ABERDEEN, Sept 6 (Reuters) – Royal Dutch Shell (RDSa.L: Quote, Profile , Research) (RDSa.AS: Quote, Profile , Research) will meet with staff later on Thursday to discuss safety concerns raised by employees on offshore platforms in the UK North Sea, a company spokesman said.
Staff have written to Shell’s vice president for production in Europe John Hollowell, raising concerns over staffing levels and safety on offshore installations, some of which were put up for sale in June this year.
Shell, along with some other big oil firms, is seeking to divest some assets in the UK North Sea, which is a mature oil and gas province where costs are high.
“We disagree with their assessment of critical skills,” the spokesman said. “We have all the critical skills to maintain safe operations.”
With regard to the UK offshore industry, safety experts say it has become more difficult to monitor safety standards because of a large number of contractors now employed by different companies working on oil platforms.
“The multiplicity of contractors offshore…means the safety message gets diluted,” said Danny Carrigan, a health and safety commissioner, speaking at OffshoreEurope, an industry conference.
He also said the industry’s Health and Safety Executive was concerned that workers offshore are reluctant to be seen raising safety issues.
“Some people offshore sometimes feel constrained to put their hand up,” he said.
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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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