12.11.06, 4:13 AM ET
LONDON (AFX) – Royal Dutch Shell PLC has declined to detail the outcome of Friday’s talks between the Anglo-Dutch oil group and Russian gas monopoly Gazprom regarding the 20 bln usd Sakhalin-2 gas project.
A Shell spokesman in London said ‘Sakhalin-2 related issues were discussed’ during the meeting between Shell chief executive Jeroen van der Veer and his Gazprom counterpart, Alexei Miller.
Russian energy minister Viktor Khristenko also attended the meeting, he added.
‘But we can’t discuss the details of the meeting. The details are confidential,’ he said, adding that the talks were ‘positive and constructive.’
The comments follow a report by Dutch news agency ANP, citing industry sources, that Shell is handing over control of Sakhalin-2 to Gazprom.
Shell is the operator of the project with a 55 pct stake, while Japanese partners Mitsui & Co Ltd and Mitsubishi Corp own 25 pct and 20 pct respectively.
Shell, according to ANP, has agreed to retain a ‘blocking minority’ of at least a quarter of the project.
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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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