DEEP WATER SLENDER WELLS, LTD. v. SHELL OIL COMPANY
Civil Action H-12-1166.
Deep Water Slender Wells, Ltd., et al., Plaintiffs, v. Shell Oil Company, et al., Defendants.
United States District Court, S.D. Texas.
November 22, 2013.
Opinion on Summary Judgment
LYNN N. HUGHES, District Judge.
1. Introduction.
Beginning in 1998, James G. Wood told Shell Oil Company about designs to use smaller-diameter equipment for drilling in deep water. In 2004, the United States Patent Office awarded Peter Azancot a patent on drilling a small-bore well in deep water. Wood asserts that he is the sole inventor of the technology in Azancot’s patent. Shell responds that both Wood’s delay in bringing this claim and having brought other suits against Shell preclude his claim for inventorship. Shell will prevail.
A head-cut image of Alfred Donovan (now deceased) appears courtesy of The Wall Street Journal.
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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