Shell says still talking on Iraq oil service deal
LONDON, Aug 21 (Reuters) – Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSa.L: Quote, Profile,Research, Stock Buzz) said it was still in talks with Iraq about a short-term service contract to help boost oil production, despite a U.S. diplomat in Baghdad suggesting such deals may be dropped.
“Negotiations go on,” a Shell spokesman said, but he declined to give further details.
Iraq and major international oil companies have been negotiating six short-term technical service contracts, each worth about $500 million and targeting a 100,000 bpd increase in output but Baghdad has been frustrated by the slow progress.
The contracts were to formalise the assistance which the companies had been providing free of charge in recent years and sources at the oil majors said this assistance had been reduced sharply in the past year.
The coordinator for Iraq’s economic transition at the U.S. embassy in Baghdad, Charles Ries, said on Sunday that Iraq’s government may drop all of the contracts. (Reporting by Tom Bergin; Editing by Paul Bolding)
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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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