EXTRACT: Executives at Anglo-Dutch supermajor Shell have also said the oil major has pulled back its activities in Iran – which included talks on the multi-billion Pars liquefied natural gas project – after US politicians criticised the proposed deal.
By Upstream staff
Italian oil major Eni will not abandon its contracts in Iran, chief executive Paolo Scaroni said today, despite growing pressure by Western governments on companies to avoid doing business with the Islamic Republic.
“We are there with very old contracts and we continue to fulfill our obligations,” Reuters reported Paolo Scaroni told reporters at an energy conference in Rome. “We cannot do it in any other way.”
Washington last month tightened its long-standing sanctions on Iran in a fresh attempt to pressure the Islamic Republic to cease its uranium-enrichment programme, which the West fears could be used to develop nuclear weapons.
Iran says its nuclear programme is for peaceful purposes.
US companies are prohibited by law from working in Iran and sanctions also allow Washington to punish foreign companies that invest more than $20 million in the Opec member’s energy sector, although this is rarely put into practice.
French oil group Total last month said talks with Iran over new investments in natural gas fields were no longer very active after the French government urged French companies not to invest there.
Executives at Anglo-Dutch supermajor Shell have also said the oil major has pulled back its activities in Iran – which included talks on the multi-billion Pars liquefied natural gas project – after US politicians criticised the proposed deal.
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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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