MOSCOW, Oct 2 (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putinwill meet Royal Dutch Shell Chief Executive Ben van Beurden inMoscow this week, Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov told reporters onTuesday.
Ushakov said Putin and the Shell boss will discuss theSakhalin-2 liquefied natural gas (LNG) project on Russia'sPacific coast, where Shell is a minority shareholder, and a planto build an LNG plant on Russia's Baltic coast. Shell andRussian gas giant Gazprom last year signed a memorandum ofunderstanding to work together on the plant.(Reporting by Vladimir Soldatkin; writing by Christian Lowe;editing by Polina Devitt)