January 22, 2007 5:18 AM ET
MOSCOW (AP) – State-controlled energy giants OAO Gazprom and OAO Rosneft will divide up Russia’s oil and gas-rich seabed evenly, the financial newspaper Vedomosti reported Monday, a step that would leave foreign oil companies with a minority role at most.
While the move has not been officially backed by President Vladimir Putin, the paper said, it would be in step with the Kremlin’s policy of re-establishing state control over Russia’s vast reserves.
Citing a source familiar with the talks, Vedomosti reported that it had been agreed in principle at a government meeting on Jan. 16 that gas monopoly Gazprom and oil company Rosneft would divide the country’s offshore oil and gas fields evenly between them.
The meeting was chaired by Putin and attended by government ministers as well as executives with the companies, which are close to the Kremlin, the paper said.
Kremlin officials were not immediately available to confirm the report.
Last year Gazprom took over a majority stake in the Sakhalin-2 offshore liquefied natural gas development from Royal Dutch Shell PLC after persistent government pressure on the project.
Russian regulators charged that Shell’s contractors had violated environmental law, while government officials fumed at a cost increase that would massively delay the point at which the state received money from the project, under the terms of Shell’s original, favorable deal.
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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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