By Upstream staff
Shell-led Salym Petroleum Development (SPD) is set to almost triple its social spending in West Siberia to more than $7 million by 2008, writes Vladimir Afanasiev.
The joint venture has spent about $2.5 million between 2003, when it began pushing ahead with its Salym oilfields project, and 2005.
SPD external affairs manager Elena Zakupneva says the company’s efforts have focused on the village of Salym, which is home to about 5500 people about 30 kilometres from the oil production sites.