Wednesday 14 November 2007
RIYADH: Royal Dutch Shell plans to push on with drilling for gas in Saudi Arabia’s vast empty quarter, despite finding nothing with its first three wells, a senior company executive said yesterday.
“We will complete our plan to drill seven wells,” Shell Saudi Arabia Country chairman Robert Weener said at an oil exhibition in Riyadh.
“This is an area the size of the UK. You can’t just drill three wells and say there’s no gas.”
Shell is part of a joint venture with Total and Saudi Aramco called South Rub Al Khali (SRAK). SRAK had an exit option after three consecutive dry wells.
None of the four consortia of European, Russian and Chinese firms exploring for gas in Saudi Arabia’s vast Empty Quarter has found commercial quantities of gas, prompting speculation in the industry that companies may cut short their drilling programmes.
The companies are hunting for gasfields that also hold high value condensates to compensate for the cheap domestic prices they would garner for dry gas. The companies were awarded gas exploration blocs in the Empty Quarter in 2003 and 2004.
Meanwhile, Saudi Aramco will cut gas oil exports to 880,000 tonnes next year from 2.2 million tonnes this year, and will not renew any of its annual term deals, as domestic demand grows swiftly, industry sources said yesterday.
Saudi Arabia is expected to keep term jet fuel exports steady at 1m tonnes. Saudi Aramco did not issue a tender to sell term middle distillates this year but short-listed players for price discussions for the upcoming weekend.
“Gas oil exports will be reduced because domestic demand is very strong,” said one source involved in supply discussions, adding that all shipments will be sold on a spot basis. The grades will be a mix of 0.05 per cent and 0.5pc sulphur.
“Domestic diesel demand has already caught up with production,” another source said. Oil demand is booming in the kingdom, thanks to economic growth and low domestic prices, forcing it at times to import extra supplies.
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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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A head-cut image of Alfred Donovan (now deceased) appears courtesy of The Wall Street Journal.
