ST PETERSBURG, Russia, April 10 (Reuters) - Royal DutchShell has decided to exit the Baltic liquefied naturalgas (LNG) project led by Russian gas producer Gazpromin the Leningrad region, the chairman of Shell's Russian unitsaid on Wednesday.
"Following Gazprom's announcement on March 29 regarding thefinal development concept of Baltic LNG, we have decided to stopour involvement in this project," Cederic Cremers, ShellRussia's chairman, said.
Shell said earlier on Wednesday it was studying the possibleimplications of a recent decision by Gazprom to move towards thefull integration of its Baltic LNG and gas processing plants.(Reporting by Vladimir Soldatkin; Writing by Tom Balmforth;editing by Kirsten Donovan)