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Russia Launches Environmental Probe into Total’s Siberian Oil Field

Russia’s environmental and technological watchdog has launched a routine probe into the Kharyaga oil field operated by France’s Total in northern Russia, the agency said on Tuesday, March 13.

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March 14, 2007

Gazprom Buys Control in Shell’s Sakhalin Project

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Russia’s gas monopoly Gazprom will buy 50 percent plus one share in Sakhalin-2 oil and gas project for $7.45 billion, Shell said on Thursday.

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December 21, 2006

Russia Hires Greenpeace Lawyer to Prepare Case Against Shell’s Sakhalin Project

The British lawyer who represented Greenpeace in the battle with Shell over the disposal of the Brent Spar oil platform has been hired by Russia to prepare a case against the Anglo-Dutch oil company over problems at its development project on Sakhalin Island in the country’s Far East.

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December 15, 2006

Russian Environment Agency Chief Moves to Fire Outspoken Deputy

The head of Russia’s environment watchdog has proposed firing his deputy, who led a recent crackdown on a vast Shell-run hydrocarbon project in Russia, a source in the federal service said Thursday, RIA Novosti agency repots.

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December 14, 2006

Russia Sets Deadline for Shell’s Sakhalin Project Repairs

Russia has set a deadline of February 1 for Shell’s Sakhalin-2 project to repair environmental damage or face the loss of its operating licences, the RIA Novosti news agency reported citing a Russian federal agency.

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December 13, 2006

Shell Project in Russia Scrutinized

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Russian prosecutors have uncovered more than 100 violations of environmental, labor and migration law at a giant oil and liquefied natural gas project run by Royal Dutch Shell PLC on the Russian island of Sakhalin, according to an report Wednesday.

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December 6, 2006