By Upstream staff
US supermajor Chevron said it remained committed to the Gorgon liquefied natural gas project off Australia despite concerns about rising costs at the $20 billion project, local media sources said.
Gorgon general manager Colin Beckett told Australia’s The Age newspaper: “We are ramping up our manpower and investment spend as we speak. We wouldn’t do that if it was not seen to be a robust use of our funds.”
However, Beckett admitted that the project was also feeling the heat from cost increases including higher labour and supplies costs.
Exploitation of the Gorgon reserves is complicated by the high carbon dioxide content of gas. Beckett said Chevron had spent more than $60 million on a well to study reinjecting recovered carbon dioxide into an underground salt chamber.
He said the project was spending about $20 million a month on construction costs.
Australia’s federal government last month approved the building of two LNG compression trains for the project on Barrow Island, off Western Australia. However, Chevron’s partners in the project, fellow supermajors Shell and ExxonMobil have not yet given the nod for work to begin.
The trains will produce about 10 million tonnes of LNG a year from the Gorgon and Jansz fields. Beckett told The Age that there was space for a further three trains on Barrow Island.
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19 November 2007 23:25 GMT | last updated: 19 November 2007 23:25 GMT
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.
