September 25 2006
(Fortune) — Royal Dutch Shell (Charts) ranks no. 3 on FORTUNE’s Global 500 this year, with $306.7 billion in revenues, up 14.2% from the previous year.
The Hague, Netherlands-based company was ranked no. 4 on the 2005 list. Its 2005 profits were $25.3 billion, up 39.2% from a year earlier. 2005 was a banner year for most Global 500 companies.
It took $13.7 billion in revenue just to make this year’s list – up from $12.4 billion last year. And profits for the 500 companies jumped 30%. Total revenues for the Global 500 in 2006 add up to $18.9 trillion, a third of the world’s GDP. In the Petroleum Refining industry, profits were up 44% from the previous year.
The world’s biggest companies in the sector are: Exxon Mobil (Charts), ranked no. 1 on the Global 500 with $339.9 billion in revenues; and BP (Charts), ranked no. 4 on the Global 500 with $267.6 billion in revenues; and Chevron Corporation (Charts), ranked no. 6 on the Global 500 with $189.5 billion in revenues; and ConocoPhillips (Charts), ranked no. 10 on the Global 500 with $166.7 billion in revenues; and Total (Charts), ranked no. 12 on the Global 500 with $152.4 billion in revenues.
The Global 500 list is an annual ranking of the world’s largest corporations by revenues.
Next: Full list: 2006 Global 500 at http://money.cnn.com/global500
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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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A head-cut image of Alfred Donovan (now deceased) appears courtesy of The Wall Street Journal.
