Mixed Russia messages threaten oil investment

The mixed messages Russia is sending about the future of some of its biggest foreign-led oil and natural gas projects threaten to undermine international investment even if Moscow fails to act on many of its threats, oil executives and analysts say.

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Shell: Shell Exploration and Production: Sakhalin II http://www.shell.com/home/PrintFramework?siteId=eandp-en&FC3=/home/eandp-en/html/iwgen/major_projects/sakhalin_project/major_project_sakhalin_190805.html

BBC News, 28.5.07: BP closer to losing its gas field http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6697519.stm

BBC News, 20.5.08: Russia police raid BP Moscow base http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7410674.stm

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