By Eduard Gismatullin
Bloomberg News May 24, 2011
Royal Dutch Shell Plc, Europes largest oil company, is examining plans to bring legal challenges over possible losses after last years Macondo oil spill, the worst in U.S. history.
I am considering, but only considering, Peter Rees, a legal director at Shell, said today at an International Bar Associations webcast. Before launching any form of action or deciding not to launch any form of action you need to gather as much information as you can.
Shell production may be reduced by 50,000 barrels of oil equivalent a day in 2011 because of delays in acquiring drilling permits from the U.S. government after the spill, Chief Executive Officer Peter Voser said on May 17. If delays continue it may impact 2012 output.
The U.S. Interior Department issued new safety regulations after it lifted the drilling moratorium put in place after BP Plcs Macondo well exploded in April 2010. The blowout, which killed 11 and sank the drilling rig, led to hundreds of lawsuits against BP and its partners and contractors.
Shell Chief Financial Officer Simon Henry said April 28 the company had lost between 25,000 and 30,000 barrels a day of production in the first quarter because of permit delays.
The company may lose about $600 million in revenue this year as a consequence of the spill, Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. said in February. The company postponed about $700 million of investments in the Gulf of Mexico and lost $260 million because of idled rigs in the region last year, Henry said Feb. 3.
Shell has until April 2013 to decide whether to bring any legal challenges, Rees said today.
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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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