FROM A FORMER SHELL NORTH SEA PLATFORM OIM
You may be interested in this article from today’s Aberdeen Press and Journal
http://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/Article.aspx/2214497
For many years now we have heard the phrase “we are committed to safety” What exactly does this mean? Is it to pacify the readers of various media reports or do the Companies who utter such statements really understand the meaning they infer. Perhaps we can revisit what these statements mean, maybe not what the dictionary defines!
Commit
Commitment
Committed
The dictionary relates these words to: be responsible for, engage in, enact, accomplish and be responsible for, obligation and duty, liability etc etc.
What hollow words we in the Oil Industry know these to be, time and time the Oil Industry are seen to be in violation of the Standards that are trotted out to the Regulators and the Media. It is only when they are caught red handed we hear these words again and again.
Today’s Aberdeen Press and Journal highlights yet another disgraceful state of affairs, not only on one drilling rig, but the entire fleet of Transocean drilling rigs in the UK sector. The question now left hanging is, what about the rest of the world wide Transocean fleet? The odds are just the same.
Shell use this contractor all over the globe and we know that the recent near disaster of the Transocean drilling rig, Sedco 711 in the North Sea was subjected to an attempted cover up by Shell which failed. Yet another example of the Brinded TFA approach?
Time for Regulators world wide to take off the gloves and put an end to the continued application of the blind eye approach to Big Oil and hit them hard where it hurts, in the pocket. Perhaps a few prosecutions of Company Directors would end this nonsense for ever.
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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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