By Tom Bergin and Jonathan Cable
LONDON (Reuters) – Oil major BP plans to cut its onshore North Sea workforce by almost 20 percent, citing unsustainable business conditions, as big industry players continue to reduce their presence in the mature oil-producing province.
BP said in a statement on Wednesday it would cut 350 jobs over the next six months from a total onshore staff and contractor workforce of 2,100.
“Declining production and rapidly rising costs have created business conditions which are not sustainable in the long term,” BP said.
Earlier this month, BP said it planned a restructuring to cut costs and streamline management, and BP’s chief executive for Exploration and Production, Andy Inglis, said the cuts were part of BP’s agenda of simplifying how the company is run.
BP and other major oil companies including Royal Dutch Shell have been selling North Sea fields in recent years to focus their efforts on regions, like Angola and the deep-water Gulf of Mexico, which offer greater potential for big finds.
The world’s third-largest western oil company, BP said plans for moving staff to its new North Sea headquarters in Aberdeen were unchanged and that offshore staff would be unaffected.
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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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