Murmansk university could get Shtokman training centre

Deputy Head of the Sevmorneftegaz company, Mr. Rudolf Ter-Sarkisov, in the meeting highlighted the strategic task of getting enough specialists for the complex project. He proposed to establish a new training centre under the Murmansk Technical University. According to the press centre of the Murmansk city administration, the three Shtokman partners – Gazprom, Total and StatoilHydro – have agreed to elaborate a programme for the training of personnel. City mayor Mikhail Savchenko proposed to the Shtokman consortium to assign the elaboration of the programme to a representative of StatoilHydro. He believes the programme should be based on experiences from the Norwegian towns of Hammerfest and Stavanger.