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...Numbers $36.1 billion Profit reported by Exxon Mobil for 2005, the largest ever for an American company $22.9 billion Profit reported by Royal Dutch Shell for 2005, the largest ever for a U.K.-listed company...
Those stocks include energy company Royal Dutch Shell, oil field services firm Schlumberger Ltd., Russian oil company AO Tatneft, and oil firm China Petroleum and Chemical Corp., or Sinopec...
...Costing $35 million to build, the Serena was erected over the shell of the old Kabul Hotel, destroyed in the civil war. The new property is a sealed world, insulated as far as possible from the daily difficulties of life in Kabul. At a cost of some $1.2 million a year, the hotel will run its own electricity generators?essential in a city where power often flickers on for only four hours every other day?and will treat its own water and sewage...
...Kabul Serena Hotel (serenahotels.com), offering a sorely needed alternative to those somewhat disheveled media and diplomat haunts, the Intercontinental and the Mustafa, as well as to the dilapidated guesthouses where many visitors have had to hole up. Costing $35 million to build, the Serena was erected over the shell of the old Kabul Hotel, destroyed in the civil war. The new property is a sealed world, insulated as far as possible from the daily difficulties of life in Kabul. At a cost of some $1.2 million a year, the hotel will run its own electricity generators - essential in a city...
...Winning hearts and minds could take years, however. "We still do not trust Shell," says Ledum Mitee, who runs the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People, which Saro-Wiwa founded before being hanged. Mitee claims his members aren't responsible for the latest attacks. He says Shell must apologize for its practices of the past and begin direct talks with activists. Until then, "this is a situation which is really prone to violence," he says. With global oil supplies still tight, that's a warning that producers and consumers around the world would do well to heed...