LONDON | Thu Dec 1, 2011 6:32am EST
Dec 1 (Reuters) – Vivo Energy, the joint venture between the world’s biggest oil trader Vitol, Royal Dutch Shell and Helios Investment Partners, has started a fuel distribution business in Africa, the joint venture said in a news release on Thursday.
The joint venture was announced in February, when oil major Shell sold its African downstream business to Vitol and Helios.
Refined fuels will be distributed via Vivo Energy, in which Vitol and Helios each own 40 percent. Shell holds the remaining 20 percent.
Lubricants are distributed by Shell and Vivo Lubricants, which is 50 percent owned by Shell. The rest is owned by Vitol and Helios.
Top independent trading houses have been expanding African downstream business this year, mostly picking up assets divested by oil majors.
Vitol’s rival Trafigura agreed in September to buy Chevron’s fuel marketing business in Namibia.
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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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