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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Sakhalin II operator begins oil exports via new terminal
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Construction of 800 kilometer pipeline completed on Sakhalin
Itar Tass reported that the construction of an 800 kilometer oil and gas pipeline by the Sakhalin Energy Company has been completed.
Sakhalin Energy says pipeline from Sea of Okhotsk completed
Published: Nov. 7, 2008 at 3:06 PM
PRIGORODNOYE, Russia, Nov. 7 (UPI) — A 496-mile Russian oil and gas pipeline from the Sea of Okhotsk to Prigorodnoye is on line and has begun operations, an energy company official said.
Marina Makarova, manager in charge of the pipeline at Sakhalin Energy Co., said the pipeline, which began filling with gas and oil Thursday, is scheduled to receive its first tanker for shipment by the end of the year, Itar-Tass reported.
Within a month, it should be pumping oil from offshore deposits in the Sea of Okhotsk to Prigorodnoye, located on the Mereya River, the report said.
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Sakhalin II Corruption Allegations first reported on RoyalDutchShellPlc.com published in House of Commons Report
Corruption Allegations Allegations have been made by a whistleblower of inappropriate relationships between SEIC management and its contractors, in particular Starstroi and its subcontractor SU4. (22)
Sakhalin Energy’s Pipeline
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)
Russia to Become Key Player in World LNG Over Next 10 Years
On Oct. 16, 2007 on Shell Safety Day, the new prestigious annual Shell Chief Executives HSE Award was presented to the Sakhalin Energy LNG/OET Project Team.
Sakhalin Whales Panel Faults Gas Venture
LONDON -(Dow Jones)- A scientific panel report released Friday revealed ongoing concerns that the Sakhalin-II oil and gas joint venture hasn't complied with all of recommendations on the protection of the endangered Western Gray Whale.
Russian plans for Sakhalin-2 gas a complete surprise for Shell
Gazprom Deputy CEO Alexander Ananenkov noted that Sakhalin-3s gas could be not enough to satisfy the regions needs, in which case gas from Sakhalin-2 could go to the Sakhalin-Khabarovsk-Vladivostok pipeline instead of being exported. This proposal was a complete surprise for Maxim Shub, who represents Shell in Russia.
Japan banks set to extend loans to Sakhalin-2 project
TOKYO, June 3 (Reuters) - The state-run Japan Bank for International Cooperation and four private banks are in final talks to co-finance loans to back the Sakhalin-2 liquefied natural gas project, the JBIC said on Tuesday.
Dow Jones Newswires: Shell Manager Warned Of Sakhalin Faults, Gas Risk-Email
Dow Jones Newswires
16 Oct 2006 15:35 CEDT
LONDON (Dow Jones)–A Royal Dutch Shell (RDSB.LN) manager sent e-mails in 2002 expressing concern that the designs for oil and gas wells on Russia’s Sakhalin Island didn’t properly address seismic risks.
The e-mails from Hans Bouman, a natural-gas field manager, to Engel Van Spronsen, then Sakhalin Energy’s technical director, raise the possibility that the company’s risks at the Sakhalin II project go beyond the river bank erosion now under Russian government scrutiny.
Shell considers third train at Sakhalin-2
UPI Energy Watch: Shell considers third train at Sakhalin-2
“A huge and diverse array of technical and environmental challenges have surrounded the project, including the need to reroute offshore pipelines to bypass feeding grounds for an endangered species of whale. In July, the Sakhalin Energy partners announced a massive revision to the project budget — to $20 billion from $10 billion — and a delay to first LNG deliveries.”
Wednesday 19 October 2005
Intl. Intelligence
By ANDREA R. MIHAILESCU
United Press International
Shell and Japanese partners Mitsui and Mitsubishi are evaluating options for a third train at their Sakhalin-2 LNG development on Russia’s Pacific Shelf.
Gas to supply a third train could come from a variety of sources, David Greer, deputy chief executive of Sakhalin Energy, the project operating company, said last Thursday during a presentation to an industry gathering in Scotland.
“The issue is getting the additional gas that would be required,” Greer said. “We are looking at deeper prospects in (the) Lunskoye (gas field). We have some space for a third train. It will be a question of earmarking the most appropriate reserves.” But a third train “wouldn’t be available much before 2012,” he said.
Lloyds List: Shell suffers further delays at Sakhalin II
Lloyds List: Shell suffers further delays at Sakhalin II
“In July, Shell said capital costs in Sakhalin II have doubled to $20bn because of a raft of issues including the new pipeline routes, increasing contractor costs and changes in project requirements. It has already pulled back first deliveries of liquefied natural gas from the project into 2008.”
Thursday Aug 04, 2005
ROYAL Dutch Shell could possibly face further delays to year-round oil production at the key Sakhalin II project in eastern Russia, writes Martyn Wingrove .
The Anglo-Dutch oil major has already said year-round oil output would be put back to the end of 2007 because of problems laying the onshore pipeline across the island’s icy terrain.
Mitsubishi, a Japanese investor in the project, said the delays could be extended into 2008 because Sakhalin Energy Investment will have to re-route offshore pipelines to avoid a whale breeding area.
Moscow Times: Gazprom Rethinks Value of Sakhalin-2
Moscow Times: Gazprom Rethinks Value of Sakhalin-2
Tuesday 19 July 2005
Gas giant Gazprom said on Friday it considered Royal Dutch/Shell’s assets on Sakhalin to be worth less after the oil major doubled the project’s cost estimates last week to $20 billion.
Earlier this month, Gazprom agreed to swap a 50 percent stake in its Siberian Zapolyarnoye gas field for a 25 percent stake in the Shell-led Sakhalin-2 liquefied natural gas project in the Far East.
On Thursday, Shell raised the cost estimate for Sakhalin-2 and postponed the first LNG shipment from the end of 2007 to summer 2008.
BLOOMBERG: Shell Sakhalin Project Cost Soars, Deliveries Late
BLOOMBERG: Shell Sakhalin Project Cost Soars, Deliveries Late
“Royal Dutch/Shell Group’s oil and gas project in Russia’s Far East may cost $20 billion, 67 percent more than originally planned…”
Thursday 14 July 2005
July 14 (Bloomberg) — Royal Dutch/Shell Group’s oil and gas project in Russia’s Far East may cost $20 billion, 67 percent more than originally planned, because of soaring metal prices and contractor fees and a declining U.S. dollar.
Deliveries of liquefied natural gas are now expected to start in the summer of 2008, the company said in a statement today, some eight months behind schedule. The project at Sakhalin island is the largest foreign direct investment anywhere in Russia. Shell shares pared gains in London after the statement.
Shell strikes US$6B deal to ship Russian liquefied gas to North America
Canadian Press: Shell strikes US$6B deal to ship Russian liquefied gas to North America
“The deal is the first that would funnel Russian LNG to the United States, whose demand for natural gas is surging as domestic supply dwindles.”
Thursday, October 14, 2004
MOSCOW (CP) – A consortium led by Royal Dutch/Shell Group that is developing gas reserves off Russia’s Sakhalin Island said Thursday it has struck a $6-billion-US deal to supply liquefied natural gas, or LNG, to energy-hungry North America.
Sakhalin Energy Investment Ltd., operator of the Sakhalin-2 project, said it signed an agreement to ship 37 million tonnes of LNG to a regasification terminal in Mexico.
Shell, which is building the Energia Costa Azul terminal in Baja California with California’s Sempra Energy, is the buyer of the gas.
Oil, gas ease an old enmity
THE WASHINGTON TIMES: Oil, gas ease an old enmity
“Sakhalin II, led by Royal Dutch Shell and with 45 percent Japanese ownership, has broken ground for the world’s biggest liquefied natural gas plant at Prigorodnye, southern Sakhalin.”
By Lucille Craft
Posted 13 Sept 04
TOKYO — Hostile and prickly neighbors for much of the past century, Japan and Russia are rapidly drawing closer, at least below the surface, propelled in part by Japan’s extreme energy vulnerability in an era of Middle East turbulence.
In one of the strangest legacies of World War II, Russia and Japan have never managed to sign a peace treaty officially ending hostilities that ceased in fact nearly 60 years ago. All that stands in the way are four tiny islands off the coast of northeastern Japan.
Shell-led Russia venture to monitor rare whales
Date: 19-Aug-04
Country: RUSSIA
Author: Maria Golovnina
The International Whaling Commission passed a motion last month saying energy exploration could kill off the 100 or so remaining grey whales on the oil-rich shelf near Russia’s Pacific coast and asked for some surveys to stop.
Sakhalin Energy Investment Company Ltd., operator of the multi-billion dollar Sakhalin-2 project, described its monitoring plan as “the most comprehensive and largest whale project funded solely by industry for whales anywhere in the world.”
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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