Shell Oil Co. plans to modernize and expand its Westhollow Technology Center in Houston and rename it Shell Technology Center-Americas.
June 27th, 2008:
Shell Oil to expand and rename Westhollow facility
So You Think Oils Expensive Now?
Moreover, there are a number of plausible scenariostaken from todays headlinesthat could greatly impact world oil prices and take an even greater toll on US consumers. We doubt that these risks are fully priced into the market.
Kazakh superfield delayed yet again
Of the 15 former Soviet republics, Kazakhstan is sitting on the sole "superfield" discovered in the last three decades. With proven reserves of 35 billion barrels, Kazakhstan potentially contains the world's third largest reserves of oil, after Saudi Arabia and Iraq.
Shell leases Korea National Oil tank for Basra Light
Shell has leased storage in South Korea from Korea National Oil Corp (KNOC) for Iraq's Basra Light crude, trade sources said on Friday, a rare move that could help the major bypass uncertainties at the loading port.
SEC ordered to use emergency powers to immediately curb excessive market speculation
SEC Proposes Change In Oil, Gas Reporting: The SEC plan would allow oil and gas companies to include previously excluded sources of oil, such as tar sands, and disclose "probable and possible" reserves, not just those proven to exist.
Global Oil-Supply Worries Fuel Debate in Saudi Arabia
With oil prices having doubled over the past year, political leaders, Wall Street investors, commuters, airlines and car makers are all scrambling to divine where prices will head next.
Fuels on the Hill
Capitol Hill has jumped on the blame-the-speculators bandwagon.
global market panic as oil price hits record
Global stock markets tumbled as a weak dollar pushed the oil price over $140 a barrel for the first time in London and New York.
“…batten down the hatches for a worldwide financial storm”
Barclays Capital has advised clients to batten down the hatches for a worldwide financial storm, warning that the US Federal Reserve has allowed the inflation genie out of the bottle and let its credibility fall "below zero".
Oil trading: the oil futures loophole
...trying to save capitalism from its excesses.
TNK-BP dispute triggered by Iraq oil project row
A dispute over an oil project in Iraq was the final straw that triggered a public falling out over control of TNK-BP, according to BP's partners in the Russian joint venture.
Need to Know: Natural Resources
Royal Dutch Shell, the Anglo-Dutch oil and gas group, is planning to construct a 3.5 million tonne floating liquefied natural gas facility. Three consortiums comprising engineering and shipyard contractors are vying for the contract.
Gloomy outlook for global economy sparks sharp fall
...comments from Opec that oil could reach $170 a barrel this summer also hit stocks.
Exclusive: No ice at the North Pole
It seems unthinkable, but for the first time in human history, ice is on course to disappear entirely from the North Pole this year.
The slippery business of oil
In late May, President Umaru YarAdua told his government to recoup $1.9 billion from Exxon Mobil and Royal Dutch Shell in revenue and taxes on offshore projects. The government accuses oil companies of reaping excessive profits and benefiting unfairly from agreements made with long-departed military regimes.

















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.

























































