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.
Shortlist for Yamal LNG-plant
Gazprom says both Total and Shell are on the shortlist as possible partners for the planned liquefied natural gas (LNG) project on the Yamal Peninsula.
Agency France Press reports Saturday that both the two European petroleum companies Total and Shell and the two Japanese industrial groups Mitsui and Mitsubishi hold talks with Gazprom about the project.
Both Mitsui and Mitsubishi are working in cooperation with Shell on Russia’s first LGN-plant in Russia’s Far East, while Total are one Gazprom’s two foreign partners in the development company set up to construct the LNG-plant at Teriberka on the Kola Peninsula to receive the gas from the Shtokman-field in the Barents Sea. Norwegian Statoil Hydro is the other foreign partner on the Shtokman LNG-plant.
LNG can be shipped all round the world and do not depend on pipeline-systems.
