The Independent: Aidan Heavey: Out of Africa – Ireland’s oil baron has come a long way from County Kildare
“it is clear that the scandal has highlighted accounting risk in the oil industry, and discrepancies between different companies’ accounting methods”
The Tullow boss was ‘a crap accountant’, he tells Tim Webb. But after pulling off two audacious deals, he has found his forte as an oilman
Posted 9 August 2004
Aidan Heavey admits that, as an Irish oilman travelling in places such as Gambia, he attracts his fair share of attention from the locals. “It can be a surprise,” the chief executive of the fast-growing Dublin- and London-listed Tullow Oil says. In an industry dominated by engineers and geologists, there also aren’t many former accountants who run oil companies.
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.
