THE WALL STREET JOURNAL ONLINE
September 13, 2006 5:22 p.m.
Crude-oil futures broke a seven-session losing streak, finishing at more than $64 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The bounce came despite a government report of a bigger-than-expected build in oil distillates. Here is Wednesday’s roundup of oil and energy news.
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EL NIÑO RETURNS: El Niño conditions have developed and are likely to continue into early 2007, according to U.S. government climate forecasters. The phenomenon, which involves the warmth of waters in the Pacific Ocean, can have an impact on energy demand and crop forecasts, as it affects rainfall in Southeast Asia and winter temperatures in the U.S. and Canada.
•Oil Leases Investigated: An official responsible for Gulf Coast oil leases says he was told in the 1990s to remove a provision concerning royalty payments — an action that is allowing oil companies to avoid billions of dollars in payments — the Interior Department’s inspector general told Congress.
•Pipeline Rules Questioned: Several U.S. lawmakers were skeptical of proposed new rules to prevent corrosion in miles of Alaska North Slope pipelines, questioning why the plan would cover only a small fraction of the thousands of low-pressure oil lines in the country.
•Nigerians on Strike: Oil-workers’ unions launched a three-day strike over worsening security in an oil-rich region on Nigeria as Chevron confirmed the death of one subcontractor and injuries to two others there.
•Japan in Awkward Position: Japan’s long energy relationship with Iran is being tested by Iran’s confrontation with the West over its nuclear program, the Financial Times reports.
•Iran Says Won’t Manipulate Oil: Iran’s oil minister said suggestions his country might use oil as an economic weapon are baseless.
•What Peak Oil?: The world has tapped only 18% of the world’s oil supply, president and CEO of the state-owned Saudi Arabian Oil Co. said, challenging the notion of “peak-oilers” that supplies are petering out. The official said the world has potentially 4.5 trillion barrels in reserves — enough to power the globe at current levels of consumption for another 140 years.
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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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