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.
