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Publish date: October 21, 2008
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The sum is sufficient for an entire evaluation of the project, including seismic work, test drilling, and interpretation of results, said analysts. They further added that the sum may also cover the cost of a drilling platform, the average cost of a floating drilling platform being $300 million.
For the first stage of the project, no less than $10 million is required, according to analysis by ConocoPhillips. Investment in the project have reached $20 million, b-port.com reported. Alexander Shtok, director of the independent consulting group Due Dilligence, said that in conditions of financial crisis it will be difficult for the Shtokman Development company to find capital, the Ros Business Consulting newswire reported.
However, developing the field is one of Russian state gas giant Gazprom’s most important tasks because many of the company’s other fields are depleted and failure to find new fields could break the company. There is therefore no doubt that the Gazprom monopoly will use every means at its disposal to succeed in the Shtokman field.
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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