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Publish date: January 16, 2007
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Oil and gas fields in the Barents Sea, Yamal Peninsula and its shelf are to be very important for the company in the nearest future, RIA Novosti reports.
Gazprom is expected to produce 674 billion cubic meters of gas a year. The company must put in operation new oil and gas fields to achieve this goal. The Shtokman field and several fields in the western Siberia (including Yamal Peninsula and its shelf fields) are among them.
Following Kazakhstan’s country-wide vote in favor of building a nuclear power plant earlier this month, Russia’s state nuclear corporation Rosatom has begun a courtship of officialdom in Astana, the country’s capital, in apparent hopes of landing a contract to construct it.
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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