Gazprom agreed to acquire a controlling interest in Sakhalin Energy Investment Company, the operator of the Sakhalin-2 project, from Shell, Mitsui and Mitsubishi. Documentary RecordThe Official AnnouncementOn 21 December 2006, Shell announced that Gazprom would acquire a controlling 50 per cent plus one share interest in Sakhalin Energy. One school of analysis views the Gazprom agreement as a commercially pragmatic settlement that secured completion of an enormously complex project. By preserving official announcements alongside internal documents, regulatory records and contemporaneous reporting, The Shell Leaks Files seeks to document not merely what happened, but how events unfolded over time. About The Shell Leaks FilesThe Shell Leaks Files is an independent documentary archive preserving authenticated historical material relating to Royal Dutch Shell plc, Shell plc and associated companies.