By Torrey Clark
Oct. 24 (Bloomberg) — OAO Gazprom’s Sakhalin-2 project with Royal Dutch Shell Plc delayed drilling Russia’s first offshore natural-gas well until next year as the venture completes construction of overland oil and gas pipelines.
Project operator Sakhalin Energy Investment Co. plans to drill as many as five gas production wells from the Lunskoye-A platform next year, spokeswoman Evgenia Oleinikova said by telephone today from Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk in Russia’s Far East.
The venture last month delayed winter crude oil exports “closer to the start of the second quarter” of 2008 while onshore oil and gas pipelines to ice-free export terminals in the south are completed.
“We’re working based on our target of starting exports of liquefied natural gas in the second half of next year,” Moscow- based spokesman Ivan Chernyakhovsky said today. Neither Oleinikova nor Chernyakhovsky commented on the drilling delay.
Russia, the world’s biggest gas supplier, has lagged behind competitors Indonesia and Qatar in liquefying natural gas for shipment by tanker to consumers such as Japan and North America. Sakhalin Energy is building the country’s first LNG plant.
Russian regulators last year threatened to halt construction of the twin oil and gas pipelines because of environmental concerns. At the time, state-run Gazprom was negotiating to buy control of the $22 billion Sakhalin-2 project from Shell and its partners, Mitsui & Co. and Mitsubishi Corp.
Sakhalin Energy said July 9 that it had begun work on a well into which drilling waste would be injected and planned to start the first production well from the Lunskoye-A platform this year.
To contact the reporter on this story: Torrey Clark in Moscow at [email protected] .
Last Updated: October 24, 2007 08:01 EDT
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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.
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