Wed Sep 12, 2007 5:19 PM BST
(In U.S. dollars)
CALGARY, Alberta, Sept 12 (Reuters) – Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSa.L: Quote, Profile , Research) will make a final decision on whether to go ahead with a $5 billion plan to double capacity at its oil refinery at Port Arthur, Texas, by yearend, chief executive Jeroen van der Veer said on Wednesday.
Shell and Saudi Refining Co., joint-venture partners in the Motiva Enterprises refinery, are considering a plan to expand capacity to 600,000 barrels a day from 285,000.
“If they build the addition it would be the largest refinery in the U.S.,” van der Veer told reporters in Calgary. “That decision will be before the end…of this year.”
The project is one of a number of refinery expansion projects planned globally to take advantage of strong oil-industry profits. However, van der Veer said such plans need to account for potential downturns.
“If you build a refinery or expand a refinery that will stand there for 30 years, 40 years, or more, you will have to go through bad times,” 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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