THE WALL STREET JOURNAL ONLINE
September 14, 2006 5:18 p.m.
Crude-oil futures tumbled for the eighth time in the past nine sessions on the New York Mercantile Exchange, settling at nearly $63 a barrel, as supply concerns continued to ebb. Here is Thursday’s roundup of oil and energy news.
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ANADARKO SHEDS CANADA UNIT: Anadarko Petroleum Corp., which is seeking to pay down debt after a major acquisition spree, agreed to sell its Anadarko Canada Corp. unit to Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. for $4.1 billion. Anadarko put the unit up for sale in June to help pay down debt from its $21 billion acquisition of Kerr-McGee and Western Gas Resources.
•Refiner Partly Blamed for Philippines Spill: The Philippines’ largest oil refiner, Petron Corp., was partly responsible for the sinking of a tanker that caused a major oil spill last month because it overloaded the vessel, a special investigation board said.
•West Worries Over Gulf of Guinea: Western analysts are nervous about security in Africa’s Gulf of Guinea, a region that fills about 16% of U.S. energy needs, Reuters reports.
•Nuke-Plant Contractor Accused of Coverup: A contractor at FirstEnergy Corp.’s Beaver Valley nuclear power plant failed to do required reviews on a repair project and tried to cover it up, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission says.
•Qatar Plans Spending Spree: Qatar, flush with oil-and-gas cash, plans to put its billions to work with international acquisitions, the Financial Times reports.
•GeoResources in Two Small Deals: Petroleum producer GeoResources Inc. on Thursday said it has agreed to buy two private oil and gas companies with assets in the Rocky Mountains and Gulf Coast for about $78 million.
•Oil Rout Overdone: It seems a little too early to call oil’s recent collapse the start of a bear market in crude, writes Marc Gerstein, director of investment research at Reuters.com.
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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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