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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.
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.
In this news digest, we monitor events that impact the environment in the Russian Arctic. Our main focus lies in identifying the factors that contribute to pollution risks and climate change.