Russia's oil and gas fields have proved treacherous for other foreign investors. When Royal Dutch Shell PLC announced that costs at the Sakhalin-2 project had nearly doubled, Russian environmental regulators bombarded it with complaints until Shell sold a majority stake in the project to a Kremlin-run gas company in 2006.
August 5th, 2008:
China, India Vie for Russian Oil
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BP Venture In Russia Hit as CFO Steps Down
However, a person close to BP said it looked bad for the London-based oil major. "This is another step in the corporate takeover," he said. "They've got the CEO to leave the country, they've got the 148 BP specialists out, and now they've got the CFO to resign."
Oil falls as fears for growth intensify
Crude oil prices fell below $120 a barrel for the first time in three months on Monday, as new data underscored the damage high energy costs are inflicting on US consumers.
State group faces overhaul as Nigeria weighs plans to boost oil output
The state group's repeated failure to meet its share of development costs for operations with companies including Royal Dutch Shell and Chevron has stalled the development of key projects needed to boost output.
Fight for control of BP-TNK escalates
James Owens resignation comes 10 days after Robert Dudley, TNK-BPs chief executive, left Russia citing a campaign of harassment. It will leave only three members of the groups original five-member core executive committee in Russia.
Oil: BP loses grip on troubled Russian venture as head of finance quits
The company has spent the past year fighting off claims from the tax, environmental and immigration authorities in what has been seen by some industry specialists as a rerun of the kind of problems that afflicted Shell until it sold part of its shareholding in Sakhalin to state-owned Gazprom.
Positive omens combine for courtship of Imperial Energy
The British group was accused of overstating its reserves to boost its share price, provoking fears that it could face the same renationalisation moves as Shells natural gas venture in Sakhalin and BPs Kovykta programme.
Shell Marketers Protest ‘Lost Profits’ Provision
WASHINGTON D.C. The National Association of Shell Marketers is coming out strong against the "lost profits" provision in the incentive agreements designed by Shell Oil Co.
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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