Earnings at European oil companies may drop 21 percent in 2009, compared with a 4.7 percent gain last year, according to estimates. Profit at Royal Dutch Shell Plc, Europes largest oil company, may drop 27 percent. The company postponed projects in Canada and Australia as demand for oil declined.
January 4th, 2009:
Profit at Royal Dutch Shell Plc, Europes largest oil company, may drop 27 percent
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Gunmen seize oil services vessel off Nigeria
LAGOS, Jan 4 (Reuters) - Gunmen hijacked a vessel belonging to French oil services group Bourbon (GPBN.PA) off Nigeria's Niger Delta on Sunday as it travelled towards a Royal Dutch Shell (RDSa.L) offshore oilfield, security sources said.
BusinessWeek says Royal Dutch Shell will buy BP
With the rapid collapse of oil prices, and the resulting financial pressures, expect two or more mergers among Big Oil. Our best guess? Royal Dutch Shell (RDSA) buys troubled BP (BP), in part to avoid regulatory issues that could come from merging with a U.S. oil company.
Shell among contenders to develop big Iraqi oilfields
A giant oilfield lying beneath suburban Baghdad is among 11 being studied by Royal Dutch Shell and other Western oil companies, after the Iraqi Government opened them up to foreign companies this week.
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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