Analysts believe the big international oil companies will be forced to curb generous dividend rises, rein in soaring investment spending and may even cut back on jobs, after four years of complaining of difficulties in finding staff.
January 25th, 2009:
Shell and BP profits could be hit by crude collapse
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The partys over for Big Oil
Earnings will be dismal. Theyre all under pressure to cut costs. The sharp drop in oil and gas prices has tremendous far-reaching ramifications on the landscape, Gheit said.
Speculation on Exxon Acquisition of Royal Dutch Shell growing
Speculation has been growing as to whether Exxon will make an acquisition, possibly for BG Group or for all or part of Royal Dutch Shell.
Shell in worst profit slump for 10 years: profits have collapsed by 62% in the fourth quarter
Shell is still bruised by its experience in the late 1990s when the price of oil fell to a 25-year low. The company responded in 1999 by slicing $6.2bn off its $15.7bn capital expenditure programme, which included a $3bn reduction in its budget to explore for new sources of oil. This contributed to the reserves scandal of 2004, when the company had to downgrade a fifth of its reserves, resulting in the departure of chief executive Philip Watts.
Shell set to report a near 50% collapse in fourth quarter earnings
Outgoing chief executive Jeroen van der Veer, who will be replaced by Peter Voser in July, faces a difficult end to his time in office as analysts warn that the major oil companies will this year have to scale back investment programmes and even cut jobs.
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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