April 3 (Reuters) - Russian gas company Novatek said on Monday it had submitted an application to
acquire a stake in Sakhalin Energy, the operator of the Far East
Sakahlin-2 gas project, the Interfax news agency reported.
Shell said it would quit Sakhalin-2, in which it
held a stake worth 27.5% minus one share, last year before
President Vladimir Putin seized full control of the plant,
saying he would require Shell and two Japanese trading companies
Mitsui and Mitsubishi, to apply to keep their stakes in the
project, if they wanted to.
Moscow invited firms interested in obtaining Shell's stake -
as well as Exxon Mobil's abandoned share in the sister
Sakahlin-1 project - to submit applications to the government.
(Reporting by Reuters)
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