July 2nd, 2014:
Oil explorers hit rock bottom
Extract from an extensive FT article by Guy Chazan published 2 July 2014New infrastructure players to help UK North Sea in twilight years
Extract from a Reuters article by CLAIRE MILHENCH published 1 July 2014
Why Shell Midstream Partners filed for an initial public offering
Extract from an informative article by Avik Chowdhury published 30 June 2014 by MarketRealist.com
Shell Midstream Partners is a Texas-based company that owns, operates, develops, and acquires pipelines and other midstream assets. Shell has filed a Registration Statement on Form S-1 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (or SEC) related to the proposed IPO of limited partner units of the MLP. RDS has proposed to list the new MLP under the symbol SHLX in the New York Stock Exchange (or NYSE). SPLC, the principal midstream subsidiary of Shell in the U.S. will own SHLX’s general partner, a significant limited partner interest and the incentive distribution rights.
Shell Tackles Climate Change
Extract from an article published 1 July by Financialbuzz.com
Pipeline problems cloud Kashagan oil outlook
Extract from a Geoff Hiscock article published by The Australian on 2 July 2014
A YEAR ago, one of the world’s biggest oil and gas projects, the massive Kashagan field in Kazakhstan’s part of the Caspian Sea, was on the verge of starting production after more than a decade of development and US$40 billion in costs.
Its backers, a combination of international oil companies ExxonMobil, Shell, Total, Eni, Japan’s Inpex, the China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC) and Kazakhstan’s state-owned KazMunaiGas, had every expectation Kashagan would be producing as much as 8 million tonnes of oil this year, equivalent to 170,000 barrels a day.
Legal panel to examine Garda misconduct allegations
By John Donovan
The Irish Times has published an article under the headline “Legal panel to examine Garda misconduct allegations.”
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The Government has decided to hire seven barristers to examine as many as 220 outstanding allegations of Garda misconduct received from members of the public in light of the whistleblowers affair. The move came as the Government approved terms for draft laws to strengthen the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission with new powers, including the right to investigate any alleged criminal conduct by a Garda commissioner. In respect of some 220 allegations about members of the force, Attorney General Máire Whelan will engage a panel of two senior counsel and five junior counsel to scrutinise files and advise whether further action is required. At issue is a deluge of allegations received from the public by Taoiseach Enda Kenny, Ministers, TDs and Government departments.
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.
