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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4Kofi Annan brokered a deal on behalf of Amoco and Chevron with the Nigerian government for the remaining 15% of its oil and gas resources. He sent in 15,000 UN 'peacekeepers' to sweeten the deal. Reported in The Village magazine.
This all happened without a resolution from the UNSC, and, on the day the World Cup kicked off while the press was wall to wall about idiot Wayne Rooney's metatarsal bone in his foot.
Nigeria is the sixth largest exporter of oil to the west and its people are some of the poorest people on the plannet and Geldof never mentions the rip off to us and rat out his friends, sad considering he called himself a rat at one point in his life when he stood for something before he mingled with the incrowd and became part of the problem.
He admitted on mtv with blair that Sudan and Nigeria supply 19% of the oil for the rich of the world. Forgive me, I should have addressed him properly and said 'Sir Bob'.
Shell predicts energy shortage by 2015
Calgary Herald
Published: Saturday, January 26, 2008
Royal Dutch Shell PLC forecasts that global demand for oil and gas will outstrip supply within seven years, chief executive Jeroen van der Veer said in a letter to Shell employees.
"We are experiencing a step-change in the growth rate of energy demand due to population growth and economic development, and Shell estimates that after 2015 supplies of easy-to-access oil and gas will no longer keep up with demand," van der Veer said in the letter dated Jan. 22.
http://www.canada.com/calgaryherald/news/calgarybusines...c89bc
So resources are getting more scarce. But there's one place where you can still get them for free.
Shell set to stir petrol storm with record profits of £13.6bn
Oil group to post highest earnings by a British firm
by David Teather
The Guardian,
Monday January 28 2008
full stroy here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/jan/28/royaldut...l.oil
Shell will be at the centre of a political storm this week when it posts profits of almost $27bn (£13.6bn), the highest earnings ever made by a British company.
City analysts are forecasting that Shell, due to announce its results on Thursday, will have made around $26.6bn in 2007. The Anglo-Dutch company reported profits of $25.4bn during 2006. By comparison, Tesco, Britain's biggest retailer, made £2.7bn last year.
The oil price hovered at $90 a barrel in the last three months of 2007. After spiking this month and briefly breaking through the $100 level, it is trading at about $90.66.
A Shell spokesman declined to comment ahead of the results. But the company has previously defended its profits, arguing that the lion's share is re-invested - capital expenditure in 2007 was forecast to be in the range of $22bn-$23bn.
Jeroen van der Veer, Shell's chief executive, warned last week that by 2015 supplies of easy-to-access oil and gas would no longer keep up with demand. Governments are also demanding higher cuts from new oil fields.
Shell's $27,600,000,000 profit announcement was branded as obscene by the general secretary of the biggest union in Britain, who called for the company to pay more tax. No one in Ireland made any statement even remotely like this, except some very cold protesters standing outside a building site in Mayo at dawn. Minister Eamon Ryan announced some cosmetic changes to the tax regime last year, but even these don't apply to the massive Corrib field.
From The Telegraph:
- While investors fretted about whether the $27.6bn profits based on the current cost of supply masked deep problems facing the world's second largest non-government oil company, Shell received a barrage of complaints that its earnings were "obscene".
The annual profits, which were up 9pc, are a record for a European listed company and were driven by last year's soaring oil price, which averaged $90 a barrel for the last three months of 2007.
The company's chief executive, Jeroen van der Veer, said the figures were "satisfactory", but the Unite union and the AA motoring organisation said the government should skim off some of the oil giant's profits.
Unite joint general secretary Tony Woodley called the profits "obscene", adding: "Greedy oil companies should be asked to contribute for the common good."
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