By Upstream staff
Dozens of oil workers were airlifted from Anglo-Dutch supermajor Shell’s Brent Bravo platform earlier this week after the rig lost power, UK media reported.
The 61 workers reportedly spent two days aboard the platform without power or hot water before Shell made the decision to evacuate the rig, The Scotsman reported.
The workers were taken by helicopters to nearby rigs on Sunday. Shell said the move was a precaution and the platform’s crew were never in danger.
A Shell spokeswoman said: “There was a trip in the power late on Friday. A spare fuel pump was flown out to the platform, but at 8pm on Saturday there was another problem and they lost power again.”
The Brent Bravo platform, which lies 116 miles (186 kilometres) north-east of Lerwick, in the Shetland Islands, is shut in for three months of routine maintenance.
Shell was fined £900,000 ($1.8 million) two years ago after an investigation into the deaths of two workers aboard the Brent Bravo in 2003 uncovered a range of safety problems.
07 August 2007 15:57 GMT | last updated: 07 August 2007 15:57 GMT
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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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