January 11, 2010, 05:37 AM EST
By Ben Farey and Mathew Carr
Jan. 11 (Bloomberg) — Royal Dutch Shell Plc said its Ormen Lange natural-gas field, Europes third-largest, halted output this weekend and remains closed because of bad weather.
Production at Ormen Lange has been shut as a result of continued bad weather in Norway and Shell is working to resume operations, David Williams, a company spokesman, said today by telephone from The Hague. Shell operates the Norwegian field.
Ormen Lange, the main source of gas for the Langeled pipeline from Norway, is expected to meet as much as 20 percent of Britains gas demand for the next 40 years, according to shareholder Statoil ASA. Shell expects the field to reach maximum output of 70 million cubic meters a day this year.
Langeled, the worlds longest sub-sea link, carries Ormen Lange gas from the Nyhamna terminal in northern Norway to the Sleipner platform in the North Sea and then on to the U.K., Belgium, France or Germany.
Statoil holds 28.91 percent of the Ormen Lange development. Its partners include Shell with 17.04 percent and Norways Petoro AS with 36.48 percent. Dong Energy A/S holds 10.34 percent and Exxon Mobil Corp. has 7.23 percent.
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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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