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AMSTERDAM/STUTTGART, Sept 15 (Reuters) – At least two utilities are eyeing the German gas storage assets of Exxon Mobil Corp (XOM.N) and Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSa.L), valued at up to 1 billion euros ($1.30 billion), people familiar with the matter said Wednesday.
German power utility EnBW (EBKG.DE) is one of the contenders and is in talks with Antin Infrastructure Partners, a fund backed by BNP Paribas (BNPP.PA), about submitting a joint offer, sources familiar with the negotiations said.
“EnBW is interested. They are checking and exploring the offer as other interested buyers are,” said one of the sources close to EnBW.
France’s GDF Suez (GSZ.PA), which owns stakes in two of the gas storage sites and is the technical operator of three of them, is also in discussion with the oil majors about acquiring the assets, two other people familiar with the matter said.
Spokespeople for Shell, BEB, EnBW and Antin declined to comment. A GDF Suez spokesman was not immediately available for comment.
The enterprise value of the storage sites for sale is estimated between 500 to 700 million euros and could reach 1 billion euros if the cushion gas needed to keep them operational is factored in, sources have previously told Reuters.
(Reporting by Greg Roumeliotis and Hendrik Sackmann; Additional reporting by Nina Sovich in Paris; editing by Elaine Hardcastle)
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.
