Jeroen van der Veer, chief of Royal Dutch Shell, earlier this year predicted 2015 as the year the world reaches peak production. John Hess of Hess Corp. said: "An oil crisis is coming in the next 10 years. It's not a matter of demand. It's not a matter of supplies. It's both."
August 17th, 2008:
Peak oil is coming, and we’re unready
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Paddy Briggs leadership of the world’s largest re-imaging programme’
(UPDATED INFORMATION: AS OF JAN 2010, PADDY BRIGGS BECAME AN ELECTED TRUSTEE OF THE SHELL CONTRIBUTORY PENSION FUND)
By John Donovan
As regular visitors are aware, former Royal Dutch Shell executive, Paddy Briggs, is a welcome contributing author of insightful articles on this website.
Paddy is a modest fellow so it was interesting to stumble across a reference to him and his leadership at Shell of the world’s largest re-imaging programme’ on pages 378/379 of the book: A CENTURY IN OIL
Oil shale stuck between rock and wild place
Over five years here, Shell Oil conducted a series of secretive experiments that have the potential to blow open the status quo of North American oil production, unlocking the vast reserves of oil shale that underlie Colorado's Western Slope.
Solitaire sails into an Irish storm
Printed below is a request received from Maura Harrington from the Sea to Shell Campaign followed by her email correspondence with Allseas, the Swiss-based owner of the Solitaire, the worlds largest and most powerful offshore pipelaying vessel expected to arrive shortly in Broadhaven Bay, Ireland, after being chartered by Shell.
Europe’s energy source lies in the shadow of Russia’s anger
Behind the tanks in Ossetia are key oil and gas pipelines...
Hillbillies making millions out of American gas rush
The world's biggest natural gas exploration companies, including Shell, Conoco, Chesapeake, Petrohawk and EnCana, have descended on the vast area between the Arkansas border and Shreveport, Louisiana, to tap what most experts agree is a reservoir of about 240 trillion cubic feet of gas.
Georgia: More trouble in the pipeline
The crisis in Georgia has focused minds on the supply of oil to western Europe via lines that cross - and avoid - Russia.
A divided West plays into Russia’s hands
Both Shell and BP have been the victims of Russias resource nationalism and Ukraine and Georgia have been on the receiving end of Moscows use of the energy weapon. Fast forward a few years and Britain and other EU countries could find the lights going out, courtesy of Russia, and there would be little anybody could do about it.
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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