Gazprom’s LNG strategy takes major step forward

摘要

Russia’s Gazprom is to take all the capacity and a stakenof an undisclosed size in a proposed 500 MMcfdnCanadian LNG import terminal. The Rabaska deal givesnthe company a home for the LNG from its Shtokmannfield, while allowing it to hold out for better prices innother markets as it chooses. Gazprom plans to startnLNG supplies from one 7.5 million mt/year train withinnthe Shtokman project in the Barents Sea in 2014. Thenfinal investment decision on Shtokman’s phase one, tonbe developed with Total of France and StatoilHydro ofnNorway, is expected in September 2009.