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The talks include the portion of the €16.7 billion ($22 billion) project cost to be borne by Gazprom and existing investors, Utsuda said in an interview in Tokyo.
Mitsui & Co. President Shoei Utsuda said talks by partner Royal Dutch Shell Plc to resolve environmental concerns at Sakhalin-2 and to include OAO Gazprom in the Russian gas project “will not take a long time.” Shell owns 55% of the venture, Mitsui, Japan’s second-largest trading company, owns 25% and Mitsubishi Corp., Japan’s largest trading company, owns 20%.
The Russian government has threatened to halt work at the project on the island in the Pacific Ocean because it alleged Shell has violated environmental rules. Shell wants to begin exporting LNG from Sakhalin-2 in 2008.”Even if there are delays because of environmental concerns, we don’t expect a wait of more than one to two months for LNG shipments,” Utsuda said. “We believe a conclusion will be reached that will be acceptable to all parties.” Gazprom and Shell agreed in July 2005 that Shell would swap 25% of Sakhalin-2 for 50% of Gazprom’s Zapolyarnoye field in northern Russia.
Less than two weeks later, Shell said the cost of stage two of Sakhalin-2 had doubled, causing Gazprom to halt talks. Mitsubishi Corp. may sell part of its 20% interest to Shell, Ichiro Mizuno, the Japanese company’s finance head, said on January 31. Sakhalin-2 is Russia’s only major energy asset fully owned by foreign companies. “In the Middle East, there have been cases where countries have raised objections to foreign participation mid-way through projects,” Utsuda said. “It’s only natural that the rise in crude oil prices would prompt Russia to ask for a stake.”
Crude oil prices in New York rose to a record of $78.40 a barrel in New York on July 14. (Bloomberg)
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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.
IN JULY 2007, MR BILL CAMPBELL (ABOVE, A RETIRED GROUP AUDITOR OF SHELL INTERNATIONAL SENT AN EMAIL TO EVERY UK MP AND MEMBER OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS: 
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A head-cut image of Alfred Donovan (now deceased) appears courtesy of The Wall Street Journal.
