Monday 06 October 2008
Regal Petroleum, a British-based explorer focusing on Ukraine, on Friday denied a report that it got a $1.2 billion offer from Shell. The company’s shares jumped the most in more than four years in London trading.
Regal rose 42 pence, or 51 percent, to close at 125 pence, the most since January 2004, valuing the company at ?264.6 million ($470.7 million). The gain trims the stock’s fall this year to 17 percent.
“No such approach has been received,” Regal said in a statement. A spokesman said Shell had inquired whether the company would be prepared to share some of its new rigs in Ukraine.
Speculation over possible mergers and acquisitions in the industry has grown as oil company stocks have retreated amid a 35 percent drop in crude prices since July’s record. The Dow Jones Europe Stoxx Oil & Gas Index posted its biggest quarterly decline in more than two decades in the three months through September.
The Daily Telegraph reported Friday that Shell, which tried to buy Regal’s Ukrainian assets last year, has “within the last few days” written to the company with a takeover proposal of 300 pence a share. Regal CEO David Greer declined to comment, as did Shell spokeswoman Olga Gorodilina.
http://www.moscowtimes.ru/article/1009/42/371453.htm
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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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