Crude-oil prices rose, breaking a three-day losing streak, after a tanker-tracker report showed OPEC cut more production than previously estimated. Crude on the New York Mercantile Exchange rose 30 cents to $62.49. Gasoline was also higher, but heating oil and natural gas fell. Here is Thursday’s roundup of oil and energy news:
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ROYALTY LOOPHOLE: House Democrats urged Congress to punish oil firms that refuse to renegotiate faulty government drilling leases that enable the companies to escape paying billions in oil and gas royalties. The lawmakers are pushing to prohibit oil firms from obtaining leases in new offshore areas new terms are reached on exploration contracts signed in 1998 and 1999.
• Smugglers Killed: Eight smugglers in Iraq burned to death when a fire broke out on an oil pipeline as they were stealing from it, said a police officer from Iraq’s northern oil city of Kirkuk.
• Alaskan Pipeline: Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin expressed optimism over talks with oil firms over the proposed Alaska Gas Pipeline. The state wants to bring its North Slope gas reserves to market, with a pipeline from Alaska to the U.S. seen as a way of lessening dependence on foreign energy and providing royalties to Alaska.
• Attack in Nigeria: Gunmen attacked a southern Nigerian oil installation belonging to a subsidiary of Italy’s Eni SpA early Thursday, killing one person and taking three Italians hostage, officials said.
• Chavez Delivers Oil: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, a harsh critic of President Bush, brought a program deliver discounted heating oil to Baltimore, where 15,000 homes are expected to receive his aid.
• Lawyers Wanted: International oil companies are looking to lawyers to fight their battles against a growing trend of resource nationalism as high prices and the lack of other opportunities raise the stakes.
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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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