Crude-oil prices fell below $63 a barrel, while natural-gas futures dropped more than 7% with traders concerned about the potential for U.S. energy supplies to outpace demand. Here is Monday’s roundup of oil and energy news:
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CHINA AND OPEC: China wants to negotiate directly with the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries to secure oil supply and an equitable share of the oil market, according to the Associated Press. “Only through this can we maintain security and stability of our oil imports,” Zhai Jun, China’s assistant minister of foreign affairs, said in a speech to the Arab Strategy Forum in Dubai. Soaring demand for oil in rapidly industrializing China has been blamed as one of the chief causes for oil prices that have spiraled higher over the past two years.
• Norway Warning: Norway should step up exploration if it is to continue as a significant oil exporter, according to national oil industry association report. “We have no time to lose,” it said. “Exploration activity must be intensified and its results must be improved.”
• Oil Curse: A World Bank economist said Angola needs to use more of its oil revenues in much-needed infrastructure or it could end up cursed by its natural resources.
• Alaskan Drilling: President Bush is deciding whether to lift a 17-year moratorium on drilling in southwest Alaskan waters. The area has vast deposits of natural gas and could greatly expand domestic supplied of fossil fuel.
Iraq Instability: A former top U.N. adviser warned that a sectarian split in Iraq would create an unstable oil industry and harm the sector.
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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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