Tue Oct 23, 2007 1:41pm BST
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – Royal Dutch Shell (RDSa.L: Quote, Profile, Research) is planning to invest 1 billion euros (696 million pounds) in its Dutch Pernis refinery, Europe’s biggest, over the next five to seven years, a spokesman for the oil major said on Tuesday.
“There are plans for a 1 billion (euro) investment for the next five to seven years but it’s not all firm yet,” the spokesman said, adding that the planned investments were partly aimed at improving the refinery’s reliability.
He said there was also some discussions under way about a new desulphurisation unit at Pernis, which has a processing capacity of 412,000 barrels a day.
The European Union has brought in tougher environmental rules to cut the levels of sulphur in heating oil and diesel.
Shell has been revamping its refining portfolio worldwide, moving aggressively to sell higher cost plants.
This year alone the company has sold three French refineries and another in Los Angeles.
Last month, Shell and Saudi Arabia’s state oil company announced they would go ahead with a $7 billion expansion of their jointly owned refinery at Port Arthur in Texas that would make the plant one of the biggest in the world.
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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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