Merger and acquisition activity in the Canadian oil patch gathered pace in the second quarter of 2006, pushing the first half tally to C$13.9 billion, beating the same period of 2005 by C$4.1 billion, according to Sayer Energy Advisors.
The April-June period posted five deals valued at C$1 billion or more, led by Penn West Energy Trust’s C$3.7 billion takeover of Petrofund Energy Trust.
Those five transactions accounted for just over two-thirds of the first half value.
Trust sector 57% of total
Sayer estimated that the trust sector represented transaction value of C$7.8 billion or 57 percent of the total.
In addition, there were two amalgamations of trusts — Sequoia/Daylight and Advantage/Ketch — which were not reflected in the value tally.
Shell Canada’s C$2.5 billion buyout of BlackRock Ventures was the only deal outside the trust sector that exceeded the billion-dollar mark.
Sayer said acquisition prices, based on proven plus probable reserves, averaged C$20.34 per barrel of oil equivalent for the first six months, up 33 percent from a year earlier.
Topping that list was the C$87.69 per boe paid by Canadian Oil Sands Trust for the Arctic gas assets of Canada Southern Petroleum.
—Gary Park
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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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