Reuters
Thursday February 21 2008
(Adds quotes, details, background)
ASTANA, Feb 21 (Reuters) – Kazakhstan will stop using production sharing agreements (PSAs) as a form of cooperation with companies seeking to tap its vast energy and metals reserves, Prime Minister Karim Masimov said on Thursday.
Kazakhstan has been toughening its energy policy over past years, alarming foreign investors who see its new-found assertiveness as part of the growing global trend of resource nationalism.
Masimov, addressing a meeting with tax officials, said the oil-rich Caspian nation will remain committed to contractual obligations stipulated in all existing PSAs with foreign and domestic companies.
“For new contracts we ought to exclude production sharing agreements as a type of contract,” Masimov said.
“Kazakhstan will continue to fulfil its obligations for those contracts that have already been signed,” he added.
He did not describe a type of contract Kazakhstan wanted to use with oil and metals companies from now on, but said taxes should be increased for all subsoil companies.
Kazakhstan’s biggest oilfields such as Kashagan, Tengiz and Karachaganak, are all being developed by Western oil majors including Italy’s Eni, Exxon Mobil, and Royal Dutch Shell. Kashagan and Karachaganak are PSAs, while Tengiz is based on a concession agreement.
(Reporting by Raushan Nurshayeva; Writing by Maria Golovnina, editing by Jacqueline Wong)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/feedarticle?id=7325938
This website and sisters royaldutchshellplc.com, shellnazihistory.com, royaldutchshell.website, johndonovan.website, and shellnews.net, are owned by John Donovan. There is also a Wikipedia segment.
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: 
MORE DETAILS:
A head-cut image of Alfred Donovan (now deceased) appears courtesy of The Wall Street Journal.
