Bloomberg News
July 24, 2007
Shares of Noble Corp. and other oil and gas drillers rose after news broke of the Transocean and GlobalSantaFe deal, raising speculation that the merger will spur more takeovers in the industry.
Noble, based near Houston, climbed $3.82 to close at $106.28 on the New York Stock Exchange. Dallas-based Ensco International Inc. closed at $65.90, up $2.64, and Diamond Offshore Drilling Inc. of Houston jumped $4.64 to $113.04. “The drillers have had a tremendous boom the last several quarters,” said Scott Keller, president of New York-based Dealanalytics.com, which provides data to institutional investors. “Behemoths like Transocean are trying to fill in niches in their portfolios.”
An index of drilling companies that includes Noble and Ensco rose as much as 4.7 per cent, the biggest gain in 13 months. The gain by Noble boosted the company’s market value by more than $450-million (U.S.) in one morning.
Companies are seeking bigger fleets to capture rising rig rents from oil companies including Exxon Mobil Corp. and Royal Dutch Shell PLC, analysts said. Oil companies are paying more than $500,000 a day to rent drillships and floating rigs that can reach petroleum reserves five miles beneath the ocean floor.
The five-member Standard & Poor’s 500 Oil & Gas Drilling Index jumped 39 per cent in the past six months, the second-best performer among energy industry groups in the broader index. Oil field-services companies were the only energy group to do better, posting a 45-per-cent increase during that period.
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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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