THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
APRIL 29, 2009, 7:42 A.M. ET
LONDON (Dow Jones)–Royal Dutch Shell PLC’s (RDSB.LN) output from onshore operations in Nigeria was more than 90,000 barrels equivalent per day, or 38.5%, lower in the first quarter of 2009 compared with a year ago as security problems shut down a major pipeline and gas plant, the chief financial officer Wednesday.
Two-thirds of the output loss resulted from the shutdown of the Soku gas plant for almost the whole quarter, Peter Voser said.
Shell’s share of oil and gas production from the Shell Petroleum and Development company, its joint venture with the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation and international oil companies Total SA (TOT) and Eni SpA (E), was 144,000 boe per day in the first quarter, compared with 234,000 boe per day a year ago, a spokesman said.
Shell’s offshore oil production, which is not operated by SPDC, was 130,000 boe per day, down from 154,000 boe per day the previous year due to quota cuts by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, the spokesman said.
SPDC shut down Soku in November to remove more than a hundred illegal connections that were used to steal natural gas condensate from an export pipeline. Voser said the security situation was still too sensitive to give a timeframe for a restart.
SPDC also had to shut down the 150,000 barrel a day Trans-Niger oil pipeline and declare force majeure on some exports from the Bonny oil terminal after a fire at a manifold station earlier this month. Voser declined to comment on the pipeline’s status.
It is commonplace for attempts at oil theft to damage pipelines and cause fires in the Niger Delta.
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-By James Herron, Dow Jones Newswires; +44 (0)20 7842 9317; [email protected]
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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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