By Russell Hotten
Last Updated: 12:47am GMT 23/11/2007
Oil explorer Regal Petroleum surprised the City yesterday with the appointment of former Royal Dutch Shell executive David Greer to run the business, throwing into confusion a deal the two companies had signed only 24 hours previously.
Mr Greer, who becomes Aim-listed Regal’s chief executive and chairman, resigned from Shell earlier this year soon after writing a notorious email that was ridiculed as something that could have been penned by David Brent from cult television comedy The Office.
On Wednesday Shell signed a preliminary £198.5m deal to take a 51pc stake in two Ukraine fields controlled by a subsidiary of Regal, founded by the colourful Frank Timis, the company’s largest shareholder with around 20pc. The agreement was seen as helpful to Regal’s continuing rehabilitation, after a share price collapse in 2005 when a drilling programme struck water, not oil.
But yesterday, Regal announced that chief executive Neil Ritson had resigned and Francesco Scolaro was stepping down as chairman, but would stay on the board as a non-executive. No reason was given in Regal’s statement for Mr Ritson’s departure and he could not be contacted last night for comment.
In June Mr Greer stepped down from Shell soon after the leaking of an email in which he urged workers to “lead me, follow me or get out of my way… All real engineers love the sting and clash of challenge,” he wrote. Shell said yesterday there was still much due diligence to do on the Regal deal before is was formally agreed.
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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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