28 May 2013
VENTURES AFRICA – Oil and gas giant, Royal Dutch Shell (Shell), is set to prepare a newly-repaired oilrig to start drilling for the first time off the coast of Benin and Gabon, Dow Jones Newswires reported late on Monday.
According to the newswire, the company has also targeted South Africa’s northwestern coast to start drilling in 2014.
It is understood this is part of Shell’s plan to reappear in West Africa and other parts of Africa after its initial plan to establish a base in the East African coast was botched.
Shell withdrew from discussions aimed at acquiring a stake of Anadarko Petroleum Corporation’s gas findings off the coast of Mozambique.
The energy company gave the asking price as the reason for its withdrawal from these talks, saying the price had skyrocketed suddenly.
In recent years, western oil majors have come under cumulative pressure to look for other oil and gas sources to stock up waning reserves.
Oil and gas companies have in the past more often than not made up for dwindling stocks by buying oil and gas minors that had new findings.
However, according to Fox Business News, this choice is fast-vanishing as attention from cash-flush Asian countries makes assets that original oil and gas companies want to acquire more expensive.
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands—Royal Dutch Shell PLC is returning its exploration focus to the West African heartlands after a second attempt to gain a foothold in massive new gas discoveries off Africa’s East Coast failed.
The Anglo-Dutch energy company has pulled back from talks with Anadarko Petroleum Corp…
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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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