No surprise, then, that the same names keep showing up: ExxonMobil, BP, Total, Chevron, Royal Dutch Shell. But that list should also include the national oil companies and the sovereign wealth funds from Asia and the Middle East.
February 24th, 2009:
Takeover hints at deals to come
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Kazakh oil telling for industry’s future
Campbell Keir, director of Royal Dutch Shell in Kazakhstan, says the offshore Kashagan field is one of the most technically challenging fields in the industry, which may be the future of the energy sector.
Nigeria, Shell clinch 1.6 billion-dollar gas deal
ABUJA, Nigeria (AFP) Nigeria and oil giant Royal Dutch Shell Tuesday announced a 1.6 billion dollar (1.25 billion euro) gas production project in the volatile Niger Delta.
Shell sees Nigeria Soku gas output restored soon
"Hopefully soon, in the coming weeks, we can bring production back on," Ann Pickard, Shell's regional executive vice president for Africa, told an industry conference in Abuja.
Nigeria warned over energy reform plans
Ms Pickard said Shell was in favour of the governments plan to restructure the NNPC, which is designed to tackle a chronic lack of investment in its joint ventures with Western majors, but said questions over the future shape of the tax regime were hurting new investment.
Oil majors drag on Footsie amid glum outlook for crude
We believe the oil sector is entering a steeper and longer downturn than either the oil or equity markets imply and that large-cap oil shares are not as defensive as currently priced, BarCaps Tim Whittaker said.
Shell to continue with $31bn plans
Daily Telegraph
23 February 2009
Royal Dutch Shell plans to continue with its $31 bn (£21 bn) investment programme this year despite the collapse in crude oil prices from a record high of $147 a barrel last July.
Jeroen van der Veer, Shell’s chief executive, said that “for our projects, we never took into account that prices would remain so high for so long”. He added: “All our investments, and the few we postponed, can perfectly withstand current oil prices.”
The majority of oil companies are pulling back their spending as the fall in crude prices erodes profits.
BP and Shell hit by talk of cutting dividends
Heavyweight oil majors BP and Royal Dutch Shell came under pressure after broker Barclays Capital raised the prospect of both companies cutting their dividends if the oil price continues to decline.
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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