MARTIN FLANAGAN
CITY EDITOR
RUSSIAN gas monopoly Gazprom and British-Dutch oil giant Royal Dutch Shell are thinking about building a gas-to-liquids plant in western Siberia in a project potentially worth $8 billion (£4.3bn), Gazprom said yesterday.
“We are considering building a 12 billion cubic metre gas-to- liquids [GTL] plant in Nadym together with Shell,” Gazprom’s deputy chief executive, Alexander Ryazanov, told a news conference.
Shell confirmed it had entered into preliminary talks with Gazprom, but declined to put a potential value on the project.
A Shell spokesman said: “We are in discussion with Gazprom over a preliminary feasibility study for a gas-to-liquids project in Russia.”
The estimate Ryazanov gave for investment in the project, Russia’s first GTL plant, would put it on a par with Shell’s proposed investment in the world’s biggest GTL plant in Qatar.
Analysts have speculated the cost of the Pearl project in Qatar could hit $8bn, up from an estimate provided by Shell in 2003 of $5bn.
Shell has said a final investment decision on Pearl, a joint venture with Qatar Petroleum, is due this year.
GTL technology processes natural gas into clean oil products such as low-sulphur diesel, which is increasingly in demand to meet tightening restrictions.
Gazprom said a move into GTL would make sense, as the cost of pumping gas from some fields was rising as output from those fields declined.
The first commercial-scale GTL project was launched this month in Qatar, in a joint venture between Qatar Petroleum and South Africa’s Sasol.
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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.
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