Shell is ramping up efforts to sell assets after spending as much as $45 billion on projects and acquisitions in 2013
Vitol Group mulls bid for Royal Dutch Shell’s Australian downstream assets-sources
by Nicel Jane Avellana: 8 Jan 2014
Two sources told Bloomberg that Vitol Group is thinking of making an offer for some of the Australian downstream operations of Royal Dutch Shell Plc. Based in Geneva, Vitol is the biggest independent oil trader in the world.
The people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the details are confidential, said that Vitol is evaluating assets like storage terminals, filling stations and an oil refinery located in Geelong. Two other sources have also told Bloomberg that buyout company TPG Capital and another group headed by Macquarie Group Ltd are thinking of bidding for the assets.
Shell is ramping up efforts to sell assets after spending as much as $45 billion on projects and acquisitions in 2013, the report said.
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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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