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Publish date: November 14, 2006
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According to the Barents secretariat, a big group of representatives of the Russian Government, oil companies, oil terminals, ports and scientists, working in the field of Norwegian industry management will participate in the conference.
This conference is the first big meeting after Gazprom has announced that no foreign company would be a partner of Shtokman field development, B-port reports. The main subject of the conference is demands to the Russian oil and gas industry on logistics and fields development in Arctic Seas, and the tasks for Russian and Norwegian shippers.
This conference is a part of the European project “The Northern Marine Corridor”, which includes seven European countries. The project is being carried out since 2002. It is directed on more effective development of marine navigation conception in the Northern, The Norwegian and the Barents Seas.
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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