Daily Mail
By SARAH MARKS
Last updated at 5:36 PM on 03rd October 2008
Mystery and speculation once again engulfed Regal Petroleum as reports of a £666million takeover by Shell were denied.
The Daily Telegraph today reported Shell had written to Regal chairman Keith Henry proposing a deal that values Regal shares at 300p each, a huge premium to the 83p at which the stock closed last night.
But Regal whose share had begun to soar before settling on a 36 per cent rise to 113p, said unequivocally in a statement to the Stock Exchange that ‘no such approach has been received’.
The report and subsequent rebuttal immediately started tongues wagging in a notoriously gossipy industry.
It is understood that a letter proposing such a deal is in existence but there are doubts as to its status. The popular theory is that the letter is a forgery and being used by persons or parties unknown to ramp up the Regal share price.The Daily Telegraph today reported that Shell had written to Regal chairman Keith Henry proposing a deal that values Regal shares at 300p each, a huge premium to the 83p at which the stock closed last night.
But Regal whose shares had begun to soar before settling on a 42p rise to 125p, said unequivocally in a statement to the Stock Exchange that ‘no such approach has been received’.
The report and subsequent rebuttal immediately started tongues wagging in a notoriously gossipy industry.
It is understood that a letter proposing such a deal is in existence but there are doubts as to its status. The popular theory is that the letter is a forgery and being used by persons or parties unknown to ramp up the Regal share price. The conspiracy theory is that it is a leak of letter that Shell – a fellow Ukraine explorer – had not yet sent. The least likely theory is that Shell had sent the letter but that the Post Office has yet to deliver it.
Regal founder, 15 per cent shareholder and one-time chief executive Frank Timis caused a storm in 2005 when he appeared to crank up hopes of a major oil find off the coast of Greece only for the wells to be found to be dry, burning many investors who had chased the shares up to 500p. Timis, however, would pocket £99million were a deal to go through at this level.
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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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