Gazprom Neft and Shell have used the occasion of this year’s St Petersburg International Economic Forum to sign a Memorandum of Understanding. Vadim Yakovlev, First Deputy CEO, Gazprom Neft, and Olivier Lazar, Country Chair, Shell Russia, have both put their signatures to a document confirming both companies’ intention of promoting further cooperation.
Both sides have confirmed their intention of continuing negotiations on the Khanty-Mansiysky Oil and Gas Union’s provisional assessment of a range of non-shale oil deposits in Eastern Siberia, including the Achimovsky deposits in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug. In addition to this, Gazprom Neft and Shell have committed to undertake geological prospecting of license blocks in the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug, adjoining licence blocks owned by Salym Petroleum Development N.V.,* through that enterprise.
Vadim Yakovlev, First Deputy CEO, Gazprom Neft, commented: “Gazprom Neft and Shell have many years’ experience of successful collaboration on practically all areas of the business. Our joint enterprises are not only successfully undertaking production activities in one of the most important regions for Gazprom Neft — the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug — but have also taken on the role of leading the industry in technology, implementing cutting-edge strategies for improving oil recovery, and playing an active role in finding effective methods of working with hard-to-recover reserves. The Memorandum of Understanding signed today confirms our wider interest in further development, together.”
* Gazprom Neft and Shell are participating on a parity basis in two upstream joint ventures — Salym Petroleum Development and the Khanty-Mansiysk Oil and Gas Union. Salym Petroleum Development has been developing the Salym group of oil fields (with total recoverable reserves of 140 million tonnes) in the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug since 2003. Based within Salym Petroleum Development, work is currently underway on a pilot enhanced oil recovery (EOR) project unique to Russia involving the injection of a three-component mixture into the reservoir, allowing the production of a up to 30 percent more from the subsoil. The Khanty-Mansiysk Oil and Gas Union, established in 2013, is involved in the geological prospecting and evaluation of non-shale oilfields in Western Siberia. In addition to these projects, Gazprom Neft and Shell also work together in supplying marine (bunkering) fuel.
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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A head-cut image of Alfred Donovan (now deceased) appears courtesy of The Wall Street Journal.
