殼牌或參與Yuzhno-Kirinskoye氣田開發

Royal Dutch Shell?is interested to take part in developing Russia’s?Yuzhno-Kirinskoye field, Chief Executive Ben van Beurden told Russia’s Vedomosti daily newspaper in an interview.

He added that expansion of the Sakhalin-2 LNG project in Russia’s Pacific Island of Sakhalin?may need gas both from that field and from the Sakhalin-1?project.

It was reported last September that Shell was in talks to join Russia’s state-controlled?Gazprom?in tapping the Yuzhno-Kirinskoye?gas field offshore Russia’s Sakhalin island.