LONDON Royal Dutch Shell will announce a major company restructuring, merging its exploration and production and gas and power units and laying off more than 30 percent of senior management, according to a post on the blog of Shell critic John Donovan Tuesday.
Shell’s incoming chief executive Peter Voser will announce the measures Thursday at a meeting of around 100 top company executives in Berlin, Donovan wrote on the blog royaldutchshellplc.com, citing multiple unnamed people working for Shell.
The merged units will be run on a centrally organized basis and some regional offices will be closed, he said.
A Shell spokesman declined to comment on the report.
A person familiar with Shell’s thinking told Dow Jones Newswires that Voser put this restructuring plan to the Shell board, with the aim of making significant costs cuts, some months ago when he was competing to replace current chief executive Jeroen van der Veer, who retires at the end of June.
“This has been bubbling away for quite some time,” and Voser’s rise to the position of chief executive has brought it to a head, the person said. The resignation Tuesday of Shell’s gas and power chief, Linda Cook, who was also a candidate for the top job, is probably related to Voser’s plan and their sometimes difficult working relationship, the person said.
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.
