A satellite image of a depression in the Gulf of Mexico where wells account for a third of US oil
By David Litterick, in New York
Last Updated: 12:31am BST 16/08/2007
Oil prices jumped more than a dollar yesterday as the hurricane season began in earnest, with two tropical storms heading for deep-water oil platforms in the Gulf of Mexico.
Royal Dutch Shell said it was shutting down a well that produces 5m cubic feet of gas a day, and evacuating non-essential personnel from facilities on the Texas coast.
Other energy companies operating in the Gulf, which accounts for around a third of US domestic oil and gas production, said they were monitoring the situation.
Tropical storm Erin was named in the Caribbean and is expected to hit the coast of Texas later this week. It is not expected to grow to hurricane strength and damage is likely to be minimal.
However, oil traders were paying more attention to tropical storm Dean, which has formed in the mid-Atlantic and could enter the Gulf as a Category Three hurricane over the weekend.
The potential threat, coupled with a fall in US oil and gas inventories, sent US crude $1.35 higher to $73.63 a barrel in early trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange with similar gains seen for Brent crude in London.
Oil prices had been on the way down in recent days as oil cartel Opec warned that the reduced growth forecasts for the world economy as a result of the sub-prime lending crisis and ongoing credit crunch could hit oil consumption.
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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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