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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.
Boliden will run first test-route this fall in a project with potential to radically reduce greenhouse gas emissions from mining.
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.
Siste/ mest lest
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.
The oil company intends to extend its Arctic drilling program in the remote Gulf of Khatanga.
The «Bavenit» will become one of the world’s best equipped ships of its kind, capable of exploring the outer parts of the Russian Arctic shelf, state company Rosgeo says.
It would undermine the export monopoly of Gazprom, members of the State Duma say.
The world needs more food and PhosAgro delivers a 25-years peak of phosphate rock from the Khibiny mountains.
After years of hefty conflict over terminal facilities, state company Natsrybresurs takes over management of the 48 mooring points at the important infrastructure object.
The sanction regime with neighbouring Norway should be softened in order to reopen for fresh fish deliveries to the regional Russian processing industry, says Mikhail Zub, head of the Murmansk Fish Enterprise.
The first 18,000 tons of condensate has been shipped out from the new Arctic port of Sabetta.
The world’s first ever installation of its kind will be towed several thousand kilometers through Arctic ice before it reaches its destination in Pevek, June 2019.
This is what they are interested in, the Russian deputy governor says as he returns from a business trip to China.
Less companies show interest, wells are dry and the government signals that it will postpone its its next major licensing round.
And it is all happening on the doorstep to Norway, company representative Bjørn Gundersen said during today’s Arctic Frontiers in Tromsø.
Russian Arctic oil is on the rise. But several regions experience a decline in output.
2017 became all time high for export of seafood from Norway’s Arctic waters.
The «Eduard Toll» is the fourth ship now shuttling to and from Russia’s new natural gas terminal in the Arctic.
Engineers from Italy, France, Germany and Norway are crucial for Novatek and its development of the Arctic LNG 2.