“We continue to work on the implementation of our intention to withdraw from the Sakhalin Energy Investment Company in accordance with applicable law and existing agreements,” he said in a comment to TASS.
The interlocutor of the agency quoted the head of Shell, Ben van Beurden, who called it an unlikely opportunity to enter the Russian company, which could receive a stake in Sakhalin Energy.
According to him, this is not in line with Shell's intention to leave Russia.
In April, the Financial Times reported that British-Dutch oil and gas group Shell had initiated a "painful exit" from Russia's Sakhalin-2 energy project.
Later it became known that LUKOIL was buying Shell's subsidiary in Russia, which owns a network of filling stations and a lubricants plant.