(Fed up: Putin said Russia has lost patience with BP and others over Kovykta field)
By Upstream staff
Russia has run out of patience with Russian billionaires and oil major BP over their repeated delays in bringing the giant Kovykta gas field on stream, President Vladimir Putin said today.
“I would like to stress that the field has reserves of 3 trillion cubic metres. To understand its importance for our country it is equal to almost all reserves of Canada,” Putin said in an interview.
“If the members of the consortium are doing nothing to meet licence obligations, how much longer do we have to tolerate this?” Putin told Western reporters ahead of the G8 summit in Germany.
On Friday, Russia’s resources ministry put off a decision on stripping BP’s Russian venture TNK-BP of its Kovykta licence by two weeks.
Many industry analysts said the delay would allow the country to sail peacefully through the G8 summit and avoid upsets at its landmark economic forum in St Petersburg, Reuters said.
Analysts still expect TNK-BP to lose the licence later this year or cede control in Kovykta to gas export monopoly Gazprom at a bargain price.
The protracted battle for the $20-billion Kovykta is seen by many analysts as part of a Kremlin drive to consolidate major energy resources under state control.
TNK-BP had hoped to use the field for gas exports to China but was forced to trim production to cover only local needs after Gazprom banned the plan as it has its own rival project to supply China.
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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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A head-cut image of Alfred Donovan (now deceased) appears courtesy of The Wall Street Journal.
