Gazprom, Shell Mull Strategic Cooperation
At a meeting between Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee, and Ben van Beurden, Chief Executive Officer of Shell which took place in St. Petersburg yesterday the prospects for collaboration between the companies under the Agreement of Strategic Cooperation were deliberated on. An emphasis was placed on a potential asset swap.
The meeting also reviewed the ongoing front-end engineering design (FEED) process for the third production train of the LNG plant within the Sakhalin II project.
The participants discussed in depth the progress of the Nord Stream 2 project.
According to Gazprom it was on June 18, 2015, that both Gazprom and Shell had signed an Agreement of Strategic Cooperation. The document provides for the partnership between the two companies across all segments of the gas industry, from upstream to downstream, including in the form of a potential asset swap.
A liquefied natural gas (LNGLF) (LNG) plant was brought into operation as part of the Sakhalin II project. It is the only LNG plant in Russia. The Sakhalin II operator is Sakhalin Energy Investment Company Ltd. (Gazprom – 50 per cent plus one share, Shell – 27.5 per cent minus one share, Mitsui – 12.5 per cent, and Mitsubishi (MBI.F) – 10 per cent). On June 18, 2015, Gazprom and Shell signed a Memorandum to construct the third production train of the LNG plant.
On September 4, 2015, Gazprom, BASF, E.ON, ENGIE, OMV, and Shell inked the Shareholders Agreement to construct the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline system with the annual capacity of 55 billion cubic meters from Russia to Germany across the Baltic Sea.
