Tuesday 16 February 2016
London-listed Royal Dutch Shell has overtaken California-based Chevron to become the world’s second biggest non-state owned oil company.
The move comes after Shell completed the acquisition of BG Group which nudges its value to £133bn – now in excess of Chevron £112bn market capitalisation.
The £36bn acquisition of BG group by the Anglo dutch company was completed on February 15 having first been mooted in April 2015.
The deal – the industry’s biggest this decade – comes against a backdrop of falling oil prices.
Since Shell first tabled its bid in April last year the price of brent crude oil has fallen 42%, however the fact that the deal gives Shell access to BG’s liquid natural gas reserves was seen by many as more of reason for the deal to go ahead in the current environment.
BG’s shares were made came to the fore in the 1980s with the ‘Tell Sid’ ads rise yesterday’s sale means that hundreds of thousands of people who purchased British Gas shares in the 1986 are in line for a signifcant windfall.
The deal also means that Shell has overtaken HSBC to become the biggest FTSE 100 listed company
Texas-based Exxon Mobil remains the world’s most valuable oil company with a market value of £234bn – nearly twice the size of Shell.
The fortunes of Shell are closely watched by many UK investors since its dividends comprise around £1 in every £7 paid out to UK pension funds.
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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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