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Publish date: September 21, 2006
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Sevmash plant in Severodvinsk and Norwegian Aker (the plant designer) are preparing to receive the contract on modules fabrication for the LNG plant, portnews.ru reported.
The head of Sevmash press department Mikhail Starozhilov said that implementation of this project is the best alternative to load capacity after completing the four offshore platforms of Prirazlomnaya type in the end of 2006.
The completed modules should be shipped by sea to Kharasevey port for further installation, added Starozhilov. Gasprom has not announced yet the concrete plans on implementation of liquefied natural gas plant on the Yamal Peninsula.
Recent attacks on Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant "mark the beginning of a new and gravely dangerous front of the war," the UN atomic agency's director general said last week.
After years of inaction, Germany is working on its Carbon Management Strategy to resolve how CCS can play a role in climate action in industry. At the end of February, the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action published first key points and a proposal to amend the law Kohlenstoffdioxid Speicherungsgesetz (KSpG). Bellona Deutschland, who was actively involved in the previous stakeholder dialogue submitted a statement in the association hearing.
In the midst of a global discussion on whether natural gas should be used as a transitional fuel and whether emissions from its extraction, production, transport and use are significantly less than those from other fossil fuels, Russia has developed ambitious plans to increase its own production of liquified natural gas (LNG) in the Arctic – a region with 75% of proven gas reserves in Russia – to raise its share in the international gas trade.
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