≡ Shell Forced To Capitulate To Putin
A two-part deal — one publicized on December 21 and thereafter, the other confidential but leaked by Moscow on December 28 — has sealed Gazprom’s seizure of the majority stake in the Royal Dutch Shell-led oil and gas project Sakhalin-2. Shell, hitherto the project operator, surrendered under the threat of multibillion-dollar environmental-damage suits and revocation […]
