KATHERINE HOURELD
LAGOS, Nigeria – Royal Dutch Shell PLC has shut off 180,000 barrels of daily crude-oil production in Nigeria because of an unexplained pipeline leak, a company spokesman said Tuesday.
The shutdown of the pipeline in the eastern Niger Delta brings the company’s total daily production losses in Nigeria to more than 650,000 barrels a day – two-thirds of which is due to violence in the region.
It was not immediately known what caused the pipeline leak, which was first noticed Friday, a Shell spokesman said. He declined to be named because he is not authorized to speak to the media about the matter.
Production difficulties in Nigeria, Iraq and the Gulf of Mexico have unsettled oil markets at a time of rising global demand and a limited supply cushion.
On Tuesday, light sweet crude futures for September delivery traded at $74 a barrel, down $1.05 on the New York Mercantile Exchange.
Shell officials shut down the pipeline in Nembe Creek, in southeastern Rivers State, over the weekend. Authorities are trying to determine what caused the leak, but residents in the region were preventing them from getting to the site to investigate.
The spokesman said that until preliminary investigations were complete it was impossible to say when the problem could be repaired.
Nigeria’s volatile Niger Delta region has been the seen of frequent disputes between oil companies and communities who have for years demanded a greater share of the wealth of Africa’s largest crude producer.
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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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