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Publish date: August 23, 2006
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According to Stoltenberg, participation of Norwegian companies in the Consortium will assist “straightening of cooperation between Russia and Norway and cooperation between both companies”.
Explaining reasons for delays in defining participants of the Shtokman project, Stoltenberg mentioned, that “world of oil industry history knows many examples, when it took long time to make decisions on large scale projects”. Snøhvit project, located in Norwegian part of the Barents Sea is an example of a long-time decision making.
Last year Gazprom presented a list of potential partners of Shtokman field development. The list includes both Norwegian Statoil and Hydro companies, American Chevron and Conoco and French Total. Gazprom had failed to announce the final partners, what was planned for April 2006. After several delays during the year, the matter is still open, Port.news reports.
Shtokman gas condensate field is located in the central part of the Russian sector of the Barents Sea. Its reserves are estimated to be 3.7 billion cubic meters of gas and about 31 million of gas condensate.
Throughout the past year, our mission at the Bellona Environmental Transparency Center has focused on two key, but intertwined issues—nuclear and radiation safety as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine drags on, and the worldwide influence of Rosatom, Russia’s state nuclear corporation, which itself is actively involved in the war and has participated in the occupation of a Ukrainian nuclear power plant.
At the beginning of the year, reports in the German and Russian press suggested an approximate 70% increase in uranium imports from Russia to Germany in 2024. But does this reflect broader European trends? It does not. Overall, imports of uranium and nuclear fuel from Russia to Western countries actually dropped sharply in 2024. Unlike the situation in Germany, this is already an established trend.
A Lingen, Germany plant could begin producing nuclear fuel in cooperation with a subsidiary of Rosatom, Russia's state nuclear corporation, which is directly involved in the war in Ukraine and occupying the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.
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