Clues suggest that merger talks between two oil giants, BP and Royal Dutch Shell, to create the world’s biggest corporate titan, eclipsing ExxonMobil are underway.
Yesterday two British newspapers, The Times and the Daily Mail, reported news of merger discussions between BP and Royal Dutch Shell to create a corporate titan – the world’s largest company.
Under the headline “It’s on. A £250bn-plus summertime oil merger to create the world’s largest company”, the Daily Mail said “Red hot rumours suggest that top corporate financiers, financial advisers and executives of BP and Royal Dutch Shell are currently involved in round the clock discussions centred on finalising terms for a ‘friendly’ merger which many industry analysts believe would make a great deal of sense”.
Excited speculation about a merger between BP and Shell has broken out several times right from the inception of the unified company Royal Dutch Shell Plc in 2005. We now know that there was substance to the speculation. It has been confirmed that Lord Browne was keen to launch a takeover bid for Shell and sought the backing of his board. It was also reported that discussions took place at a high level between the two oil giants. Shell’s previous reaction to press reports on the matter has been to issue a statement saying that they do not comment on speculation. This time there has been no such statement.
Another clue to the possibility that discussions are really underway is that action was taken by Shell lawyers on 22 June to remove a combined BP/Shell logo from what the Financial Times has recently described as an anti-Shell website www.royaldutchshellplc.com which also operates under the domain name of www.bpshellplc.com – a likely corporate name for the merged company.
Shell General Counsel Keith Ruddock has confirmed that Shell did send communications to relevant website hosting companies threatening action unless the logo was immediately removed. The merged BP/Shell logo in question, created by the website/domain name owner Alfred Donovan, a former consultant to Shell, had previously been displayed on his website regularly for long periods without any objection being raised. Suddenly, it has become a topical and evidently highly important issue.
Former Shell Executive Paddy Briggs summed up the situation in response to the latest speculation: “As a once employee of Shell-Mex and BP I would love to see Shell and BP merge – so long as there is then a rapid upstream/downstream demerger. Could it really happen? We shall see!”
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By John Donovan
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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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A head-cut image of Alfred Donovan (now deceased) appears courtesy of The Wall Street Journal.
