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Mon 07 Jul 2007Rosneft, Shell sign co-operation dealRussian oil firm Rosneft said today that it had entered a broad partnership with Royal Dutch/Shell to co-operate in oil production and refining in Russia and elsewhere."The agreement (with Shell) reached today will allow our companies to seriously widen the scope and geography of our work," Sergei Bogdanchikov, president of state-controlled Rosneft, said in a statement.