Today the Gazprom Headquarters has hosted a working meeting between Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee and Jeroen Van Der Veer, Chief Executive of the Royal Dutch/Shell Group of Companies.

The parties discussed Shell’s proposals stipulating Gazprom’s joining the Sakhalin-2 project.

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Shell is a British-Dutch petroleum company dealing with hydrocarbon production and processing in 8 countries of the world such as the USA, Kazakhstan, Nigeria, Brazil, Malaysia, Ireland, Russia and Canada.

Shell Sakhalin Holdings, a Royal Dutch/Shell subsidiary, owns a 55% stake in Sakhalin Energy – operator of the Sakhalin-2 project, which is also being implemented by Mitsui Sakhalin Holdings (25%) and Diamond Gas Sakhalin (20%), a Mitsubishi outlet. In addition, the project includes the development of the Piltun-Astokhskoye (to a larger extent) oil and Lunskoye (to a larger extent) gas fields with some 150 mln t of oil and over 500 bcm of gas in combined commercial reserves.