US supermajor ConocoPhillips, citing a steep decline in oil and gas prices, said today it will cut 4% of its workforce and sees big writedowns on some of its exploration and production assets. The cut will trim about about 1,300 jobs worldwide.
January 19th, 2009:
ConocoPhillips cuts 4% of its workforce
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Royal Dutch Shell Plc and Vitol Group supplying 16.8 million barrels of oil to U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve
By Nadja Brandt
Jan. 19 (Bloomberg) — Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSA NA): Europes largest oil company and Vitol Group will supply 16.8 million barrels of oil to the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve under a contact award announced by the Energy Department. The department is paying $553 million for 10.7 million barrels. It will also get 6.1 million barrels of oil in lieu of royalty payments for federal drilling leases from Shell and Glencore International AG. Shell shares advanced 42 cents, or 2.3 percent, to 19 euros.
Emissions leak from Royal Dutch Shell Deer Park Refinery
Jan. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Royal Dutch Shell Plc said there was an emissions leak from a crude distillation unit at its Deer Park, Texas, refinery.
Mergers in pipeline as oil industry’s fairytale era ends
A new wave of mergers is likely to sweep through the oil industry as cash-rich companies such as ExxonMobil eye up smaller rivals - possibly even Shell - after the collapse in the price of crude.
Nigerian militants abduct crew in attack on Shell
LAGOS (AFP) Nigerian militants early Sunday attacked a loading vessel, a tanker and a tug boat at a crude oil platform operated by Shell in Bonny and took eight crew members hostage, police and the military said
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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