Prime Minister Vladimir Putin offered Royal Dutch Shell a role in the Sakhalin-3 and Sakhalin-4 natural gas projects on Saturday, just 2 1/2 years after Europe's biggest oil producer was forced to cede control of Sakhalin-2 to Gazprom.
June 28th, 2009:
Shell Welcomes Putin’s Sakhalin Offer
Putin welcomes Shell to offshore projects
Vladimir Putin, Russian prime minister, threw down the welcome mat to Shell, telling the Anglo-Dutch major it could participate in new offshore oil and gas projects and help Russia build LNG tankers to help globalise its gas trade.
Russia invites Shell back to Sakhalin as finances plummet
In a surprise move, Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin invited Royal Dutch Shell to help develop two new oil and gas fields on Sakhalin Island, just three years after the government forced the company to cede majority control in the Sakhalin 2 project to state-controlled group Gazprom.
Three arrested over Shell protest
The Solitaire, which is being protected by two Irish Navy vessels, is to begin laying the offshore pipeline that will connect the landfall installation at Glengad with the gas field 83km away.
Shell’s Nigerian Settlement
THE NEW YORK TIMES
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Published: June 28, 2009
In the editorial Ending a Shell Game (June 24) you argue that Shells out-of-court settlement with Nigerian plaintiffs in Manhattan earlier this month saved costly embarrassment and the public airing of evidence of collusion and human rights abuses by the company in Nigeria. We see the matter differently.
We knew the charges against us were not true. And we were confident that the evidence would have shown this that Shell was not responsible for the tragic events of Nov. 10, 1995. The execution of nine leaders of the Ogoni people shocked us all. And we wanted others to see and understand that.
Only six fishermen out of 50 refused Shell compensation
Despite claims by the protest group Shell to Sea, local sources say there is very little opposition among the people living in the Erris area to the 2bn operation that has brought 2,000 jobs to the area and will provide a major energy supply to the country in the coming decades.
Fishermen claim tricks in pipeline fight
At Glengad in north Mayo yesterday, tourists must have thought they had strayed on to the set of a James Bond film. There were cameras, a helicopter, a mysterious ship and getaway boats. Several 4X4s and unmarked buses filled with police were on the land.