Washington (Platts)–31Mar2011/408 pm EDT/2008 GMT
Shell said Thursday it plans to start drilling an exploratory well in its Cardamom Deep discovery in the US Gulf of Mexico next month.
The work represents the first new deepwater exploration to clear all regulatory hurdles since last year’s Deepwater Horizon disaster and subsequent drilling moratorium.
Spokesman Bill Tanner said the Noble Jim Thompson semi-submersible rig is under contract and ready to move to the site sometime in April.
On Wednesday, the US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement approved Shell’s permit to drill in Garden Banks Block 427 in 2,721 feet of water, about 140 miles south of Lafayette, Louisiana.
The approval came about a week after BOEM signed off on Shell’s broader exploration plan calling for three wells into the reservoir. Shell will have to return to regulators before drilling the other two proposed wells.
BOEM has approved eight permits for seven unique wells and one exploration plan since February 28. Eleven permit applications are pending, the agency said Wednesday.
–Meghan Gordon, [email protected]
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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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