MOSCOW, June 27 (RIA Novosti) - Gazprom expects its shelf reserves to grow by 2.3 trillion cubic meters of gas and 191 million metric tons of oil in 2006-2010, the company said Tuesday.
Gazprom said it intends to build up its oil reserves by 45 million tons (903,698 bbl/d) at the Prirazlomnoye oilfield in the Barents Sea, and by 146 million tons (2.9 million bbl/d) at the Dolginskoye offshore block in the Pechora Sea, also in Russia's Far North.
The state-owned energy giant plans to increase gas reserves by 600 billion cubic meters at the Yamburg gas deposit in the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Area and by 720 billion cubic meters in promising sections in the north of the Ob River in Siberia.
Gazprom expects further to expand its gas reserves - already among the world's largest - by 300 billion cubic meters of gas on the Priyamal shelf in the South Kara Sea in Russia's Arctic by 2010.
Since Gazprom started work on the shelf, it has opened four gas deposits in the mouth of the Ob and Tazov Rivers in West Siberia with total reserves of 860 billion cubic meters. By 2010, the company plans to complete exploration of the giant Shtokman gas condensate deposit in the Barents Sea, as well as the Prirazlomnoye and Dolginskoye deposits.
Earlier reports said Gazprom expects gas reserves at the Shtokman deposit to grow by 700 billion cubic meters by 2010.
