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September 1st, 2006:

Reuters: US drivers subsidize European pump prices: report

Thu Aug 31, 2006 4:35 PM ET
By Tom Doggett

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. drivers helped to boost Big Oil’s record profits more than their European counterparts, by paying more for gasoline once taxes were taken out at the pump, according to a report released on Thursday.

The report from the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights also showed that profit margins were much larger for multinational oil companies’ refinery operations in the United States than those located in Europe. read more

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Associated Press: Alaskans oppose drilling offshore, not in the refuge

September 1, 2006

KAKTOVIK, Alaska — Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne made his first visit to the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge on Thursday and was greeted by local leaders concerned not about drilling in the refuge, but by plans for offshore oil development. Tribal leaders said offshore drilling in the Beaufort Sea would interfere with their whaling.

Kempthorne, on a three-day tour of Alaska’s North Slope, visited Kaktovik, the only village in the refuge.

The meetings were private, but several participants said the major subject of discussion was concern over possible oil drilling in the Beaufort Sea, where Shell Corp. has obtained a number of drilling leases from the Interior Department’s Minerals Management Service. Lon Sonsalla, mayor of the town of 260 residents, said that people are worried about Shell’s plans. read more

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Voice of America: Nigerian Oil Workers Declare ‘Warning Strike’

By Gilbert da Costa
Abuja
31 August 2006

Nigerian oil unions have declared a three-day ‘warning strike’ to protest worsening violence and kidnapping of workers in the Niger Delta.   The unions are demanding steps to improve the situation or they may withdraw their members from the region, indefinitely.
 
Union officials say the warning strike underlines their frustration with the government’s handling of the violence in the troubled Niger Delta.
 
At least 18 oil workers have been taken hostage in the delta, this month alone.  A Nigerian oil worker was killed about two weeks ago, when troops attacked a boat carrying him and militants during an attempt to release him.
 
Peter Esele, national president of the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association,  says the government has failed to provide the necessary security guarantees, despite  several appeals from oil workers.  He says oil workers no longer feel safe in the region. read more

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Dow Jones Newswires: Nigeria Min Appears Before House Panel On Shell – Report

LAGOS -(Dow Jones)- Nigeria’s oil minister Wednesday appeared before a House committee to answer questions concerning an alleged underpayment to the government by a unit of Royal Dutch Shell PLC (RDSA), a private television station reported.

Channels TV said that Minister of State for Petroleum Edmund Daukoru presented the Committee on Petroleum a value-for-money audit report that the committee has said is vital to its investigation.

The committee had invited him to testify about an alleged underpayment of $3.2 billion for crude oil shipped by Shell Petroleum Development Co. of Nigeria, or SPDC. read more

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