Shell makes move into Iraq
By Ed Crooks
Published: September 23 2008 03:00 | Last updated: September 23 2008 03:00
Royal Dutch Shell has opened an office in Baghdad as Europe’s biggest energy company became the first western oil major to sign a deal with the Iraqi government since the US-led invasion of 2003.
Linda Cook, Shell’s head of gas and power, was in Baghdad yesterday to sign a multi-billion dollar agreement to make commercial use of gas currently being flared off in southern Iraq.
The initial agreement is only for a feasibility study and commercial principles for a joint venture between Shell, which would have 49 per cent, and the Iraqi government with 51 per cent. However, the potential is large. The oil-producing region covered by the agreement is 19,000 square km in area and there is 700m cubic feet of gas being burned off every day: the same energy content as about 130,000 barrels of oil per day. Ed Crooks
Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2008
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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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