By Eduard Gismatullin – Sep 27, 2010
Royal Dutch Shell Plc and partners are investing $2 billion in a program to end natural gas flaring in Nigeria, Africas biggest oil producer, after the projects were delayed because of funding and security problems.
Shell Petroleum Development Co. of Nigeria, or SPDC, has invested more than $3 billion since 2002 to cut flaring of gas, which is pumped together with oil, said Alice Ajeh, a Nigeria- based spokeswoman at Shell. Flaring decreased 65 percent between 2002 and 2009, partly because of lower production, she said.
Due to security and funding issues, especially funding shortfall from our majority partner, a lot of the projects were stalled, or delayed, Ajeh said in Shell video interview. However, these projects are going right now, and we are happy at the pace at which they are going, she said without saying when the flaring will end.
Attacks by armed groups in the Niger Delta, home to Nigerias energy industry, cut more than 28 percent of the countrys oil production between 2006 and 2009 and deterred investment. Output started to recover after a government amnesty program last year prompted thousands of fighters to disarm.
SPDC accounts for 75 percent of domestic gas supply in Nigeria. Last year, 48 companies expressed interest in ventures that will help to stop the practice of burning off gas into the air.
Once the program is completed, it will cover more than 75 percent of SPDCs production potential, Ajeh said.
The Hague-based Shell, Europes largest oil company, holds 30 percent of SPDC; Nigeria National Petroleum Corp. holds a 55 stake; Total SA has 10 percent; and Eni SpA 5 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.
