From a Press Release
14 September 2009
The Board of Royal Dutch Shell plc (Shell) has taken the Final Investment Decision on the Gorgon liquefied natural gas (LNG) project, signalling the start of initial construction on one of the world’s largest natural gas developments. Chevron will operate the project, with a 50% stake, with participants Shell and ExxonMobil each holding 25% shares.
“This is a great milestone for Shell and Australia,” said Malcolm Brinded, Shell’s Executive Director, Upstream International. “The project will nearly double Australia’s liquefied natural gas output and we expect it to be in production for decades to come.”
The project will include construction of a liquefied natural gas facility with an annual capacity of around 15 million tonnes per year on Barrow Island, off Western Australia’s coast. The project plan incorporates stringent environmental standards designed to protect the island’s natural heritage.
Plans call for development of the Greater Gorgon gas fields, beginning with the Gorgon and Jansz-Io gas fields – the largest gas discoveries to date in Australia – with development facilities installed directly on the ocean floor, in water up to 1,300 metres deep. Two subsea pipelines with a combined length of 240 kilometres will carry the gas to facilities on Barrow Island.
Gorgon is also expected to be a world leader in capturing the naturally occurring carbon dioxide produced alongside natural gas and storing it safely underground, more than two kilometres beneath Barrow Island.
Jon Chadwick, Shell’s Executive Vice President, Australia – Upstream, said: “The Gorgon project will provide important supplies of energy to the fast-growing economies of the Asia-Pacific region and will have a domestic gas supply component which we anticipate will be jointly marketed to gas customers in Western Australia.”
In November 2008, Shell announced a long-term supply agreement with PetroChina for LNG from its share of Gorgon. During the 20-year contract term Shell will sell up to two million tonnes of LNG per year to PetroChina. Shell’s access to LNG import terminals around the world provides further options for Gorgon gas.
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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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