By Russell Hotten
Last Updated: 2:23am BST 10/05/2007
Two reports into the causes of a huge oil spillage at BP operations in Alaska blame the company’s cost-cutting and management culture for the accident.
The reports, commissioned by BP, echo criticism of the company after an explosion at its Texas City refinery in 2005 which led the company to set aside £1bn in compensation.
A US Congressional Committee is reviewing the reports as part of an investigation into the March 2006 spillage at Prudhoe Bay, in which at least 200,000 gallons of oil leaked onto the tundra. According to the Reuters news agency, a source in Congress said the reports talk of “top-down cost-cutting…without any risk analysis”.
One report, by specialist engineer CC Technologies, said BP’s maintenance practices, especially a failure regularly to flush out sediment inside a pipeline, allowed corrosion to take hold.
The second report, by consultancy Booz Allen Hamilton, criticises BP management standards and complacency toward possible corrosion. According to the Reuters source, the report “is pretty comprehensive. It recommends a lot of changes to the way BP manages its business here and the way it thinks about risks”.
BP did not deny the existence of the reports, but no one was available to comment further.
BP has begun overhauling its US management structure to improve operational controls. New chief executive of the US business Bob Malone has been given more control of the operations and has appointed managers who are to ensure operating units comply with BP’s corporate policies.
The company has recruited a Royal Dutch Shell refinery manager to run Texas City and has also replaced several top officials at BP Alaska.
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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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