Gazprom confirms deadlines for shelf projects
Gazprom’s board of directors in yesterday’s meeting underlined that the Prirazlomnoe field will be in production from 2011 and the Shtokman field from 2013. The company board also highlighted the need for the government’s support to the shelf projects.
The board of directors headed by First Deputy Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov in the meeting requested the company management to continue preparations for the launch of the Prirazlomnoe field in 2011 and the Shtokman field in 2013. The Kirinskoe field in the Russian far east is then to be launched in 2014.
The meeting delegates also requested the company management keep up contact with the federal government in order to secure state support to shelf projects, as well as to prepare an action plan on shelf specialist training and organizational facilitation of the activities, a press release from Gazprom reads.
Gazprom today has 13 offshore licenses on the Russian shelf. Russia’s hydrocarbon shelf resources are estimated to 90,4 billion tons of oil equivalents, of which about 70 percent are located in the Barents Sea, the Kara Sea and the Pechora Sea.
