…many energy companies are scaling back and in some cases even giving up. Shell Oil, which leased 600,000 acres for exploration and development, announced in September it was leaving the state because production from its initial wells didn’t meet its target.
By STEVE EVERLY: The Kansas City Star: October 22
The bloom is off those once rosy predictions for Kansas oil production.
Optimistic energy companies invested more than $1 billion in the state over the last couple of years, hoping that new methods and technology would help them recover gushers of oil and natural gas from underground rock.
But that’s turning out to be more difficult than expected. Production, though ample from some wells, has been less overall than hoped.
As a result, many energy companies are scaling back and in some cases even giving up.
Shell Oil, which leased 600,000 acres for exploration and development, announced in September it was leaving the state because production from its initial wells didn’t meet its target.
The oil companies aren’t providing many details, for competitive reasons. Scott Scheffler, a spokesman for Shell, said the company decided in May to change its pace in the state, and it suspended its drilling in June. A review of the 43 exploratory wells then led to the decision to sell its assets in the state and use the company’s resources elsewhere.
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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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