Post a comment
The Yamal Peninsula has seen the discovery of 11 gas and 15 oil and gas condensate fields. The aggregate reserves of Yamal’s largest fields - the Bovanenkovo, Kharasavey and Novoportovskoye fields. These account for 5,9 tcm of gas, 100.2 mln t of condensate and 227 mln t of oil.
The fields are 100-percent owned by Gazprom subsidiary Gazprom dobycha Nadym.
The Bovanenkovo field is planned to be in production in year 2011. The field will be linked with a western-bound pipeline. In addition south-bound railway line is to be connected to the field.
The Yamal Peninsula, located in Yamal-Nenets autonomous district of northwest Siberia, extends roughly 700 km and is bordered principally by the Kara Sea, Baydaratskaya Bay on the west, and by the Gulf of Ob on the east.
The peninsula is the place where traditional large-scale nomadic reindeer husbandry is best preserved in Russia. On the peninsula, several thousand Nenets and Khanty reindeer herders hold about 500,000 domestic reindeer.
Putin welcomes Qatar in LNG project on Yamal
Entrance to Yamal from the city of Salekhard
Photo: Thomas Nilsen
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has endorsed a proposal by French oil major Total to invite Qatar to join major gas projects on Russia's Yamal, Total's chief Christophe de Margerie said.
After a meeting with Russia’s Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in Paris last week Total's President Christophe de Margerie said that he had told Putin that the Qatar government wants to be partner with Novatek in the Yamal LNG project, Reuters.com reports. - Putin is totally in favour of it, de Margerie said. - He said on commercial terms it is up to Novatek but as a company, as a partner I support you.
Read also: Putin promises support for foreign energy firms in Russia
Novatek plans to complete the construction of a LNG plant on the Yamal Peninsula in year 2018. The plant is to be constructed near the Yuzhno-Tambeyskoe field and have a capacity of 15-16 million tons of LNG per year.
Total bought a 49 percent stake in the Novatek owned unit set to develop the gas-field in 2009, as BarentsObserver reported.
