By Selina Williams
Last update: 6:23 a.m. EST Dec. 5, 2007
ABU DHABI (MarketWatch) — Iraq’s oil minister, Hussein al-Shahristani, is Wednesday to meet senior executives from oil majors BP PLC and Royal Dutch Shell PLC after a meeting of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries.
The executives confirmed a meeting would take place following OPEC’s policy meeting Wednesday, but they didn’t disclose the nature of the talks.
In early November, al-Shahristani said Iraq was close to hiring five major oil companies to help increase oil output by 500,000 barrels a day by the end of 2009 through technical service agreements.
The minister declined to name the companies involved in the talks although people close to the matter have said Shell was being considered.
The contracts are to help increase output in six oil fields: Rumeila South, Rumeila North, Zubair, Subba/Luhais and Missan in southern Iraq and Kirkuk, al-Shahristani said in November.
Iraq is currently producing around 2.2 million barrels a day, mostly from these oil fields.
Earlier this year, a senior Iraqi oil official said Shell had submitted a plan to the Iraqi oil ministry to redevelop Missan in southern Iraq.
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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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