Published: October 23 2006 03:00 | Last updated: October 23 2006 03:00
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*BP reports third-quarter figures ahead of rival Royal Dutch Shell later this week, with underlying earningsfor both likely to be down from the second quarter. The price of oil fell sharplyduring the three-month period and refining margins were squeezed, puttingpressure on both the upstream and downstream sides of BP and Shell, which reports on Thursday.
However, the figures for BP are generally expected to be worse than those for Shell. BP’s third-quarter earnings will be lower than in the same period of last year, according to Fadel Gheit, of Oppenheimer in New York, while Shell’s could be higher.
There are two main reasons for this. First, the different mix of the businesses: Shell is relatively stronger in marketingproducts and so is lessinfluenced by changes inthe oil price. Second, thereis the effect of the partial shutdown of production at BP’s Prudhoe Bay field in Alaska following the discovery of an oil leak from acorroded pipe. That cost BP production from August, roughly halfway throughthe quarter. Earlier this month, BP said it thoughtits total production in the third quarter had beenlower than in the thirdquarter of 2005.
However, Shell has also been suffering production problems, with output from its Nigerian fields disrupted by insurgent attacks.
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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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