By Jack Kaskey
May 16 (Bloomberg) — Royal Dutch Shell Plc, Europe’s biggest oil company, shut two ethylene plants at a Texas production complex this month after it lost steam power and released tons of chemicals into the air around Houston.
The Deer Park, Texas, complex lost steam from an external supplier on May 2 and flared chemicals from the Olefins 2 and Olefins 3 units for most of the next day, the London-based Shell said today in a filing on the Web site of the Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission. Shell said it didn’t disclose the incident earlier because the state reporting system was unavailable.
Both units are currently operating at normal rates, Shell spokeswoman Dave McKinney said in an e-mail. He didn’t say when they resumed production. The two plants together can annually produce 1.4 million metric tons of ethylene, a key raw material in plastics, Shell said on its Web site. The plants account for more than 1 percent of global ethylene output.
The shutdowns resulted in the airborne release of dozens of contaminants, including 2,420 pounds of ethylene, 1,782 pounds of propylene, 1,622 pounds of sulfur dioxide and 4,700 pounds of volatile organic compounds, Shell reported.
Shell is the world’s fourth largest ethylene producer, behind Dow Chemical Co., Exxon Mobil Corp. and Saudi Basic Industries Corp., according to Banc of America Securities.
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Last Updated: May 16, 2007 18:45 EDT
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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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