By Eduard Gismatullin – Sep 30, 2010
Regal Petroleum Plc, the U.K. explorer focusing on natural-gas projects in Ukraine, fell to the lowest share price on record after Chief Executive Officer David Greer quit and as gas wells failed to stabilize output.
Regal dropped as much as 31 percent to 18.25 pence in London trading, the lowest price since Sept. 27, 2002. The stock was at 21 pence at 10:03 a.m. local time, valuing the company at 66.86 million pounds ($106 million). The shares have fallen about 80 percent in the last year.
Keith Henry, Regals chairman, will assume Greers responsibilities until further notice, the London-based company said today in a statement.
Some Ukrainian wells have failed to stabilize gas production, Regal said in a separate statement. Its perforation works and tests of the T- and D-sands in the Mex-106 well didnt show any evidence of inflow, it said.
In April, Regal decided to shift its focus away from deep- level exploration of Tournasian- and Devonian-age layers, or T and D-sands, toward production from Visean aged, or B-sand, shallower deposits. It has been working to boost production from its Mekhediviska-Golotvshinska and Svyrydivske fields in Ukraine after missing an output target of 3,000 barrels of oil equivalent a day last year.
Output rose to an average 2,377 barrels of oil a day in June, up from 1,452 barrels a day in December, Regal said.
Greer, a former Royal Dutch Shell Plc executive, joined Regal on Nov. 22, 2007, a day after the Anglo-Dutch company bid $410 million for Regals two Ukrainian gas fields. On Nov. 23, Shell called off its approach.
Greer worked on Shells Sakhalin-2 oil and gas exploration project in Russia. He quit as project director in June 2007 after sending a motivational memo to staff in April urging them to advance pipeline construction and saying he despised cowards, according to Shell. The company denied the two events were linked.
OAO Gazprom, Russias state-owned natural gas monopoly, took control of Sakhalin-2 on April 18, 2007, to accelerate its development after criticism by the Russian government over environmental damage and construction delays.
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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.
