By John Donovan
On 19 January disturbing rumours over the Motiva Plant expansion in Port Arthur Texas were brought to our attention. Motiva Enterprises LLC is jointly owned by Saudi Refining and Shell.
Can any inside source confirm that the project is significantly over budget? It it true that there is a corruption problem and that some parts of the projects have been put on hold and Shell employees reassigned? Has Port Arthur Refinery Manager Tom Purvis personally taken control of the project?
A rumour that contractors were being laid off work was subsequently confirmed in an article published by The Port Arthur News.
We regularly receive information and obviously protect the identity of sources. Within minutes of receiving leaked Shell internal emails yesterday authored by Royal Dutch Shell Plc CEO Jeroen van der Veer and EP Chief Executive Malcolm Brinded, a syndicated article – “Shell gets tough on costs as oil prices bite” – featuring extensive extracts from the email, was published by numerous news organisations including: –
London Stock Exchange (AFX News)
Shell is always given the opportunity to substantiate facts and comment prior to publication. Sources are never revealed.
We recently reported on another project involving Saudi Arabia and Shell…
Shell, Saudi Arabia, Arms-for-Oil, Corruption, & Radioactive Contamination: 5 December 2008
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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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A head-cut image of Alfred Donovan (now deceased) appears courtesy of The Wall Street Journal.
