By Jim Kennett
Sept. 22 (Bloomberg) — BP Plc, Europe’s second-largest oil company, said it was returning to normal operations in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico after evacuating personnel who were under threat of a potentially dangerous storm.
Royal Dutch Shell Plc, the largest producer in the Gulf, also began returning workers to some offshore platforms late yesterday, the company said on its Web site. BP planned no further updates on the status of its operations, the company said on a media hotline today.
Oil and gas companies including BP, Shell, and Exxon Mobil Corp., the world’s largest oil company, shuttered wells and evacuated personnel as storm clouds passed over Florida earlier this week and formed a tropical depression in the eastern Gulf.
That storm blew ashore ahead of forecasts, before it had time to strengthen, and its remnants were over southern Mississippi this morning, the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said in an 11:30 a.m. update.
A survey of producers by the U.S. Minerals Management Service yesterday showed 63 percent of Gulf crude-oil output and 31 percent of gas production had been idled. Workers have been evacuated from 77 of 834 manned platforms, the survey showed. The service is scheduled to post an operations update today at 2 p.m. New York time.
To contact the reporter on this story: Jim Kennett in Houston at [email protected] .
Last Updated: September 22, 2007 12:12 EDT
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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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