EXTRACT: •BP Now No. 2: Adding insult to BP’s injury, Royal Dutch Shell has surpassed BP as Europe’s largest listed oil company.
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL ONLINE
August 9, 2006 5:56 p.m.
Oil futures rose sharply, topping $77 a barrel, on the New York Mercantile Exchange in reaction to a report of a bigger-than-expected draw in U.S. crude and gasoline inventories last week. But futures gave up their gains in late trading. Here’s Wednesday’s roundup of energy-related news:
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PRUDHOE SHUTDOWN ROILS ALASKA: Alaska Gov. Frank Murkowski instituted a state hiring freeze, citing the millions of dollars the state is losing in tax revenue and royalties due to BP’s Prudhoe Bay oil-field shutdown. Mr. Murkowski also said he would ask the attorney general to investigate the “state’s right to hold BP fully accountable for losses to the state.”
•Report: BP Was Warned: Employees warned BP of corrosion in its Prudhoe Bay pipes two years ago, the Financial Times reports.
•Pipe Problems: BP’s problem of corroding pipes is worsening as the nation’s largest oil field ages and more water and less oil is produced during drilling.
•Boon for Environmentalists: Prudhoe corrosion problems could also weaken support for opening up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to exploration.
•BP’s Tanker Spree: Meanwhile, BP is scrambling to bring oil from around the world to replace Prudhoe’s missing supply, reuters reports.
•U.K. Oil Companies Going Green: British oil companies are gearing up to spend hundreds of millions of pounds on biofuel production, the U.K. Herald reports.
•More Nigerian Kidnappings: Militants kidnapped four foreign oil workers off the coast of Nigeria. Kidnappings and other attacks by militants in the region have cut Nigeria’s oil production by 20% this year.
•New Crude in Nigeria: In better Nigerian news, the country’s Minister of Petroleum Resources and the Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation suggested Nigeria may finally find crude oil for the first time in the Chad Basin, a region long ago developed by the country’s neighbors.
•Update on China’s Reserves: China’s government said one of its four new strategic oil-reserve facilities is likely to be ready in October.
•Conoco/Anadarko Project: ConocoPhillips and Anadarko Petroleum announced they had started up a new oilfield on Alaska’s North Slope.
•BP Now No. 2: Adding insult to BP’s injury, Royal Dutch Shell has surpassed BP as Europe’s largest listed oil company.
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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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