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The Shtokman gas and condensate field - one of the biggest offshore fields of its kind - was discovered in 1988. The field is located in the central part of the Russian sector of the Barents Sea shelf, about 600 km northeast of the city of Murmansk at sea depths varying from 320 to 340 m.
The field’s C1+C2 reserves account for 3.8 tcm of gas and circa 37 mln t of gas condensate.
The Sevmorneftegaz - a 100 percent Gazprom subsidiary - holds the license to the project. The operator company is the Shtokman Development Company, a Swiss-registered joint venture of Gazprom (51%), Total (25%) and Statoil (24%).
The Shtokman gas will be shipped partly by pipeline, partly as LNG.
According to plans, the field is to be in production from year 2016.
The village of Teriberka located northeast of Murmansk City has been chosen as the main hub for Shtokman operations.
Shtokman symphony
Natural gas is not only of high importance for the Russian economy, but also for Russia’s cultural life as the Shtokman field in the Barents Sea gets its own symphony.
The ”Shtokman symphony” is written in honor of the world’s largest offshore natural gas field located some 600 kilometers north of the Kola Peninsula in the Russian part of the Barents Sea.
23-year old Anton Lubchenko is the composer. Lubchenko lives in St. Petersburg, planned to be the new Gazprom capital in Russia. Gazprom is know as one of the mayor sponsors of Russian cultural life. The ”Shtokman symphony” composer is known for the opera he wrote dedicated to the 2004 Beslan school shoutout in North-Osetia, reports the Moscow News.
RIA Novosti reports the ”Shtokman symphony” will be a part of ”The Industrial Trilogy.” In addition to Shtokman as tema, the two others are also connected to Russia’s petroleum industry; the Sakhalin oil and gas project in the Far East and the long railway-bridge over the river Yuribei on Yamal Peninsula also holding large amounts of natural gas.
The two first part of the symphony trilogy, Yuribei and Sakhalin will be recorded this weekend in St. Petersburg, according to a press-release sent by Sinemafonika, the company producing the symphony to honor Russia’s largest industrial natural gas projects.
The composer’s task is to form an artistic image of Russia’s industrial power, reads the press-release from Sinemafonika.
RIA Novosti says the idea behind the symphony is reminiscent of Soviet-era Socialist Art.
