Jul 22nd, 2014
by John Donovan.

At one point the largest foreign investor in Russia, Shell declined to comment on whether its business would be affected after the downing of the plane. The company lost four employees in the incident, it said yesterday.
BloombergBusinessweek article by Celeste Perri, Maud van Gaal and Fred Pals published 22 July 2014
For centuries, the fortunes of the Netherlands, the wind-swept country carved out of North Sea wetlands, have relied on preserving the peace with its global trading partners. Last week’s downing of an airliner carrying 193 Dutch nationals is testing one of its most important relationships, involving companies from Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSA) to Heineken NV. (HEIA)
The Netherlands was Russia’s third-biggest trading partner last year, data compiled by Bloomberg show. The Dutch, home to the busiest container port in Europe and the region’s biggest energy company, send dairy products, meat and machinery to Russia, which the U.S. says is complicit in the attack. read more
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May 17th, 2014
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Extracts from a Motley Fool article by Arjun Sreekumar published 17 May 2014
Shell clearly has significant exposure to Russia. The worst-case scenario for the company, as well as for BP and other companies operating in the nation, would be if the U.S. and European Union sanctioned Russia’s energy sector. Such economic penalties would make it problematic for Shell to maintain relations with Gazprom… As I understand it, such a sanction, if imposed, would not impact Shell’s existing projects. However, it would affect new projects and expansion plans, including perhaps the proposed expansion of Sakhalin-2. It could also hamper Shell’s 50/50 joint venture with Gazprom in western Siberia’s Salym fields… I remain cautious about Shell’s exposure to Russia. read more
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Mar 2nd, 2014
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Extract from an article by Nick Webb published Sunday 02 March 2014 by Independent.ie
THE controversial Corrib gas field is expected to come onstream by “mid 2015.” Gas was originally expected to flow from the Mayo field back in 2003. The project is now likely to be 12 years behind the original schedule. The cost of developing the field could be four times the initial estimate of €800m at over €3bn.
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ADDED BY JOHN DONOVAN: “The Bad News” slide appeared in a 62 page Royal Dutch Shell internal PowerPoint presentation prepared in June 2000: “Excom Early Look Business Plan 2000″. Turned out to be chillingly accurate in relation to many Shell projects, including Sakhalin2 and the Alaska debacle. read more
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Nov 13th, 2013
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As the detention of Greenpeace’s ‘Arctic 30’ by Russian security services approaches its second month, a shift of campaign tactics is taking place. Now Shell, Gazprom’s partner in developing oil and gas on the Arctic Shelf, is in the firing line.

The Ecologist: 13th November 2013
As the detention of Greenpeace’s ‘Arctic 30’ by Russian security services approaches its second month, a shift of campaign tactics is taking place. Now Shell, Gazprom’s partner in developing oil and gas on the Arctic Shelf, is in the firing line.
Greenpeace is targetting Shell in a new round of protests aimed at securing the release of the Arctic 30 protestors arrested on a Russian oil platform owned by oil and gas giant Gazprom in the Arctic Ocean 56 days ago. read more
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Jan 30th, 2012
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Gazprom Expansion of Sakhalin-2 LNG Plant May Cost $7 Billion
January 30, 2012, 5:20 AM EST
By Jake Rudnitsky
Jan. 30 (Bloomberg) — OAO Gazprom and its partners in the Sakhalin-2 project may decide on expanding their liquefied natural gas plant this year, to add supplies by 2018, said Andrey Galaev, the ventures chief executive officer.
An expansion may cost $5 billion to $7 billion based on preliminary estimates, Galaev told reporters today in Moscow. Depending on changes in oil and gas prices, the construction cost may drop as low as $3 billion or climb as high as $8 billion, he said. read more
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Jun 11th, 2009
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Russia-InfoCenter – Moscow, Russia
10.06.2009
Royal Dutch Shell is interested in taking part in development of Sakhalin 3 project conjointly with Russian Gazprom, the spokesman for the Shell’s office in Russia said. Besides, he noted, that the company is also holding negotiations on cooperation in the number of projects with Rosneft.
Earlier Gazprom’s spokesman reported that licenses for exploration and development of three blocks of Sakhalin 3 project were at the preparatory stage. Both, Gazprom and Shell have experience of collaboration within Sakhalin 2 project. read more
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Apr 29th, 2009
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Royal Dutch Shell said it is examining plans with Gazprom to expand Sakhalin projects beyond their liquefied natural gas venture in the Far East.
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Apr 15th, 2009
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Mr. Mitvol, 42 years old, sprang to global prominence in 2006 when he accused Royal Dutch Shell of a string of environmental failings at its giant Sakhalin II oil and gas project in Russia's Far East. Under pressure from Mr. Mitvol and other Russian officials, Shell, which had a 55% stake in the project, sold control to state-controlled OAO Gazprom. Shell now owns a 27.5% stake in the project.
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Apr 14th, 2009
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Mitvol, deputy head of environment watchdog RosPrirodNadzor, led a 2006 attack on the Sakhalin-2 energy project that ended only after Royal Dutch Shell (RDSa.L) ceded control of the project to state-controlled gas giant Gazprom (GAZP.MM)
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Mar 11th, 2009
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Oil prices are lower, and may continue to stay low for a period, and that will ease access to reserves, Shell Chief Executive Officer Jeroen van der Veer told Bloomberg News in an interview in London on March 4. It is not happening now, but it will happen.
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Feb 27th, 2009
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Oil and natural gas development off the coast of Sakhalin Island in Russia's Far East could have forced endangered whales to leave their habitat in the area, a local WWF spokesperson said on Thursday.
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Feb 27th, 2009
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In yet another example of Kremlin energy politics that so unsettle Western investors, in late 2006 Gazprom wrested control of the huge oil and gas field from Shell after it was accused of breaking environmental laws. Gazprom then became the majority owner.
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Feb 18th, 2009
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Gazprom bought control of the $22 billion Sakhalin-2 project after a prolonged crisis that forced Royal Dutch Shell (RDSa.L), the project's former leader, and its partners to reduce their holdings. Analysts had expected the battle would lead to delays. Shell is now a minority shareholder, along with Japan's Mitsubishi (8058.T) and Mitsui (8031.T).
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Feb 18th, 2009
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Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, 18 February 2009: President Dmitry Medvedev today opened Russia's first liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant built by Sakhalin Energy Investment Company Limited (Sakhalin Energy).
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Feb 15th, 2009
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Gazprom bought control of the $22 billion project after a prolonged crisis that forced Royal Dutch Shell, the project's former leader, and its partners to reduce their holdings. Analysts had expected that the battle would lead to delays. Shell is now a minority shareholder along with Japan's Mitsubishi and Mitsui.
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Feb 11th, 2009
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"To invest or not to invest. We are convinced that it is better to keep on investing. You have to replace easier oil with more difficult oil. You can do that best with long-life projects that you can do for years," said van der Veer, singling out as an example Shell's $20 billion investment in Russia's Sakhalin 2 project.
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Jan 26th, 2009
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The oil spill is believed to have occurred on Sunday after a tanker left the liquefied natural gas plant which is still under construction. The plant is owned by Sakhalin Energy which is the operator and investor for the $20 billion Sakhalin II project.
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Jan 24th, 2009
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In the hard commercial world, Shell is, as always, prepared to do whatever it takes to meet its objectives, whether in the USA (bribery and corruption), Nigeria (fuelling corruption and violence, with no end to the gas flaring), the North Sea (production and profit before offshore worker lives) or in Russia (bribery and corruption on the Sakhalin-2 project).
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Dec 30th, 2008
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Dec 27th, 2008
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The Russian national anthem blared over the loudspeakers as dozens of oilmen and officials braved the freezing cold to watch the tanker come in, celebrating the launch of year-round oil production from Sakhalin-2, the largest oil and gas project in the world.
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Dec 18th, 2008
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A contract with the chief executive of Sakhalin Energy, the operator of the Sakhalin II oil and gas project off Russia's Pacific Coast, has been extended for 2009, a Gazprom executive said Thursday.
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Dec 15th, 2008
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This article was originally published in the December 2008 issue of the IAGS Journal of Energy Security
SUNDAY, 14 DECEMBER 2008 00:00 WARREN WILCZEWSKI
Russias efforts to create within the Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF) a more focused “Big Gas Troika” composed of Iran, Qatar, and Russia have been identified as a serious threat to European, and global energy security. Following an October 21st, 2008 meeting in Tehran between representatives of the three countries, a Gazprom press release suggested this producers group (also referred to as a “Gas G3”) could be expanded, and include other GECF countries in what Alexei Miller calls an “Energy Pole.” Parallels with OPEC, which at its inception also functioned as a consultative body, are clear; the proposed organization bears the hallmarks of a nascent cartel an Organization of Gas Exporting Countries (OGEC), with Russia in the drivers seat. In the short term, prospects of such a cartel have remained a marginal concern for EU Energy Commissioner Andris Pielbags, who finds Norways categorical opposition to membership in such an organization reassuring. A recent IEA report, however, suggests such a cartel may indeed emerge within ten years, further empowering its members in their dealings with major gas importing countries.
Motivations behind the recent flurry of activity vary. With crude (and thus prices of gas exports linked to it) currently below Russias $70 budget break-even point, the Kremlin needs a catalyst to bring prices up again. In this sense the aftermath of the Georgia conflict must have been a disappointment. Despite reports of Russian bombs landing just meters away from the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline, energy prices continued dropping throughout August. Simultaneous saber-rattling rhetoric from Tehran, and suggestions by Revolutionary Guard General Mohammad Ali Jafari of a possible strike on US forces in the Strait of Hormuz, also failed to slow this downward slide. As prices continued to fall into September Russian Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin, attending OPECs Vienna meeting as an observer, suggested closer cooperation with the oil cartel, and proposed holding a meeting of the group in Moscow. After even this move failed to halt the decline in oil prices, to which most of Russias gas supply contracts are linked, a new approach was required. read more
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Dec 12th, 2008
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YUZHNO-SAKHALINSK, December 12 (RIA Novosti) - Sakhalin Energy launched year-round oil export deliveries on Friday via a new oil terminal as part of the Sakhalin II oil and gas project off Russia's Pacific Coast, the company said in a statement.
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Dec 2nd, 2008
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Foreign investors were given some serious lessons, when the state took over the Shell-led Sakhalin-2 project...
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Nov 10th, 2008
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Mitvol was appointed deputy head of the environmental regulator in April 2004, but came to international attention in late 2006 when he led a campaign against oil major Shell that resulted in a lucrative project being sold to Gazprom.
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Nov 6th, 2008
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Friday, November 07, 2008 Updated at 07 November 2008 0:11 Moscow Time.
Gazprom’s Sakhalin Energy venture began filling an oil pipeline from Sakhalin-2 that may allow it to start year-round crude production this year.
Sakhalin Energy expects the first tanker loading at the port of Prigorodnoye by the end of 2008, said Marina Makarova, the firm’s pipeline development manager.
(Bloomberg)
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Nov 1st, 2008
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Shell's traditional rival BP is a safer short-term bet. Its production growth will be faster in the short term, and the projects offer higher margins. It is also spending less to deliver that growth. This gives investors greater comfort that falling oil prices won't endanger its dividend, and might explain why BP shares have outperformed Shell's by 7pc in since the beginning of September.
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Oct 7th, 2008
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By John Donovan
7 October 2008
Shell employees will need to be even more on their guard when communicating by email or using instant messaging systems. Shell Global Security managed by Ian Forbes McCredie OBE, a former senior officer of the British Secret Service, will now have access to an archive of all such communications.
The new security monitoring systems are thought to be an attempt to stem the flow of leaked emails to what Reuters has described as the unofficial Shell website, royaldutchshellplc.com read more
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Oct 7th, 2008
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CampaignWatch October 2008

Did Shell breach the rules?
Shells input into the Sakhalin environmental audit is questioned
US-based
Pacific Environment, an environmental group that focuses on the Pacific rim, says
Royal Dutch Shell influenced a supposedly independent environmental audit to determine whether its controversial Sakhalin II energy project would get finance.
Campaigners say dozens of emails released by the UK government under the Freedom of Information Act show Shell officials in London attempted to downplay criticisms of the environmental impact of the $22bn oil and gas project off the east coast of Russia.
Shell says its input into draft reports of this kind is routine and designed to ensure accuracy, but did not affect the findings in this case.
AEA Technology, which conducted and then published the audit in November 2007,
says that although Shell and various banks made suggestions on the draft, it was under no pressure to accept them. It maintains the audit was an accurate, balanced and independent view of the project.
Campaigners such as
WWF are concerned about the effect continuous drilling at Sakhalin II, which has now received finance, will have on the endangered western grey whale.
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Sep 24th, 2008
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Gazprom's consolidated debt stood at 1.2 trillion rubles ($48 billion) at the end of 2007, up 52 percent on a year earlier, after the company acquired control both of the major Sakhalin-2 offshore project and of Moscow utility Mosenergo.
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Sep 19th, 2008
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SOCHI, Russia, Sept 19 (Reuters) - Royal Dutch Shell plans a new exploration project in Russia and is considering three oil fields in Kalmykia in the Urals as possible sites, a source familiar with the plans said on Friday.
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Sep 5th, 2008
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Plans by energy giants BP and Gazprom to exchange assets in Russia and create an international alliance for investments around the world have been shelved.
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Sep 1st, 2008
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businessGreen.com

Greenwash Champions
Energy giant accused of leaning on authors of independent environmental report to help secure financial backing for controversial oil and gas extraction project
Tom Young, BusinessGreen, 01 Sep 2008
Royal Dutch Shell is facing allegations that it was heavy handed in influencing a supposedly independent environmental report on one of the world’s largest oil and gas extraction projects.
A report in The Observer yesterday cited email evidence that allegedly shows Shell looked to downplay some of the environmental criticism included in the review of the $22bn Sakhalin II Project in Russia which has now received the bulk of the funding it required for work on the project to begin. read more
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Aug 26th, 2008
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This article relates the saga of the Sakhalin II project, one of the earliest of the Russian production sharing agreements.
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Aug 23rd, 2008
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In one of the most blatant instances, Shell Oil was forced to yield control of its operations off Sakhalin Island in exchange for a payment of $7.4 billion from state-dominated Gazprom. Most outside analysts estimate that Shell's share was worth $15 billion to $17 billion.
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Aug 16th, 2008
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Gazprom wrested control of the $22 billion Sakhalin-2 oil and gas project from Royal Dutch Shell for a fraction of market value.
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Aug 12th, 2008
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Deliveries from the Sakhalin-2 project to customers in Japan and South Korea were postponed to early next year from the middle of 2008, Platts said.
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Aug 4th, 2008
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Two years ago, the company was forced to surrender control of the huge Sakhalin-II oil field to Gazprom in what was seen as part of a wider move by the Kremlin to renationalise its resource assets.
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Aug 4th, 2008
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Shell declined to comment, but a spokesman said the company had "learned our lesson in Russia" after the forced sale of half its stake in the $22bn Sakhalin-II oil and liquefied natural gas field, off Russia's east coast, in 2006 to state-owned Gazprom.
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Jul 15th, 2008
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Mr Mitvol had led the pressure on Royal Dutch Shell over its Sakhalin 2 oil and gas project off the east coast of Russia, which led to it having to cede control in the project to Gazprom.
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Jul 13th, 2008
by John Donovan.
Cook joined the Shell board in 2004 in the aftermath of the embarrassing reserves scandal that cost chairman Sir Phil Watts and finance director Judy Boynton their jobs. She was devastated by the shake-up, having liked and respected Watts, but she refused to be deflected by the upheaval, choosing instead to get on with the job.
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Jul 5th, 2008
by John Donovan.
GOOD things come to those who wait. No pain, no gain. Every cloud has a silver lining. For investors in Royal Dutch Shell in need of a pep talk, these might be clichés worth repeating.
There is a chance however remote that growth might come inorganically, says ABN Amro, describing a merger with BP or Total as "possible and desirable"
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Jul 3rd, 2008
by John Donovan.
The truth is that the rule of law in Russia was mocked, not strengthened, under Vladimir Putin, and it remains a sham. It offered no more protection for Shell (squeezed out of the Sakhalin-2 gas project after being threatened with a $30 billion environmental lawsuit) or Yukos (dismantled by the Tax Ministry and sold off to Kremlin allies) than it does now for BP or 140 million ordinary Russians.
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Jun 28th, 2008
by John Donovan.
A year earlier, Royal Dutch Shell was pressured to sell a controlling stake in the worlds largest oil and natural gas development, Sakhalin-2, to Gazprom. In that case, the government cited environmental damage in a pipeline project.
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Jun 27th, 2008
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Of the 15 former Soviet republics, Kazakhstan is sitting on the sole "superfield" discovered in the last three decades. With proven reserves of 35 billion barrels, Kazakhstan potentially contains the world's third largest reserves of oil, after Saudi Arabia and Iraq.
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Jun 26th, 2008
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Jun 25th, 2008
by John Donovan.
David Greer knows about bad publicity. As deputy chief executive of Royal Dutch Shell's Sakhalin arm, running the Sakhalin-2 project off the far-east coast of Russia, he suffered the indignity of having an internal memo, which was designed to motivate his managers - "lead me, follow me, or get out of my way" - leaked to the Financial Times last year.
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Jun 24th, 2008
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Below is a compilation of information put together for certain third parties. It all relates to our involvement in the Sakhalin-2 project which led to Shell's loss of its ownership stake and the resignation of David Greer. We have published for the first time the correspondence file relating to Oleg Mitvol, the so called "Kremlin Attack Dog".
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Jun 19th, 2008
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Having bullied Shell into handing over control of its Sakhalin-2 gas field, we thought his reward would be the Order of Lenin, not a broom cupboard.
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Jun 18th, 2008
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n 2006 he gained international attention by leading a campaign against oil major Shell that led to a lucrative project being sold to Gazprom.
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