The Australian
Matt Chambers
Thursday March 11, 2010 12:00AM
ROYAL Dutch Shell will this month fly its new head of Australian production and exploration, Ann Pickard, into the centre of its $3.3 billion joint bid for Arrow Energy.
The appointment of Ms Pickard — head of Shell’s operations in the restive Nigerian delta oilfields and the rest of Africa for the past five years — is seen as a sign of Australia’s growing importance to Shell, which is planning big liquefied natural gas projects on the east and west coasts.
Shell has interests in the Gorgon, Browse, Prelude and Sunrise projects on the west coast and the Curtis Island LNG plant on the east coast. Ms Pickard is due to start in Australia at the end of the month.
Shell would not say whether its partnership with PetroChina to jointly acquire Arrow had influenced Ms Pickard’s start date.
There was no word from Arrow or Shell yesterday on the cash bid. Arrow is still deciding whether to dump its proposed purchase of LNG Ltd’s Fisherman’s Landing LNG project in Gladstone in favour of Shell and PetroChina’s $4.45 a share offer for its Australian assets. Arrow shares rose 1c to $5.03 yesterday.
The premium to the offer reflects the 50c to 75c at which analysts value Arrow’s international coal seam gas ground.
Ms Pickard’s previous posting in Lagos, Nigeria, has been described as the most dangerous executive job in global oil.
Last year, she was named the world’s 25th most powerful businesswoman by Forbes.
Ms Pickard will be a headline speaker at this year’s Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration Association conference in Brisbane in May.
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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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