Oil prices continue to rise in Asian trade
Mar 02, 2006
SINGAPORE (AFX) – Oil prices rose in Asian trading hours as the market ignored healthy US crude and gasoline stockpiles to focus on geopolitical worries, about Nigeria in particular, dealers said.
At 12.50 pm (0450 GMT) here, New York's main contract, light sweet crude for delivery in April, was up 0.18 usd at 62.15 usd from its close of 61.97 usd in the US overnight.
“The concern right now is Nigeria, with the Chevron incident,” said Tony Nunan a Tokyo-based energy analyst with Mitsubishi Corp.
Chevron said yesterday it had shut down one of its oil facilities in the Niger Delta, costing Nigeria 13,000 barrels per day (bpd) in lost output.
Chevron spokesman Michael Barrett said the firm had shut the Makaraba flow station after an unexplained leak in a crude oil pipeline connecting the plant to the Escravos export platform caused a minor spill.
Africa's biggest oil producer has been rocked by attacks on oil installations run by Western majors. Shell has suspended production in the delta region, cutting output by 455,000 bpd or 20 pct.
Separatist guerrillas yesterday released six of nine foreign oilmen they were holding captive, but warned that they would step up attacks aimed at shutting down Nigeria's oil industry.

















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.

























































