Sakhalin Energy Federation, represented by the government of the Russian Federation and the Sakhalin Oblast Government. In 2007, Shell sold part of its stake to Gazprom which made Gazprom the largest shareholder with 50% share of the company. In November 2009, Sakhalin Energy joined the United Nations Global Compact. Sakhalin Energy develops the Piltun-Astokhskoye and the Lunskoye oil and gas fields, known as the Sakhalin-II project, in the Sea of Okhotsk, offshore Sakhalin island in the Russian Far East. The infrastructure of the Sakhalin-II project includes: February 2017 marked eight years since the first LNG plant in Russia was officially launched. Russia
Crown corporations of Canada the public that otherwise would not be economically viable as a private enterprise, or don't fit exactly within the scope of any ministry. They are involved in everything from the distribution, use, and price of certain goods and services to energy development, resource extraction, public transportation, cultural promotion, and property management. In Canada, Crown corporations, within either the federal or provincial spheres, are owned by the monarch, as the institution's sole legal shareholder; this follows the legal premise that the Crown, as an institution, owns all the property of state. Crown corporations although owned in right of the Crown, are