The Russian Stockman gas field should be developed in cooperation with western partners, Russia's natural resources minister said on Wednesday.
"Unfortunately, we usually implement shelf projects very slowly...That is we need to attract global experience," Yury Trutnev said.
Stockman, with estimated reserves of 3.8 trillion cubic meters, is to feed Nord Stream, a planned gas pipeline to link Russia and the European Union via the Baltic Sea.
Trutnev also said that no Russian companies had submitted bids yet to develop the Trebs and Titov oil deposits.
The Trebs and Titov oil deposits are among the most promising in the northern Russian Timan-Pechora oil province, with reserves estimated at 78.9 million tons and 63.4 million tons of oil respectively to C1 category.
Rosneft, LUKOIL, Gazprom Neft, Bashneft and Zarubezhneft earlier expressed interest in obtaining licenses for the deposits.
MURMANSK, September 15 (RIA Novosti)
