By Ilya Arkhipov and Stephen Bierman – Dec 29, 2010 5:18 PM GMT
OAO Gazprom, Russias gas export monopoly, and Royal Dutch Shell Plc may build a third train to produce liquefied natural gas at their $22 billion Sakhalin-2 venture by 2015, the regional governor said.
The two companies may alternatively build a new LNG plant, Alexander Khoroshavin, the governor of the Sakhalin region, told Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in a meeting today, according to Khoroshavins press service. A third train at the Sakhalin-2 project may boost capacity by 5 million metric tons, he said.