Daily Telegraph
Peter Sutherland, the chairman of BP, has agreed to extend his tenure at the oil giant in order to facilitate the potential appointment of Paul Skinner, the Rio Tinto chairman, as his successor, The Sunday Telegraph has learnt.
Sutherland, who is due to retire at BPs annual meeting next spring, has told boardroom colleagues that he is prepared to stay on until the summer of 2009.
Although Skinner is the preferred choice of the BP board and is likely to be interested in the post, he has refused to hold conclusive discussions with BP while the fate of BHP Billitons hostile takeover bid for Rio Tinto is unresolved.
The European Commission is expected to send a statement of objections to BHP shortly, setting out potential disposals it might be expected to make in order to secure approval for the merger. However, if BHP does secure the takeover, it is unlikely to be completed until well into next year.
Skinner, a former executive at Shell, has been chairman of Rio since 2003 and is expected to step down next year regardless of the BP job and the outcome of the BHP bid. He was unavailable for comment last night. BP, which reports third-quarter results this week, declined to comment.
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.
