Energy Business Review
21st January 2009
Royal Dutch Shell has announced plans to expand its retail presence in India in 2009, as the Indian government plans to introduce a market-led pricing regime for petrol and diesel, according to PetrolWorld.
Shell currently operates around 50 retail outlets in India and is planning to expand its network by an additional 150 stores in 2009. It has the license to open 2,000 petrol stations in the country. The company is reportedly seeking to invest around INR2 billion to INR2.5 billion in the first phase of expansion.
Shell has been selling branded petrol and diesel in India during the recent uptrend in crude oil prices. Branded fuel prices are exempt from the Indian government’s pricing regime.
Vikram Mehta, chairman of Shell’s Indian business, was quoted by the news source as saying that the company plans to expand in southern and western parts of India in 2009.
The fall in global crude oil prices and the Indian government’s plans to de-regulate the retail fuel industry has encouraged Shell to consider expanding its retail footprint in India, according to the report.
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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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