By Upstream staff
Environmental concerns dogging the Sakhalin 2 development, in Russia’s far east, will be resolved next year, Sakhalin Energy management told Russian resources officials today.
The two sides met after the Gazprom-led project came under fire from the Russian government for what it claimed were continued environmental violations.
“I am pleased with your timetable to clear the problems next year and I think it’s positive Gazprom plays such a central role in your management,” Resources Minister Yuri Trutnev told Sakhalin Energy’s chief executive Ian Craig at a meeting in Moscow, Reuters reported.
Shell and its Japanese partners ceded control of 50% plus one share in the $22 billion project last year to Russian gas export monopoly Gazprom after breaching a significant number of environmental regulations.
While Craig admitted such violations were continuing, such as dumping soil in rivers and illegally clearing forests, he said a clean green record would be achieved next year, and not in 2010, as the Resources Ministry and Russia’s environmental agency Rosprirodnadzor officials, also present at the meeting, predicted.
Analysts have previously said the Sakhalin 2 project – which is meant to launch a liquefied natural gas plant in the third quarter of next year – could be delayed.
Last month the group said it would delay year-round exports of crude to next year from the end of this year, but insisted LNG deliveries would launch on time.
“We are on track for the project to go on stream next year,” Craig told Reuters, but declined to give a date.
Sakhalin 2 has estimated reserves of around 1 billion barrels of oil and 500 billion cubic metres of gas.
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26 October 2007 12:02 GMT | last updated: 26 October 2007 12:04 GMT
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.
