Tue Nov 6, 2007 7:00pm GMT
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Dutch firms are looking for more gas exploration opportunities in Russia, the world’s biggest gas producer, a Dutch minister of foreign trade told reporters on Tuesday.
“Dutch companies are looking at possibilities to explore gas fields in Yamal… it’s very cold, it’s very difficult, but there’s a lot of gas,” Frank Heemskerk said on the sidelines of a state visit by Dutch Prime Minister Balkenende to Moscow.
Yamal, in the northwest of Siberia, holds potential gas reserves of 50 trillion cubic meters, the largest in Russia, and is being developed by Russian gas export monopoly Gazprom.
Heemskerk declined to name which companies are interested in Yamal, but said any potential project would be independent, and will not involve Gazprom or state-controlled oil major Rosneft.
Royal Dutch Shell, which has a significant presence in Russia, also attended the state visit as part of a Dutch business delegation, but would not comment on specific details of its discussions with president Vladimir Putin, which took place on Tuesday.
“One of the topics to be discussed (between Russia and the Dutch) is the enhancement of exploration and exports of Russian energy resources and the possible contribution therein of Dutch companies,” Shell’s spokesman in Moscow, Maxim Shub, said.
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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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