By Edward Klump – Aug 12, 2010 9:05 PM
Chevron Corp., the second-largest U.S. oil company, announced a natural-gas discovery in the Exmouth Plateau area off the northwest coast of Australia.
The Brederode-1 exploration well was drilled to a depth of 9,022 feet (2,750 meters) in waters 4,550 feet deep, San Ramon, California-based Chevron said today in a statement. It found 49 feet of net gas pay, the company said.
The discovery provides further evidence of the gas potential of the Exmouth Plateau in the Carnarvon Basin, Chevron Vice Chairman George Kirkland said in the statement. It follows a 2009 discovery in the same area and extends known gas resources farther off Australias shores, the company said.
Chevron, the largest holder of undeveloped gas resources in Australia, is operator of the WA-364-P permit area, which includes the Brederode-1 well site, and has a 50 percent stake in the prospect. A unit of Europes Royal Dutch Shell Plc owns the other 50 percent.
Chevron Chief Executive Officer John Watson seeks to boost oil and gas production with wells in places such as the Gulf of Mexico and Australia. The company has said its proposed Wheatstone and Gorgon liquefied-natural-gas ventures are centerpieces of its global growth plans.
Chevron fell 6 cents to $77.07 as of the 4 p.m. close of New York Stock Exchange composite trading. Shell rose 1 pence to 1,781.5 pence in London.
Exxon Mobil Corp. is the largest U.S. oil company.
To contact the reporter on this story: Edward Klump in Houston at [email protected].
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.
