Bridget Carter: Mergers and Acquisitions Editor, Sydney
Gretchen Friemann: Mergers & Acquisitions Editor, Sydney
There was fresh talk in the market last week that a $3 billion block trade by Shell selling out of Woodside Petroleum could be imminent.
However, there were a number of analysts who dismissed the speculation, which they said would have been largely fuelled by the recent rise in the oil price.
They said a more likely deal was an exit by Spark Infrastructure from the $6bn Duet Group, and it could happen sooner rather than later.
The view is that the first strike against the remuneration report at the Spark annual general meeting this week provided a serious wake-up call to directors and now may appease investors eager for Spark to give up its 11.75 per cent interest in Duet by selling out swiftly.
Shell’s 13.28 per cent stake in Woodside Petroleum is currently worth about $3bn
and some of those sceptical that the trade was about to happen say that it would signal that the price Shell paid for British Gas deal was too high.
Shell is said to have maintained a bullish outlook about the oil price and its $US52bn BG takeover was thought to make sense with the oil price at about $90.
For the last sell-down in Woodside, Shell used investment bank Deutsche.
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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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