By Upstream staff
The US Interior Department said today it had sold almost 8.6 million barrels of crude oil the government collects from energy companies as royalties for drilling in federal offshore waters.
The crude should arrive in time to boost available US heating oil supplies this winter and may also help offset some of the crude that will be lost after BP shut down part of its giant Prudhoe Bay oil field in Alaska for pipeline repairs.
The oil, which will be delivered to seven energy companies at an average rate of 47,000 barrels per day over a six-month period beginning in October, will be processed into more than 350 million gallons of gasoline, diesel fuel, heating oil, jet fuel and other petroleum products, the department said.
The so-called royalty-in-kind oil was sold to ExxonMobil, Chevron, Shell Oil, ConocoPhillips, Marathon Petroleum, Citadel Energy Products and Plains Marketing, Reuters reported/
The oil will come from a government programme that allows energy companies to forgo paying cash royalties on the crude they drill on federal leases mostly in the Gulf of Mexico, and instead turn over a portion of oil they find as in-kind royalty payments.
The oil is then sold competitively in the open market.
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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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