known for its vast Alberta oil sands reserves and natural gas business.
Clive Mather, 59, has been CEO of Shell Canada since 2004. He will be replaced on an interim basis by Adrian Loader, Royal Dutch Shell’s director of strategy and business development, the company said.
Loader will form a team comprising executives from Royal Dutch and Shell Canada to oversee the integration, a process expected to be complete by the end of 2007.
Analysts have speculated that many of Shell Canada’s administrative functions and some of its operations will be run from Houston or no longer needed.
Shell Canada spokesman Jeff Mann said the integration team will make those decisions in the coming months.
“Obviously they’re going to be looking to make the integrated organization as strong as and as effective as possible,” Mann said.
The affable Mather, a 38-year Royal Dutch Shell veteran, oversaw Shell Canada’s largest acquisition, the C$2.4 billion takeover of oil sands developer Blackrock Ventures Inc., and design and planning of the first expansion of the Athabasca Oil Sands Project, which could cost up to C$12.8 billion.
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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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