Salym Petroleum is a joint venture between Anglo-Dutch supermajor Shell and Russia's Evikhon, which in turn is controlled by UK-listed Sibir Energy.
Salym Petroleum has been developing the West Salym, Upper Salym and Vadelyp fields in the Khanty-Mansiysk autonomous region of west Siberia in Russia since 2004, with strong technical and management support and supervision from Shell.
Shell and its partner Evikhon won the development licence for the three fields in 1993, which together hold estimated reserves of 1.1
