By: Stephen Foley in New York, The Independent – United Kingdom
Published: Sep 06, 2006
One of the world’s biggest oil companies held out the prospect that the US could increase its domestic oil reserves by up to a half after unveiling positive results from drilling in the Gulf of Mexico yesterday.
Chevron said it had made significant progress in its exploration of a new oil field deep below the sea-bed, 270 miles south-west of New Orleans.
Industry analysts believe that the field could contain up to 15 billion barrels of oil and may overtake BP’s troubled Prudhoe Bay field in Alaska as the country’s largest.
If Chevron and others can overcome the technical difficulties in extracting oil, it could also significantly lessen US dependence on foreign oil, and reduce political pressure to open up the environmentally sensitive areas of Alaska.
President George Bush has long emphasised the need for the US to reduce its dependence on oil from trouble-spots such as the Middle East, one of the reasons he has supported an end to the ban on further exploration in the Alaskan national wildlife reserve.
But finding new domestic sources of oil has proved difficult for the US oil companies. Chevron’s work on its Jack field in the Gulf of Mexico was amongst the most complicated exploration work undertaken by an oil major, setting several records for test equipment pressure, duration and depth. The experimental well was drilled to 28,000 feet under the sea floor.
“Chevron continues to demonstrate its leading position employing deep-water exploration technology to develop new sup-plies of US crude oil and natural gas with projects such as Jack,” said George Kirkland, executive vice-president, upstream and gas. “Our strong strategic position in the deep-water Gulf of Mexico will continue to be a platform for future growth for years to come.”
The high price of oil has made more complex drilling work economical. Jack and its connected properties – which have been parcelled out among oil majors including UK groups BP and Royal Dutch Shell – could have between 3 billion and 15 billion barrels of recoverable reserves. The US currently has reserves of 29 billion barrels.
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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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