MOSCOW (Reuters) – Royal Dutch Shell could make a deal with Gazprom on the $22 billion Sakhalin-2 project by the end of this week if progress in talks continues, a spokesman said on Sunday.
“If progress continues to be made, we would expect talks to conclude by the end of this week,” said Shell spokesman Alf D’Souza. He described the talks as constructive.
Industry sources told Reuters last week that Shell has offered to cede control of the Sakhalin-2 project, the world’s largest liquefied natural gas project. It is also Russia’s biggest single foreign investment.
Shell, as operator of the project, has a 55-percent stake, while Japanese partners Mitsui & Co <8031.T>. and Mitsubishi <8058.T> have stakes of 25 percent and 20 percent.
Shell CEO Jeroen van der Veer met Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller and Russian Energy Minister Viktor Khristenko last week.
Getting a major stake in Sakhalin-2 would be a victory for Gazprom’s Miller and the Kremlin as senior officials wrestle control over major oil and gas projects in Russia.
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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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