By Fred Pals – Sep 15, 2010 10:03 AM GMT+0100
Royal Dutch Shell Plc, Europes largest oil company, started production at the 100,000 barrel-a- day expansion of its oil sands development in Canada.
The company completed the Jackpine Mine at the project in northern Alberta, adding capacity to the existing Muskeg River Mines 155,000 barrels of oil equivalent a day, Shell said today in a statement. Output will rise toward capacity in 2011 once the Scotford upgrader is ready, Shell said.
Canadas oil sands, a mixture of sand, clay, water and a heavy oil called bitumen, contain the worlds second-largest proven concentration of crude at about 170 billion barrels. Higher oil prices and advances in technology have prompted companies including Shell and BP Plc to invest in tapping Canadas oil sands.
Shell is targeting an 11 percent increase in production by 2012 to 3.5 million barrels of oil equivalent a day from 2009. The Anglo-Dutch company is also targeting hard-to-reach rock formations for potential fuel in Australia, China and the U.S, as well as projects in Qatar, to boost production growth.
Shell operates the Athabasca Oil Sands Project in which it has a 60 percent stake. Chevron Corp. and Marathon Oil Corp. share the remaining 40 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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A head-cut image of Alfred Donovan (now deceased) appears courtesy of The Wall Street Journal.
