Mon Feb 4, 2008 10:35am EST
BRUSSELS, Feb 4 (Reuters) – Privately held Basell [BASL.UL] won permission from the European Commission on Monday to buy the Berre-l’Etang refinery in France from Royal Dutch Shell (RDSa.L: Quote, Profile, Research) for $700 million.
Basell is a large, European plastics maker and provider of proprietary petrochemical process technologies. Berre-l’Etang, in southern France, is relatively small with a capacity of 80,000 barrels per day.
“Given the parties’ limited position on all the upstream and downstream markets, the Commission concluded that the transaction would not strengthen either the parties’ incentive or their ability to close off the market to competitors,” the European Union’s top competition regulator said in a statement.
The refinery makes petrochemical products including naphtha, jet fuel, gasoline, heating oil, bitumen, fuel oil and gasoil. Basell will also buy the infrastructure associated with the refinery, including pipelines and terminals. (Reporting by David Lawsky/Dale Hudson)
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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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