By Geoff Foster
20th August 2010
Spotlight: Oil giant BG Group has always been rumoured to be at the top of Royal Dutch Shell’s shopping list
It would certainly make dealers’ eyes water and be one of the biggest ever deals in UK corporate history: a £54billion, or £16 a share, cash bid by Royal Dutch Shell (49p down at 1740p) for BG Group, the oil and gas exploration division that used to be part of British Gas.
That was the rumour doing the rounds yesterday following an interesting interview down under.
Ann Pickard, Shell Australia’s executive vice president, revealed that Europe’s largest oil company plans to spend up to £32billion in Australia over the next ten years as it concentrates more on gas production.
Royal Dutch Shell has a war chest of up to £60billion for acquisitions and BG Group has always been rumoured to be at the top of its shopping list. Pickard’s comments immediately prompted speculative buying of BG’s shares, which touched 1059p before the general dull trend left them 6p easier at 1030p.
Shell apparently plans more than a dozen liquefied natural gas (LNG) projects in Australia, and by 2012 it forecasts that more than 50 per cent of its production will come from gas. Shell agreed in March to acquire Arrow Energy for £1.9billion, giving it reserves to feed an LNG venture in Queensland state.
But if Shell really wants to substantially up its game in Australia, then an offer for BG Group is considered to be a no-brainer. BG entered Australia in early February 2008 via an alliance with Queensland Gas Company to develop coal seam gas fields and construct and own an LNG plant. Its total reserves and resources are now 2.9billion barrels of oil equivalent.
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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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