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Publish date: May 15, 2006
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British Centrica is looking for new perspective gas suppliers, as its main gas field to be depleted in the nearest future. Gazprom can become such a supplier, RusEnergy reported.
Nowadays Gazprom supplies Britain with 2% of gas via continental gas pipelines, but the company intends to increase its supplies by 20%. The goal can be achieved if Gasprom sells gas to Great Britain on basic of long term contracts. Another way to achieve this goal for Gasprom is to buy a gas distribution company in the UK.
“We are in the process of preliminary negotiations with various companies, including Gasprom, as we are oriented to the level of needs we will have in a couple of years”, a representative of Centrica said.
A survey of events in the field of nuclear and radiation safety relating to Russia and Ukraine.
Kazakhstan voted in a referendum last weekend on whether to build its first nuclear power plant, and an exit poll showed voters backed the idea promoted by President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev's cabinet in an effort to phase out coal plants.
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