• Shares of Exxon Mobil, the world’s biggest corporation, had their largest annual increase since 1980 as the company boosted oil production and crude prices rose to an all- time high.
• Royal Dutch Shell will cut its proven oil and gas reserves by more than 4pc when it gives up half its stake in Russia’s Sakhalin-2 venture, analysts said.
• Gazprom, Russia’s natural-gas export monopoly, is continuing talks with Belarus to avoid a Jan. 1 cutoff that could curb deliveries to Europe.
• Empyrean Energy, a UK-based oil and gas explorer with projects in the US and Germany, said it made a net loss in the six months through Sept. 30 on rising administrative costs.
• Rosneft is in talks with Royal Dutch Shell, ConocoPhillips and three other non-Russian companies on developing a field in the Black Sea, Interfax said, citing an unidentified person familiar with the talks.
• Centurion Energy International, the Canadian oil company that’s being acquired by a United Emirates-based energy company, announced the termination of plans by Royal Dutch Shell to help it explore for natural gas in Egypt’s Nile Delta.
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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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