TOKYO, Dec 16 (Reuters) – Showa Shell Sekiyu (5002.T: Quote, Profile, Research,Stock Buzz), Japan’s fifth-biggest oil refiner, has been making efforts to boost its oil export capacity to make up for a shrinking domestic market, a company source said.
The source declined to provide details but the NenryoYushi, an energy industry newspaper, reported that Showa Shell aims to roughly double its export capacity to about 5 million kilolitres a year (86,000 barrels per day).
Japanese refiners including top-ranked Nippon Oil Corp (5001.T: Quote, Profile,Research, Stock Buzz) have been raising oil export capacity as the economic downturn and aging population eat into energy demand at home. Japan’s oil product sales in October tumbled to their lowest level in 20 years for the month. [ID:nT137450]
Showa Shell said in October it expected to more than triple its oil product exports to 850,000 kl (58,000 bpd) in October-December compared with a year earlier, to compensate for flagging sales at home.
Last month, it cut its crude refining volume plan by 100,000 kilolitres (630,000 barrels) in November-December from its original plan in response to declining demand at home. (Reporting by Osamu Tsukimori; Editing by Chris Gallagher)
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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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