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According to today’s Nezavisimaya Gazeta daily, at the meeting of the Mining Committee of the North-West Federal District that was dedicated to Arctic shelf development general director of FGUP “Arktikmorneftegazrazvedka”, Oleg Mantsakanyan, informed that OJSC “Gazprom” night fail to start gas supply from Shtokman gas condensate field as scheduled. Mnatsakanyan said, “My forecast is 2014 as very optimistic and 2021 as too pessimistic, so I would say it is something in between”. “The order for a drilling platform needs to be placed, the platform needs to be built, wells need to be drilled, and it will take far more than 4-5 years. And I have no idea when they are going to start doing this. We launched shelf exploration simultaneously with Norway, and Norwegians already have its Belosnezhka operating”, he said. Answering the question about when the first gas would be produced, Mnatsakanyan said, “I am afraid, that will probably happen in my grandchildren’s life, but not in my children’s”. However, head of the Shtokman Operations Support Department of LLC “Sevmorneftegaz”, Alexander Selin, said that Shtokman gas is considered as included in the asset register of OJSC “Gazprom” from 2014.

FGUP “Arktikmorneftegazrazvedka” address: 1, Kolsky Prospekt, Murmansk 183032, Russia, Tel. : (8152) 25-46-47, 55-20-00, 55-23-00; Moscow representative office: 4, bld.1 Mamonovsky Pereulok, Moscow 103001, Russia, Tel/fax (495) 626 54 05; Oslo representative office, Road Husgata 7B 0151 Oslo, Norway, Tel.: (4722) 33- 22- 70.

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