Abbott, a 30-year industry veteran, has been running about 30 refineries and petrochemical plants at the company, The Hague-based Shell said today in a statement. He will leave his current post of executive vice president for manufacturing on Oct. 1 and will also join Shell’s executive committee.
Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSA), Europe’s largest oil company, named John Abbott as refining director to succeed Ben van Beurden, who will become chief executive officer in January.
Abbott, a 30-year industry veteran, has been running about 30 refineries and petrochemical plants at the company, The Hague-based Shell said today in a statement. He will leave his current post of executive vice president for manufacturing on Oct. 1 and will also join Shell’s executive committee.
Abbott, a British national, joined the company in 1981 after graduating from Birmingham University in central England. He had several jobs running refineries, petrochemical plants and heavy-crude production projects from North America to Asia.
In Canada, Abbott supervised Shell’s oil-sands ventures, facing environmental protests, and managed an associated carbon-capture and storage project. He has been in charge of the company’s investment program to raise heavy-oil output by 60 percent in the decade to 2020 by upgrading assets in North America.
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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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A head-cut image of Alfred Donovan (now deceased) appears courtesy of The Wall Street Journal.
