Gazpromshelf is looking for a 50 hectare large area to build a plant for concrete coating of the large amounts of pipes that will be need for the giant Shtokman gas project in the Barents Sea.
Recently a group of officials led by General Director Alexander Mandel visited Kandalaksha on the Kola Peninsula to consider the possibilities for building the plant there, B-port writes, citing the newspaper Niva.
Among the competitors for the location are Arkhangelsk, Murmansk and several places in Norway. Kandalaksha has a good chance of winning, as the region already has a well-developed infrastructure like harbors, railway and machine building capacities. In addition, Gazpromshelf is ”categorically against the location of this kind of plant outside of Russia”, the web-site writes.
