26 June 2012 Last updated at 19:01
Hundreds of job losses have been confirmed in a deal that will see one of UK’s biggest oil refineries become a storage depot.
Administrators PwC said the site in Coryton, Essex, would become an “import terminal” for petrol and diesel.
The site will be operated by Royal Vopak, Greenergy and Shell UK, PwC said.
Steven Pearson, of PwC, said the closure would see the “majority” of the 500 Coryton employees made redundant.
The plant, which previously supplied 20% of fuel in London and the South East, ceased production earlier this month.
‘Difficult time’
About 350 contractors also worked on the site, which was placed into administration by its Swiss owner Petroplus in January.
Mr Pearson, the joint administrator, said: “We have been able to obtain the highest price by selling the site for an alternative use.
“We recognise that the closure results in the redundancy of the majority of the employees at Coryton and we intend to work with the local agencies and authorities to provide assistance during this difficult time.
“We now have to spend the coming weeks and months completing the removal of the remaining oil and ensuring that the closure programme is safely managed ahead of the sale of the assets to the joint venture partners.”
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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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