By Chris Sansone Friday, April 14, 2006 12:19 PM CDT
With the Easter weekend upon us, retail gasoline prices continue to soar across Texas and the nation as crude oil market prices push sharply higher, according to the weekly AAA Texas gas prices survey released Friday.
The survey shows the average retail price of regular, self-serve gasoline in Texas climbed 14 cents this week to $2.73 per gallon. Nationally, the average price climbed 12 cents this week to $2.72 per gallon. read more
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Exxon Made Record Profits in 2005
April 14, 2006— Soaring gas prices are squeezing most Americans at the pump, but at least one man isn't complaining.
Last year, Exxon made the biggest profit of any company ever, $36 billion, and its retiring chairman appears to be reaping the benefits.
Exxon is giving Lee Raymond one of the most generous retirement packages in history, nearly $400 million, including pension, stock options and other perks, such as a $1 million consulting deal, two years of home security, personal security, a car and driver, and use of a corporate jet for professional purposes. read more
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This article relates to a forthcoming story about Shell's use of private investigators and undercover agents.
THE NEW YORK TIMES: F.B.I. Files Link Big Film Names to a Detective
By DAVID M. HALBFINGER and ALLISON HOPE WEINER
Published: April 14, 2006
LOS ANGELES, April 13 — The chairman of Paramount Pictures and a onetime Hollywood superagent had far more direct dealings than they have acknowledged publicly with the celebrity detective at the center of a rapidly expanding wiretapping scandal, according to government evidence. read more
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ThisDayOnline: Ogoni Land: MOSOP, Shell Trade Words
From: John Iwori in Port Harcourt, 04.14.2006
The Movement for Survival of Ogoni People (MOSOP), the apex organization of the Ogoni people in Rivers State is at loggerhead with Anglo Dutch oil giant, Shell over what it called, “reports of Shell’s unabated, provocative responses and disguised plots in support of its regime of destabilization of Ogoni communities”.
In a two page statement made available to THISDAY yesterday in Port Harcourt, MOSOP decried the multinational oil company’s attempt to “immediately work on oil installations in Ogoni”, especially those located in Kegbara Dere and other oil producing communities in Gokana Local Government Area, even as it accused Shell of announcing what it described as a “non-detailed but limited, monetized relief materials for victims of the Kegbara Dere oil spill of March 24th, 2006 as a subtle means of enhancing the plan”. read more
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Energy
• Royal Dutch Shell, Europe's second-largest oil company, said it will open a $8.3m financial and accounting centrein Poland, taking advantage of lower costs for skilled labor.
• Faroe Petroleum, a UK.-based oil and gas company, raised £25m by selling its own shares to fund an expansion into Norwegian exploration and production as well as its existing licences.
• Shares of Empyrean Energy, a UK-based oil and gas explorer, rose by 21pc after the company announced the discovery of “good oil” at its Eagle North-1 well in California. read more
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