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Associated Press
Posted on Sun, Jan. 21, 2007
HOUSTON – An ambitious repair project has brought back to life the most prolific oil-producing platform in the Gulf of Mexico after it was heavily damaged by Hurricane Katrina.
The 36,500-ton Royal Dutch Shell Mars platform is now producing more oil than pre-Katrina.
“The Mars recovery operation is quite a success story,” said Elmer Danenberger, chief of offshore regulatory programs for the Department of the Interior’s Minerals Management Service.
January 21, 2007
Tony Hayward has a mountain to climb when he takes over but for now he is happy to let Lord Browne take the flak, writes Grant RingshawÂ
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TONY HAYWARD, BPâs chief executive-in-waiting, was keeping a low profile last week. As Lord Browne, the present boss, and John Manzoni, head of refining and marketing, received the equivalent of a public flogging for safety failures at BPâs American refineries, Hayward was apparently on a long-arranged business trip to the United States.
Jan. 29, 2007 issue – Alexander Medvedev is deputy chairman of Gazprom, the huge company at the heart of Russia’s emerging energy empire. Last week he announced that profits rose 43 percent in 2006 to $37.2 billion, even as European leaders were voicing open concern about Russia’s use of oil and gas shipments to pressure small neighbors like Belarus and Ukraine.
Medvedev is among the Gazprom execs preparing to travel to Davos, where “power shifts” to new players like Russia lead the agenda. They’ll try to present Russia as a reliable partner and head off European moves to diversify.
January 21, 2007
(Manila Standard Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge)
Royal Dutch Shell Group, the parent company of Pilipinas Shell Petroleum Corp., has deferred the expansion of its refinery in Tabangao, Batangas province, due to high project cost.
Shell owns and operates a 130,000 barrel-per-day refinery in Batangas. It earlier estimated the planned refinery expansion to cost around $1 billion to $3 billion.
Philippine Shell executives are working hard to sustain Shell’s refining operations in the country despite small margins.
Socialist crusaders would be nowhere without capitalism
SIMON KENNEDY AND RICH MILLER BLOOMBERGNEWS
Sunday, 21 January 2007
Free global markets opened doors for Hugo Chavez and Vladimir Putin, who are now slamming them shut. In reasserting state control over their economies, the leaders of Venezuela and Russia are bucking the very capital flows and expanded markets that buoyed their oil-producing nations in the first place by delivering record energy prices and the strongest global growth in a generation.
By KRISTEN HAYS
Copyright 2007 Houston Chronicle
21, 2007, 12:48AM
Shell’s Mars platform MARS PLATFORM, GULF OF MEXICO — It took patience, ingenuity and untold millions of dollars to heal the wounds Hurricane Katrina inflicted on Royal Dutch Shell’s Mars platform, the most prolific oil-producing platform in the Gulf of Mexico.
But nearly a year and a half after the storm pummeled the 36,500-ton structure with 175-mph winds and 80-foot waves that left dead fish and crumpled steel on its decks, the platform has surpassed its pre-Katrina oil production levels.
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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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MORE DETAILS: After a solicitor acting for Shell threatened to make the litigation "drawn out and difficult" with the intention of draining the resources of a financially weaker opponent, my late father (Alfred Donovan) and I decided to mount a wide-ranging campaign as a counter-measure. We jointly founded the Shell Corporate Conscience Pressure Group, which nearly 15% of Shell UK retailers joined. We regularly conducted ethical surveys involving up to 1500 Shell petrol stations. All responses were opened and authenticated by an independent solicitor who supplied Affidavits confirming the results. In whole page announcements in trade magazines (examples above) we challenged Shell to commission and publish the resuits of independent research asking the same questions and offering respondents GUARANTEED anonymity. Shell never took up the invitation. Instead it asked the UK Advertising Standards Authority to investigate our Shell surveys. No problems were found. The head-cut image of Alfred Donovan appears courtesy of The Wall Street Journal. 
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