EXTRACT: Producers in Nigeria, led by Royal Dutch Shell Plc, have lost about one-third of the country’s capacity to militant attacks on pipelines and platforms. “Shell warns that it might be possible to restart some production before next April’s presidential election,” White said. “Not precisely encouraging news.”
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006/8/9
By Will Kennedy SINGAPORE, Bloomberg
Brent oil, the price marker for two-thirds of the world’s crude, may rise to a record US$79.80 a barrel this week as BP’s Alaskan shutdown compounds global supply problems, Societe Generale said.
BP Plc, which is shutting down the U.S.’s largest oil field at Prudhoe Bay to fix corroded pipelines, could take at least weeks to restart 400,000 barrels a day of lost production, Societe Generale, France’s second-largest bank, said.
The Alaska closure, which may cause gasoline shortages in California, adds to the impact of supply cutbacks in Nigeria and refining bottlenecks worldwide, Societe Generale said yesterday. Brent oil has gained 32 percent this year in London and rose to a record US$78.64 yesterday.
“Oil’s bull run is back,” Deborah White, the Paris-based bank’s energy analyst, said in a note to clients. “Refining capacity constraints have been aggravated by unexpectedly tight supply.”
Brent for September settlement fell as much as 36 cents, or 0.5 percent, to US$77.94 a barrel in electronic trading on the ICE Futures exchange today. The North Sea grade is trading at a premium of US$1.20 to West Texas Intermediate oil futures on the New York Mercantile Exchange.
Brent has outperformed New York crude prices this year because Brent is used to set prices for African crude oil grades. Producers in Nigeria, led by Royal Dutch Shell Plc, have lost about one-third of the country’s capacity to militant attacks on pipelines and platforms.
“Shell warns that it might be possible to restart some production before next April’s presidential election,” White said. “Not precisely encouraging news.”
Nigeria produces so-called light, sweet crude oil, prized by refiners for the amount of gasoline it produces and low content of sulfur, a pollutant. Norway, Western Europe’s largest producer and a source of light, sweet crude, isn’t producing as much as expected, White said.
Output has been “severely hampered by labor strikes and maintenance dragging on longer than expected because platforms are showing their age,” Societe Generale’s report said.
A lack of global oil refining capacity has forced companies to delay maintenance, increasing the number of breakdowns, White said. An industry shortage of labor and materials has delayed the completion of new refineries, she said.
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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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