By Collin Eaton: 29 Sept 2015
HOUSTON — Royal Dutch Shell’s oil unit in Malaysia said it will cut 1,300 jobs, or about 20 percent of its Malaysian workforce, over the next two years as it restructures itself.
Shell Malaysia said Tuesday it is trying to become a more efficient company but gave few details beyond disclosing the coming staff reductions. It said it has made “adjustments” to its upstream portfolio but didn’t elaborate.
“Shell Malaysia is preparing itself to be more competitive in a low oil price environment,” Shell Malaysia Chairman Iain Lo said in a written statement. “Continuing business as usual is not sustainable. We are taking difficult, but necessary action.”
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Shell began pumping oil from its first deep-water platform off the coast of Malaysia late last year, producing about a quarter of the Southeast Asian country’s oil output. Shell operates the Gumusut-Kakap platform but shares ownership with ConocoPhillips and Petronas.
For the past six years, Shell has spent about $100 million annually looking for oil. It said earlier this month it has put together massive pieces of a tension leg platform slated to drill off the coast of Malaysia, its second project there, and produce up to 60,000 barrels of oil equivalent a day.
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Shell’s job cuts come as the broader oil industry has cut more than 200,000 jobs, according to energy recruiter Swift Worldwide Resources and Houston-based consultant Graves & Co. Graves estimates oil exploration firms have cut 30,559 jobs, or about 15 percent of the industry’s total, while oil field service firms have cut 99,656 jobs, nearly half of the cuts.
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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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