By Joao Lima
Nov. 7 (Bloomberg) — Royal Dutch Shell Plc plans to start drilling Brazilian deepwater oil finds below a salt layer at the end of 2009 in the Epitonio field, in the BM-S-54 block, Valor Economico reported, without saying where it got the information.
Shell has 13 concessions in Brazil, two of which are in production, the Brazilian newspaper said on its Web site.
Separately, the Espirito Santo floating platform, with capacity to process 100,000 barrels of oil a day, is due to arrive in December or January and will produce oil and gas at the BC-10 block where the Ostra, Abalone and Argonauta fields are located, Valor said. Brazil’s Petroleo Brasileiro SA holds 35 percent of that project and India’s Oil & Natural Gas Corp. has 15 percent, the newspaper said.
Jonas Castro, a geologist formerly employed with Brazil’s oil regulator and with Petrobras, is Shell’s new manager of exploration in Brazil, according to Valor.
To contact the reporter on this story: Joao Lima in Lisbon at[email protected].
Last Updated: November 7, 2008 04:59 EST
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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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