The huge Shell-led project known as Sakhalin II would be unusual anywhere, and in Russia it is unique.

这个壳牌主导的项目被称作库页岛二号。它的规模是如此庞大，在全世界都排得上号，在俄国更是空前的。

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Sakhalin II is almost finished: it is already producing oil, and LNG shipments are supposed to begin in 2008.

Sakhalin II已经基本完成：它开始产出石油，而船运lng也计划在2008年开始。

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The Sakhalin II project will produce as much as 9.6m tonnes of LNG a year, 60% of which will go to Japan, accounting for about 7% of its LNG imports.

库页岛二期工程每年将生产多达960万吨液化天然气，60%的会进入日本，约占其液化天然气的进口量的7%。

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Further complicating matters, Shell was also negotiating to trade half of its 55% stake in Sakhalin II with state-owned gas monopoly Gazprom for half of a giant natural gas field called Zapolyarnoye.

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Yesterday the state natural gas monopoly, Gazprom, signed a deal to take control over the country's largest foreign investment, the massive Sakhalin II Gas Complex in the Russian Far East.

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