Industry and Energy
With the closure comes a 33% cut in emissions from the infamous factory in the Russian, Norwegian borderland.
Goods volumes on the Russian Arctic route reaches 26 million tons.
Sailing fish from the Far East via the Northern Sea Route to St. Petersburg on board the nuclear-powered container vessel «Sevmorput» turned out to be less profitable than expected.
From the vulnerable tundra lands of remote peninsula Taymyr will soon be extracted many million tons of coal. Much of it will be shipped along the Northern Sea Route to India.
Russian far eastern shipyard Zvezda is ready to start building of the first tanker for Novatek’s Arctic LNG 2 project
The toxic smoke that for decades has embraced the borderlands between Russia and Norway might soon vanish. It will help save and restore vulnerable nature. But the local population worries that Nikel will end up as an abandoned ghost town
Three drilling rigs have this year spud wells in the Kara Sea and the Gulf of Ob.
The diesel-engined vessel «Ob» is part of the state nuclear power company’s new conventional fleet of icebreakers.
Russian state experts approve construction plans for the Pavlovskoye seaport in the remote and heavy militarized Arctic archipelago.
Goods volumes are expected to reach 29 million tons in course of 2019, says leader of Russia’s Northern Sea Route Administration.
The Arctic route opens new opportunities for our deliveries to Asia, says company Acron.
A ship-to-ship reloading facility by the island of Kildin is getting ready to handle 300 meter long Arctic shuttle tankers.
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The production of clean energy could become even more expensive if Russia blocks foreign companies from leading green infrastructure projects, experts warn.
A company top leader speaks warmly about international energy cooperation in the Arctic, but keeps journalists in the cold.
Russian state oil company Rosneft invites Indian companies to invest in the far northern Vankor area and the construction of a pipeline to the Arctic coast.
The turbines built near the windy coast of the Barents Sea will account for a major share of the green power produced by Russia over the next decade.
Companies Mitsui O.S.K. Lines and the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) strike deal with Novatek over a LNG reloading complex in the bay of Ura Guba.
The «LNG Dubhe» is the first Chinese-built carrier made for the Russian Yamal LNG project. The shipyard in Shanghai has another 3 vessels in the line.
Washington’s blacklisting of COSCO includes potentially devastating consequences for Russian LNG exports from the Arctic.
The Raggovidda wind park in Berlevåg, Arctic Norway, teams up with Luxembourgian investors and boosts green generation. Some of it will be used to produce hydrogen.
Rosneft leader Igor Sechin says he needs €36 billion in tax cuts for his projected oil pipeline to the Arctic Ocean. But Russia’s minister of finance says «njet».
The president requests state natural gas company Gazprom to find the necessary resources in Yamal.
Norway’s nuclear safety watchdog is informed about the voyage, but want to know more about Russia’s future plans for sailing commercial cargo with the reactor-powered «Sevmorput» container ship.
Final preparations in the remote Arctic town that will host the floating nuclear installation.
Natural gas company Novatek gets 40 billion rubles tax deductions for the building of a grand port terminal in the Gydan Peninsula. The deal is one of a series of tax benefits for the companies investing in Russia’s new Arctic projects.
Almost 50 years after Soviet oilmen drilled in the Norwegian Arctic archipelago, the Russian government commissions a new analysis of the well samples.
It is the first shipment of the kind, shipowner Sovcomflot says.
Prime Minister Narenda Modi’s visit to the Russian far east this week included focus on Arctic LNG, the Northern Sea Route and the Arctic Council.
A joint venture set up by Novatek and Sovcomflot will develop and run a powerful new fleet of Arctic carriers.
A light discovery is made in Sputnik, a well located near the bigger Wisting field.
The current state monopoly on shelf development must end and foreign companies given access, Yuri Trutnev argues.
The projected reloading terminal for LNG in Ura Bay outside Murmansk has been fully approved by Russian military authorities, Novatek leader Leonid Mikhelson assures.
Tugs start towing floating nuclear power plant across the Northern Sea Route from Murmansk to Chukotka in what is just the new beginning of a massive investment in new reactors for civilian and military purposes in the Russian Arctic.
Climate crisis and environmental concern notwithstanding, the country says it aims for a big dig of the carbon-rich rock. Much of it will be extracted in new Arctic fields.
The 30-years old container carrier “Sevmorput” is now being loaded with 200 refrigerated containers with fish at port in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy and will soon set sail for the Northern Sea Route and further south to St. Petersburg.
