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Publish date: August 10, 2005
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According to Gazprom press service, nine foreign companies have provided technical and commercial offers to develop Stockman gas field and construct a gas plant. These are three American companies ChevronTexaco, ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil USA; two Norwegian Hydro and Statoil; two Japanese Mitsui and Sumitomo, and also English-Dutch Shell and French Total.
American company Sempra Energy USA has also provided their offer to tribute the gas from Stockman field abroad.
Stockman gas deposit is located in the central part of the Barents Sea. Today its stocks are estimated at 3.2 billion cubic metres of gas and 31 million tonnes of condensate. Gazprom plans to adjust deliveries of liquefied natural gas Stockman of a deposit to Northern America and, possibly, to Europe.
Gazprom experts are now carrying out the analysis and an estimation of these offers with the purpose of definition of the short list for carrying out precontract negotiations.
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.
In this news digest, we monitor events that impact the environment in the Russian Arctic. Our focus lies in identifying the factors that contribute to pollution and climate change.