MOSCOW (MRC) -- Russia will give all the necessary support to Shell in the Anglo-Dutch supermajor’s projects in the country, said Upstreamonline, citing President Vladimir Putin.
Putin, under pressure from international powers over continued destabilisation in Ukraine, met with Shell’s chief executive Ben van Beurden in Moscow on Friday.
"I am very pleased that your company plans to expand its area of activities in Russia," Russian news agency Itar-Tass quoted the president as saying to van Beurden. The president’s office carried photographs of the meeting.
"Either along agreements with your partners or during the implementation of your own projects in Russia, we will render all the necessary administrative support or any other form of assistance," Putin continued.
Shell has a large presence in oil and gas-rich Russia, including at the Sakhalin-2 project off the country’s far eastern region.
"We are proud both about our Sakhalin-2 project and cooperation with Russia in general," van Beurden said. "During our latest meeting with (Gazprom chief executive) Alexei Miller, we came to a conclusion that we need to continue developing this project."
As MRC wrote before, Shell and Gazprom Neft have kicked off pilot shale oil exploration under their joint venture partnership in Siberia. The pair’s Russia-based joint venture Salym Petroleum Development said it had started drilling the first of five pilot horizontal wells this year and next year.
Royal Dutch Shell plc is an Anglo-Dutch multinational oil and gas company headquartered in The Hague, Netherlands and with its registered office in London, United Kingdom. It is the biggest company in the world in terms of revenue and one of the six oil and gas "supermajors". Shell is vertically integrated and is active in every area of the oil and gas industry, including exploration and production, refining, distribution and marketing, petrochemicals, power generation and trading.
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