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MOSCOW, January 15 (RIA Novosti) – Sakhalin Energy has launched gas production for the first time from the Lunskoye-A (LUN-A) platform 15 km (9 miles) northeast off Sakhalin, in Russia’s Far East, the company said in a statement on Thursday.
the first two gas wells built in late December 2008, the company has now started gradually increasing gas output.
Gas from the LUN-A platform will be delivered to the Onshore Processing Facility from where it is being transited to a LNG plant in southern Sakhalin along the TransSakhalin pipeline, Sakhalin Energy said in a press release.
“This important step brings us very close to making this ambitious project a reality. With the start of LNG production in the next few weeks Sakhalin will truly become the new Russian energy source for Asia Pacific,” Sakhalin Energy’s Production Director Tim Hake was quoted as saying.
Sakhalin Energy is the operator and investor for the $20 billion Sakhalin II project which includes the Piltun-Astokhskoye and Lunskoye oil and gas fields on Sakhalin Island’s northeastern shelf, with recoverable reserves estimated at 150 million tons (1.1 billion bbl) of oil and 500 billion cubic meters of natural gas.
The minority partners in the project, Royal Dutch Shell, Mitsui and Mitsubishi, currently hold 27.5%, 12.5% and 10% stakes in the project respectively. Gazprom acquired a controlling stake (50% plus one share) in December 2006.
Gazprom said last November that the first stage of the liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant in Sakhalin would be launched in 2009 and the second stage in 2010.
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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