THE WALL STREET JOURNAL ONLINE
July 26, 2006 5:53 p.m.
Crude-oil futures edged higher and closed at nearly $74 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange after the U.S. Energy Department reported a bigger-than-expected rise in gasoline inventories last week. Here is Wednesday’s roundup of energy-related news:
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CONOCOPHILLIPS PROFIT BOOMS: ConocoPhillips said its second-quarter profit surged 65% from a year ago, bolstered by continued high oil prices, big refining margins, and the recent acquisition of Burlington Resources, a top natural-gas producer. The Houston energy giant is the first of the top three U.S. oil and gas companies to report earnings, and its results foretell another fat quarter for Big Oil, at a time when Americans continue to smart from retail gasoline prices that top $3 a gallon in many places. (See a state-by-state breakdown of U.S. gas prices, and read anecdotes from gas stations.)
•No Relief in Sight: And those prices are likely to stay at more than $3 a gallon for the rest of the summer, the U.S. Energy Information Administration said today.
•Another Nigerian Attack: The outlook for Nigeria’s crude oil output deteriorated further after a flowstation owned by a unit of Eni SpA (E) was attacked overnight, MarketWatch reports.
•Energen Profit Jumps: Energy holding company Energen said its second-quarter profit rose 32% from a year ago.
•Drilling Debate Begins: The Senate appears headed toward passage of a bill opening an 8.3 million acre federal tract in the Gulf of Mexico to oil and gas exploration.
•Harvest’s Mystery Deal: Harvest Energy Trust agreed to pay $440M for a privately held oil and gas producer in Western Canada, CBC reports. Mysteriously, the seller was not named.
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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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