Shell is set to become the first Western energy company to return to Baghdad since the Iraq war started in 2003.
Shell will own 49% of the venture
The Anglo Dutch giant has agreed a joint gas venture worth more than £2bn with the Iraq oil ministry.
It will capture unwanted gas burned off during oil production, for domestic consumption and export.
State-owned Southern Oil Co will own 51% of the venture and Shell 49%.
“Europe is looking for supplies of gas from Iraq,” an Iraqi oil spokesman said.
“Security used to be a deterrent, but now companies feel that security has improved and this will encourage others to come in.”
Energy broker Rob Laughlin was of the same opinion.
He told Sky News: “I think we’re going to see other people following Shell.
“Now that Iraq has become a safer place companies now feel more secure in operating out there.
“Pipeline ruptures seem to be a thing of the past as far as Iraq is concerned.”
Iraq has the world’s third-largest oil reserves and vast reserves of gas which are almost completely untapped.
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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A head-cut image of Alfred Donovan (now deceased) appears courtesy of The Wall Street Journal.
