THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
MARCH 9, 2009, 9:44 P.M. ET
LONDON — Royal Dutch Shell PLC said Monday that a recent militant attack on a Nigerian oil pipeline had forced it to halt deliveries to many customers.
Shell has seen a spate of other attacks on its facilities in recent weeks and has been forced to end oil and natural-gas deliveries to many other customers until further notice.
The declaration, which protects Shell from lawsuits for not meeting oil deliveries to customers due to actions outside the company’s control, is expected to be in place for March and April, a Shell spokesman said.
He wouldn’t specify how much production and how many customers were affected, but a Nigerian oil official said the attack disrupted about 50,000 to 100,000 barrels a day of production for more than a week. The attack took place on the Escravos pipeline, which sends crude from Shell’s Forcados fields to the Escravos export terminal in the country’s main oil-producing region.
The assault follows the end of a cease-fire announced last month by Nigeria’s main militant group, the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, and the group’s vow to attack more oil installations.
Nigeria’s main oil-producing region, the Niger Delta, is also a hotbed for oil theft by locals who tap into pipelines — causing an environmental mess for villages — and sell the crude on the thriving black market.
Around one quarter of Nigeria’s effective pumping capacity, or around 600,000 barrels a day, is currently shut because of militant attacks. Much of that production is operated by the Shell-run government joint venture.
The recent attacks have also hit the operations of U.S.-based Chevron Corp. and Italy’s EniSpA.
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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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