No nuclear energy for Shtokman
StatoilHydro says the Shtokman Development AG will not use nuclear energy in the first phase of development of the enormous Barents Sea gas field.
Bengt Lie Hanssen, president for StatoilHydro Russia, told journalists at the conference Offshore-2009 in St. Petersburg that the prospects for the Shtokman development do not include nuclear energy, reports RBC.ru
Russia’s state nuclear company Rosatom has earlier said that Shtokman could be a field where a floating nuclear power plant could supply the needed electricity.
In December last year, Gazprom and Rosatom signed an agreement on cooperation in the Shtokman project, as well as in field on the Yamal Peninsula, as reported by BarentsObserver.
The deal covers cooperation on energy supplies to pipeline projects and joint research initiatives, among them on the development of competitive technology on the exploration, extraction, transport, storage and processing of gas and condensate. A joint coordination council was initiated to help follow up the agreement.
In 2007 Rosatom published a promotion brochure giving details to how floating nuclear power plants can be used for offshore oil- and gas installations in the remote Arctic oceans. BarentsObserver wrote about the technical details for such plan in October 2007.
