17 August 2007
The U.S. sold almost $1 billion in oil obtained as royalty-in-kind payments to six refiners.
The 14.2 million barrels of oil, valued by the Interior Department’s Minerals Management Service, were originally sent by Gulf of Mexico oil producers to the federal government in lieu of royalties, or as so-called RIK payments. The bulk of the oil, 12.7 million barrels, will go to two companies under a special small refiner program.
“The Minerals Management Service has made RIK crude oil available to small refiners for decades in an effort to provide them with a consistent oil supply at market prices,” Randall Luthi, the service’s director, said today in an e-mailed statement.
Luthi said many of these small refiners face market challenges in locating and acquiring adequate crude supplies, which places them at a competitive disadvantage to larger refiners.
Gary Williams Energy Co. and Placid Refining Co. made winning bids under the small refiner program to get the oil over one year starting Oct. 1.
Chevron Corp., ExxonMobil Corp., Plains All American Pipeline LP, and Royal Dutch Shell PLC will get 1.5 million barrels over six months, also starting Oct. 1, the service said.
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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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