Some of the worlds top oil executives gathered in Houston this week for aCambridge Energy Research Associates conference, and they had a polite though pointed request for President Obama: Please open your waters and restricted lands to our oil and gas drillers.
Tony Hayward, the chief executive officer of the British energy giant BP, said,Today, a fourth of U.S. oil production comes from the 15 percent of the U.S. outer continental shelf that is available to our industry. We have the know-how and technology to tap these resources safely and with minimal impact to the environment.
We have the know-how and technology to tap these resources safely and with minimal impact to the environment.
He noted that in the last three decades, oil imports have increased from 36 to 65 percent of American consumption as the search for new sources of domestic crude has been constrained by lack of access to promising areas.
Mr. Hayward estimated that fields now off limits exceed 100 billion barrels of oil in place, with 30 billion of that recoverable.
Jeroen Van Der Veer, the chief executive of Royal Dutch Shell, was equally forceful. Take the continental shelf, take the north of Alaska, Mr. Van Der Veer said. I am personally convinced that companies can work very responsibly in these environments and work with local communities. It will be an easy win-win to get access to all those areas, and I think it will be good news for the United States.
Oil company executives have been making similar pitches for years, and this year they face a Democratic Administration and Congress that are not expected to be overly friendly to Big Oil even after gasoline prices have plummeted.
Their remarks came on the same day Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced that a Bush Administration plan to open new areas to drilling would be put off and probably scaled back later this year.
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.
