Crude-oil futures fell from a one-month high of more than $58 a barrel, dragged down by a decline in natural-gas prices.
Here is Wednesday’s roundup of oil and energy news:
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EXXON’S MAMMOTH PROFIT: Exxon Mobil posted a 4.3% drop in fourth-quarter net income, though it earned $39.5 billion for the year, the largest profit in U.S. history. It earned $10.25 billion in the quarter, on revenue of $90.03 billion. Revenue rose 1.9% for the year to $377.64 billion, more than the 2005 gross domestic product of Belgium. Major integrated oil companies saw their fourth-quarter earnings drop significantly, as commodity prices were down significantly from the year-ago spikes caused by U.S. Gulf hurricanes. Marathon Oil’s profit fell 15%.
•Key Report to Blame Humans for Global Warming: A much-awaited international report will probably say there is a 90% chance that global warming was caused by human activity, delegates to a Paris climate-change conference said. The report, which must be unanimously approved, is to be released Friday and is considered an authoritative document that could influence government and industrial policy world-wide.
•Shell Profit Rises: Royal Dutch Shell said its quarterly net profit rose 21%. Shell said it expects to have more than replaced its oil and gas reserves in 2006, showing it is rebuilding them after a string of downgrades in 2004 and 2005.
•BP to Sell Refinery: Petroplus Holdings said it plans to buy BP’s Coryton refinery for $1.4 billion, in a deal that will increase its processing capacity by more than half.
•Oil Spill in Vietnam: An oil spill of unknown origin has polluted Vietnam’s China Beach, the name U.S. forces gave to the stretch of seafront between Danang City and Hoi An, AFP reports.
•Exxon Valdez Crude Still Lingers: Lingering crude from the nation’s largest oil spill has weathered only slightly almost 18 years after the tanker Exxon Valdez ran aground and fouled hundreds of miles of Alaska shoreline, a new federal study concludes.
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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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