Preparing for exploration off Yamal
A Russian government service is to evaluate a report on the exploration of the shelf west of the Yamal Peninsula.
The Russian Service on Ecological, Technological and Nuclear control is to conduct a state evaluation of materials on the mapping of the waters west of the Yamal Peninsula, the government body informs on its website.
The waters outside Yamal are along with the Kara Sea believed to contain major amounts of hydrocarbons, and first of all natural gas. Gazprom is currently in the process of developing land-based fields in the Yamal Peninsula. Those fields, among them the huge Bovanenkovo field, could pave the way also for offshore developments.
It is Gazprom which has the licenses to the fields in the area.
The Ministry of Natural Resources will in the course of February publish a report on the development of the Russian shelf, RIA Novosti reports.
