ABC News quoted an unnamed senior Pentagon official as saying there is an "increasing likelihood" that Israel will strike Iran's nuclear facilities before the end of the year. Such an attack could prompt Iran to retaliate, potentially disrupting oil supplies in the strategically vital Persian Gulf.
July 1st, 2008:
Oil ends at new record near $141 on supply worries
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johndonovan.website, and shellnews.net,
are owned by John Donovan. There is also a Wikipedia segment.
Japan’s Showa Shell to build solar cell plant – report
Showa Shell Sekiyu KK plans to build one of the world's biggest solar panel plants at a cost of more than 100 billion yen ($940 million), Wednesday's online edition of Nihon Keizai Shimbun newspaper reported.
Iraq sues Chevron over kickbacks
The Iraqi government sued dozens of companies, including oil giant Chevron, for more than $10 billion (5 billion pounds) on Monday, saying they paid kickbacks to former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's government under the U.N. oil-for-food program.
Wanted: Rooms for rent, must float
ExxonMobil Canada has gone on a search for floating living accommodations to hitch up to its Thebaud production platform at the Sable natural gas project.
Appetite for Arctic oil rises in line with crude prices
The appetite for Arctic oil has surged in line with rocketing crude prices but environmental concerns and a diplomatic stalemate stand in the way of exploration, experts say.
Shell Sells Stake in South Africa’s Biggest Refinery
Royal Dutch Shell Plc, which owns half of South Africa's biggest refinery, sold 25 percent of its local refining unit to Thebe Investment Corp. to meet government requirements for ownership by black investors.
Militants kill 4 soldiers, 2 civilians in Bonny – claim one was beheaded (Shell has denied that any such attack occurred)
A civilian who said to be on a visit to a naval relative was also killed, while another civilian was beheaded by the gunmen at Oloma where the Dutch oil giant, Shell Petroleum Development Company has an oil flow station.
Iraq Oil Ministry Opens Door to Foreign Companies
Iraq has the fourth largest known reserves of oil -- after Saudi Arabia, Iran and Canada.
Oil gives up record as dollar rebounds
The data provided more proof that high oil prices are taking a toll on consumption in the world's largest market for crude.
Kuwait plans for Iranian oil blockade
Saad al-Shuwaib, chief executive of Kuwait Petroleum Corporation, the state oil company, told the Kuwait news agency that precautionary plans to export Kuwaiti crude if the Strait of Hormuz was closed were in place, but not yet finalised.
Turkish group looks south
A partnership with Shell to rebuild Iraq's gas sector assures a role for TPAO in Iraq. "Shell is working on a master plan for the entire Iraqi gas sector. When this is approved, we're ready to start work."
Baghdad opens door to foreign developers
Jeroen van der Veer, chief executive of Royal Dutch Shell, said he hoped the agreements could be signed in "a matter of weeks".
Energy chiefs absolve oil speculators
Jeroen van der Veer, chief executive of Royal Dutch Shell, Europes biggest international, integrated energy group, said on Monday: We dont think that the financial markets are leading the speculation. Probably they follow what other people fear as long-term fundamentals.
Moscow axes work visas for TNK-BP
BPs grip on its Russian oil joint venture was slipping on Monday after authorities in Moscow refused work permits to many of the companys foreign executives in a ruling that could see all of them forced out of the country by the end of the month.
Promise of Biofuel Clouded by Weather Risks
The floods have helped send the price of ethanol up 19 percent in a month. They appear to have had little effect on the price of gasoline at the pump, as ethanol represents only about 6 percent of the nations transport fuel today.
Saudi Oil Project Brings Skepticism to the Surface
...this remote patch of desert could hold the key to the soaring price of gasoline around the world.
Lorry drivers protest: New oil price record fuels hauliers’ anger
The BP chief, Tony Hayward, said it was a "myth" that financial investors buying oil futures were behind the four-year rally.
Barclays warns of a financial storm as Federal Reserve’s credibility crumbles
The world has changed all of a sudden.
UK house prices in grip of slump that experts expect to deepen
Figures due on Tuesday from the Nationwide, the countrys biggest building society, are likely to confirm that the housing down turn has turned into a full-blown slump
The central bankers’ bank renews fear of second depression
The central bankers' bank renews fear of second depression, writes Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
Supplies blamed for high oil prices
Shell's chief executive, Jeroen van der Veer, said: "We don't think that the financial markets are leading the speculation, Probably they follow what other people fear as long-term fundamentals."
BP staff thrown out by Moscow but Russia refined enough for Sibir Energy
Yesterday, Moscow refused work permits for about 75 staff. BP described the ruling as utterly disgraceful.
Iraq opens oilfields to international deals
But the long-awaited news was soured by the revelation that five big Western oil companies had refused to sign smaller, short-term service contracts to renovate the countrys dilapidated oil infrastructure unless they were guaranteed a slice of the massive oil-pumping deal.
Oiling Iraq’s Revival
...some Iraqi nationalists as well as anti-war activists will be strengthened in their delusion that the real reason for the 2003 invasion was the US wish to gain control of Iraqi oil.
Iraq fails to ink deals with global oil majors
"We did not finalise any agreement with them because they refused to offer consultancy based on fees as they wanted a share of the oil,"...
BP chief blames states, not speculators, for record oil prices
The likes of BP, Shell, and ExxonMobil are keen to point out the increasing difficulty they have in accessing new reserves, thanks to the hardening stance of state-owned oil companies which are unconvinced that they need the help of private groups to extract the resource.
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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