Wed Nov 14, 2007 2:17pm EST
NEW YORK, Nov 14 (Reuters) – Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSa.L: Quote, Profile, Research) said Wednesday its Mars platform in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico was still raising output back to normal levels of 190,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day after completing scheduled work.
The nearby Ursa field, which supplies the Mars crude oil stream, remained shut after planned maintenance was extended by several days, Shell said.
Traders pushed the price of Mars blend crude oil up $3 per barrel against benchmark WTI in early trading on Wednesday on expectations of lower supplies of the medium sour grade. [CRU/C]
Mars was shut Nov. 3 for planned work but the restart of the platform was delayed after a small gas leak was detected. The leak has been repaired and Mars is expected to return to normal production rates “over the next couple of days,” Shell said in a statement.
Shell operates both Mars and Ursa, as well as the Mars crude oil pipeline system, which transports approximately 300,000 bpd of deepwater Gulf of Mexico sour crudes to the Louisiana Offshore Oil Port.
Ursa was designed to produce up to 150,000 barrels per day of crude oil and 400 million cubic feet per day of natural gas and began operations in March 1999.
BP Plc (BP.L: Quote, Profile, Research) is the minority partner in the Mars field. BP, ConocoPhillips (COP.N: Quote, Profile, Research) and ExxonMobil (XOM.N: Quote, Profile, Research) have minority shareholdings in Ursa.
(Reporting by Robert Campbell; Editing by Marguerita Choy)
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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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