By Tom Mcghie
Last updated at 10:15 PM on 19th March 2011
Attractive prospects: Stanlow oil refinery in Cheshire has huge storage depots
Shell is to sell its Stanlow oil refinery, the second-biggest in Britain, to fledgling Indian energy giant Essar Energy in a deal worth more than £700 million.
The refinery on the 1,900-acre site in Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, will be sold for £217 million while the oil and petrol in the refinery will be sold off separately for nearly £500 million.
When the deal is completed all 960 workers will be retained and, in an unusual concession by an employer, will be able to keep their generous and increasingly rare final salary pension scheme.
Essar, 25 per cent of which was floated on the London Stock Exchange for £1.8 billion last year, plans to invest hundreds of millions of pounds in the plant to allow it to make top-grade petrol from ‘heavy’ oil rather than the more expensive ‘sweet’ oil favoured in Britain.
This will let the refinery raise its productivity from about 220,000 barrels of oil a day to nearer 300,000 barrels.
A key element of the Essar plan is to use the massive storage depots next to the plant. These will hold petrol sent from its new refineries being built in India.
Essar ultimately wants to be a big player in the business of supplying petrol to Britain.
Essar is owned by the Ruia family, which is conservatively valued at more than £8 billion and owns businesses ranging from steel-making and retail outlets to Canadian newspapers.
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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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