DOW JONES NEWSWIRES
August 7, 2007 8:18 a.m.
(Updates an item at 0926 GMT with comments from Shell spokeswoman.)
LONDON (Dow Jones)–Royal Dutch Shell PLC (RDSB.LN) has evacuated workers from its North Sea Brent Bravo platform after the facility suffered a power outage Friday.
Workers were taken off the platform Sunday after a power generator left an accommodation module without lighting, ventilation and water.
But oil and gas production at the facility is believed to be unaffected, with the platform currently undergoing annual maintenance.
“One of the power generators providing all the support systems to the accommodation module went,” said Jake Molloy, general secretary of the offshore oil workers’ union OILC.
He said that all 62 workers were flown from Brent Bravo to the North Cormorant and Tern platforms Sunday, but couldn’t confirm whether they had now returned to Brent Bravo.
However, a Shell spokeswoman later confirmed that 61 workers had been taken off the platform, but 91 remain on board. The loss of power Friday had only affected one accommodation module, she said, and despite a repair to the generator, a subsequent, separate generator problem Saturday prompted Shell to remove the affected crew members Sunday morning, she said.
Evacuated workers will remain on the neighboring platforms until power generation is fully restored.
Work at the platform – involving the installation of a new compressor – would continue, the spokeswoman said, and no extension to the platform’s shutdown period was expected.
Shell was criticized for failings at Brent Bravo following the death of two workers on the platform in September 2003. The company was later fined GBP900,000 after admitting health and safety breaches.
-By Nick Heath, Dow Jones Newswires; (4420) 7842 9405; [email protected]
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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.
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