REUTERS
AMSTERDAM, Dec 18 (Reuters) – The Dutch NAM oil joint venture, owned by Royal Dutch Shell (RDSa.L) and Exxon Mobil (XOM.N), said on Friday it would postpone plans to drill three gas fields near an island off the coast of the Netherlands.
NAM said investigations had shown that only one of the fields near the Ameland island had enough gas to make production worthwhile, and the company would therefore look at other fields in its portfolio to exploit.
“Although the amount of gas is interesting in principle, the costs to start production are still relatively high,” said Barend Botter, a director at NAM, adding that the plans for the fields could still be resumed in future when costs were lower.
The Netherlands sits on Western Europe’s second biggest gas reserves after Norway, and its total known resources at present are estimated at 1,345 billion cubic metres, of which about 86 percent are located onshore, according to government data.
Developers in the Netherlands are also eyeing new ways to exploit gas as traditional resources decline, but they say technological advances and state stimulus measures will be needed for projects to go ahead. [ID:nL9112053]
(Reporting by Catherine Hornby; Editing by Keiron Henderson)
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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.
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