Rosneft, Gazprom in talks with Japanese cos on joint projects
MOSCOW. May 5 (Interfax) - Russian state-owned oil and gas companies Rosneft and Gazprom are in talks with Japanese companies on the possible joint implementation of upstream and downstream projects, Russian presidential aide Yury Ushakov told reporters.
"Rosneft and Gazprom are in talks with Japanese companies on the joint implementation of new projects in the production and processing of hydrocarbons," he said.
Rosneft's president, Igor Sechin, at the Russia-Japan Energy Bridge conference in Tokyo in November last year invited Japanese companies to join oil and gas production projects on the shelf of Sakhalin Island, not far from the fields of the Sakhalin-1 project, the Astrakhanovskoye More-Nekrasovsky, Kaigansko-Vasyukanskoye More and Deryuginsky blocks; active fields in Eastern Siberia and the Far East, including Verkhnechon, Srednebotuobinskoye, Tagul, Russkoye and others; and special projects, such as the expansion of production at existing fields using methods to increase oil recovery rates and development of gas fields (Kharampur, Kynsko-Chaselnoye, Russko-Rechenskoye) and the prospective gas project Pechora LNG.
Sechin also proposed Japanese shipbuilders such as Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding, Sumitomo Heavy Industries, Kawasaki Shipbuilding and manufacturers of ship equipment have an opportunity to join Russian shipbuilding projects, above all the Zvezda shipbuilding complex; and that Japanese companies might look at the possibilities for delivering equipment for the Eastern Petrochemical Complex.
Gazprom and Mitsubishi are discussing joint marketing of liquefied gas to be produced by a third train of the Sakhalin-2 LNG plant.
