Industry and Energy
Strongly criticized by environmental groups, Ministry of Petroleum and Energy announces 56 new blocks in the Barents Sea.
The Russian natural gas company will stretch its national pipeline grid to several Karelian towns located along the border to Finland.
The controversial Russian installation will spend the next two weeks along the Norwegian coast.
Lukoil drills dry and Rosneft decides to postpone further developments in the area.
Eyes on Barents
A local reflection from Blogger51 on the floating nuclear power plant which will be charged with nuclear fuel in the City of Murmansk.
No drilling for Aker BP in 2018 as risk of toxic and flammable hydrogen sulfide in the ground needs to be checked out.
The wind power station in the northern Komi town of Vorkuta consisted of six turbines and ended its days in 2006.
The world’s biggest floating installation of its kind is being tugged to the Aasta Hansteen field.
Two of the planned exploration wells are located near Norway’s maritime border to Russia, but Statoil can’t say if both will be drilled this year or next.
Amidst recent plans to explore a proposed Arctic Railway that would run from Rovaniemi in Finnish Lapland to the Norwegian port of Kirkenes, Finnish Transport Minister Anne Berner’s plans have been called into question by the National Emergency Supply Agency (NESA).
In the course of the year, more than 40 thousand tons of construction materials are planned shipped to the remote and ice-covered Russian coast.
Reactor No. 1 at Kola nuclear power plant was originally designed to work for 30 years, but will be 60.
Siste/ mest lest
It will be built by Italians and produce enough electricity for a quarter of the Murmansk population. But the Russian Arctic region might not really need it.
New fields and infrastructure allows the country to boost production and exports from the region.
Boliden will run first test-route this fall in a project with potential to radically reduce greenhouse gas emissions from mining.
The rig «Nanhai VIII» drilled in the Kara Sea and revealed one of Russia’s biggest natural gas fields.
It will boost out-shipments through the Kola Bay and be a key component in a new grand infrastructure plan.
The remote river delta could ultimately become site for one of the biggest oil terminals in the Russian Arctic.
Only ships built in Russia will be allowed to carry oil, natural gas and coal along the Northern Sea Route, a new bill proposes. But there will be exceptions, government officials say.
After more than 20 years abroad, the «Valentin Shashin» will again have Murmansk as its home port.
The first shipment of LNG from Yamal has been delivered to the South Asian country.
Lapland is especially attractive and investments in mining grew for the second year running.
No focus on the major financial challenges connected with the Murmansk Transport Hub as President Putin took at look at the development plans for the Lavna coal terminal.
The first 60 turbines will be built this year.
The remote Russian settlement will strengthen its energy security as Japanese company NEDO is ready to invest in local wind power.
Five billion kroner will be invested to secure a supply of another 21 billion cubic meters of gas.
By year 2020, the installation in the Pechora Sea will boost annual oil production to five million tons.
ExxonMobil is giving up its comprehensive Arctic cooperation with Rosneft. The Norwegians still cling on.
Less than two months after the Yamal LNG plant opened, ships carry out the first one million ton of liquified natural gas from the deep frozen waters of the Ob Gulf.
Natural gas from Arctic fields boosts its importance for the Russian monopoly company.
Rosatom considers to take use of small-scale nuclear reactors for the projected Pavlovsky mine in Novaya Zemlya.
We expect a significant trade growth in energy delivered through the Arctic shipping route, the Japanese shipping company says.
Cross-border cooperation in the Barents Sea on utilisation of resources, knowledge and infrastructure is a win-win for Russia and Norway, Halfdan Millang, head of RN Nordic Oil, argues.
Hectic construction in the east-Arctic settlement of Pevek ahead of installment of Russia’s first floating NPP.
The Nordic country in 2017 boosted its imports from neighboring Russia by almost 40 percent.