By Jennifer A. Dlouhy, Washington Bureau Published 7:29 pm, Friday, April 5, 2013
Lessons learned from Shell’s problem-plagued 2012 Arctic drilling operations will apply not just to that company’s future work in the Chukchi and Beaufort seas, but to Houston-based ConocoPhillips and other firms with leases in those waters, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar says.
That could include ensuring that the firms have access to specialized oil spill containment equipment or do a better job broadly assessing and managing risks in the remote region north of Alaska. A high-level Interior Department probe of Shell’s program last month concluded the company did not sufficiently oversee and manage an array of contractors and seemed to focus on complying with regulations rather than holistically managing risks.
“We will take those lessons and apply them across the board,” Salazar said in an interview.
Shell paused its hunt for oil after last year’s high-profile mishaps, including the Dec. 31 grounding of one of its rigs on an Alaskan island. But the company hopes to resume the work in 2014, using two floating drilling units.
ConocoPhillips, meanwhile, is working with regulators to finalize its plans to use a jack-up rig to drill up to two wells in 2014 at its Devil’s Paw prospect in the Chukchi Sea, about 80 miles off the coast of Alaska.
Spokeswoman Natalie Lowman said ConocoPhillips is reviewing the Interior’s probe of Shell’s 2012 Arctic drilling program and can’t say yet how it might affect ConocoPhillips’ plans.
The company is revising a drilling blueprint for the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management and an oil spill response plan for the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement.
The company must secure the agencies’ approval of those plans before it can start any Arctic operations.
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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A head-cut image of Alfred Donovan (now deceased) appears courtesy of The Wall Street Journal.
