By Upstream staff
Russia’s gas monopoly Gazprom has mandated two banks, including ABN AMRO, to arrange a $2 billion dual-tranche syndicated loan, which will be used for general corporate purposes including acquisitions, a banking source said today.
The transaction includes a three-year and a five-year tranche. Syndication is expected to launch within the next week.
The new deal is the company’s first since it was upgraded to A3 by Moody’s in December, and as such is expected to set a new pricing benchmark.
Gazprom had already picked Credit Suisse and Morgan Stanley to lead a $2 billion Eurobond to be placed at the end of February and earlier today the company said it will start placement of a seven-year, 5 billion rouble ($189.8 million) bond on 21 February.
Gazprom needs to raise money to pay $7.45 billion to Shell and its Japanese partners for half of the Sakhalin 2 development, which it agreed to buy last year.
The company also wants to bid for some assets of the bankrupt oil producer Yukos when the state starts selling them later this year to recover back tax debt, Reuters reported.
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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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