Thu Nov 8, 2007 6:44 PM GMT
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By Chris Baltimore
WASHINGTON, Nov 8 (Reuters) – The U.S. Energy Department on Thursday awarded contracts to units of Shell Oil
Flows of oil will start in January at a rate of about 70,000 barrels per day and last about six months, the department said.
The department pressed ahead with its plan over objections of some Democrats in the U.S. Senate who want the royalty oil shipments delayed until oil prices fall below their recent highs near $100 a barrel.
The DOE has said that the royalty oil shipments represent only a fraction of the 21 million barrels per day used by U.S. consumers, and has rejected calls to delay the fill program.
The oil, which oil companies pay as royalties for the right to drill on federal land in lieu of cash payments, will be delivered to two SPR sites – West Hackberry in Louisiana and Bryan Mound in Texas.
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York, a 2008 presidential candidate, has even called for the department to tap the government’s emergency crude oil and heating oil reserves to boost supplies and lower prices.
The White House has repeatedly said it will not use the reserve as a price lever and will hold it in reserve for supply disruptions like the hurricanes that plowed into the Gulf Coast oil patch in 2005.
Separately, the DOE said it had no immediate plans to issue bids to buy back 11 million barrels of oil it sold to U.S. refiners after the hurricanes.
Former President Bill Clinton was criticized for ordering the release of up to 30 million barrels from the crude oil reserve in September 2000 to boost available heating fuel supplies heading into the winter.
Republicans accused him of tapping the oil reserve just six weeks before that year’s November election to help then-Vice President Al Gore’s presidential campaign.
The Strategic Petroleum Reserve, created by Congress after the 1973-1974 Arab oil embargo, now holds 695 million barrels of crude at four underground storage sites in Texas and Louisiana.
The 2 million-barrel heating oil reserve is located in the Northeast, where about one-third of the households use the fuel as their main heating source. (Reporting by Chris Baltimore; additional reporting by Tom Doggett; editing by Jim Marshall)
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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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A head-cut image of Alfred Donovan (now deceased) appears courtesy of The Wall Street Journal.
