Print Date : Sunday, September 23, 2007
TEHRAN (PIN) – Exploration manager of National Iranian Oil Co. (NIOC) Saturday said the country had explored 72 billion barrels of in situ crude oil and 168 trillion cubic feet of gas in place between 1997 and 2006.
Seyyed Mahmud Mohaddes told reporters the huge volume of energy carriers was explored as 16 oilfields and 14 gas fields were spotted.
“Of the explored reserve, totally 15 billion barrels of liquid hydrocarbon, including 12 billion barrels of crude oil, and 1.3 billion barrels of gas condensates, is extractable,” said the official.
“Out of 168 trillion cubic feet of gas in place, 104 trillion cubic feet, 70 percent, is derivable,” he added.
Mohaddes said extractable crude in the country exceeded 96 billion barrels in 1997 while the figure soared to over 137 billion barrels in 2006.
The exploratory affairs manager had already announced that the studies on 40 new sites were finalized and the company would increase its rigs to eight to explore the newly identified areas.
Mohaddes told PIN, “In line with the Fourth Five-Year Development Plan, 40 spots underwent tests and were identified and we are waiting for drilling platforms.
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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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