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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. read more

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