By Edmund Conway
Last Updated: 12:14am GMT 18/12/2006
Oil giant Shell is within days of tying up the disposal of its majority stake in the mammoth Russian oil-and-gas project Sakhalin II, it has emerged. The Anglo-Dutch company expects to complete its talks with the Russian government and Gazprom by the end of the week, it confirmed yesterday.
It has come under intense pressure from Russian authorities to quit the project, which is the only major development in Russia owned entirely by foreigners.
Chief executive Jeroen van der Veer, who has flown to a series of meetings in Moscow with energy minister Viktor Khristenko and his Gazprom counterpart Alexei Miller, is expected to announce what progress has been made in the coming days. A spokesman said: “If progress continues to be made, we would expect talks to conclude by the end of this week.”
Industry sources claim Mr van der Veer has agreed in principle to sell Shell’s controlling stake in the £12bn project to Gazprom, in a deal that would allow Shell to keep a blocking stake of at least a quarter, though others believe Shell could sell its entire stake. Shell owns 55pc of the project, while the remaining 45pc is owned by Japanese groups Mitsui and Mitsubishi.
The owners – and in particular Shell – have come under pressure to sell their stakes, following environmental probes which led the government to threaten to confiscate their permits.
The news may concern Shell’s rival, BP, which has a joint venture with TNK in Russia. BP said it had won a concession to develop two large natural gas fields in central Oman. The Khazzan and Makarem fields are expected to yield large volumes, the Omani energy ministry said.
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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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