Industry and Energy
Roman Trotsenko is ready to invest large sums in the opening of a far northern coal mine and the building of a new major seaport on the Barents Sea coast.
Company Vostok Coal has been been fined several hundred million rubles for illegal mining in the Taymyr Peninsula, but still gets government’s approval for expansion into a local national park.
Today’s floating docks in Murmansk are too small for the new fleet of LK-60 icebreakers.
How much goods can be shipped along Russia’s Arctic route between Europe and Asia? The Ministry of Transport believes shipments can grow as much as 35 million tons in only one year.
Five years after it found one of the largest oil fields in Arctic waters, Rosneft makes clear that more drilling in the Kara Sea is coming up.
The fourth and fifth icebreakers of the LK-60Ya type have a price tag of 50 billion Rubles (€710 million) each.
The company is no longer capable of operating the 42 year old liner that serves isolated settlements along the Kola Peninsula.
A fleet of supply ships surround the «Nan Hai Ba Hao» as it gets ready to spud a well in the Kara Sea.
With new super-powerful icebreakers, the Russian Arctic route might be able to compete with the Suez Canal, leader of nuclear power company Rosatom argues.
Deputy Prime Minister Maksim Akimov pays a visit to Murmansk where the building of the new Lavna terminal is making its way.
The company that was to develop the huge natural gas field in the Barents Sea has been quietly abolished.
The unique birdlife on the island of Kolguyev needs protection, environmental authorities say.
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Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev signs the decree that is to turn the remote Arctic settlement into a hub for shipments on the Northern Sea Route.
The «Akademik Lomonosov» will be towed from Murmansk to Pevek in August when the sea ice is at its minimum for the season.
Companies Mitsui and JOGMEC acquire a 10 percent share in Novatek’s Arctic LNG 2.
The «Vladimir Rusanov» is breaking its way from Sabetta to Korea through Russia’s Arctic route.
It is the third year in a row that drilling rig «Nan Hai 8» arrives in Murmansk to prepare for drilling in Arctic waters.
The «Akademik Lomonosov» has been officially handed over to the Russian state nuclear power company.
Several million tons of liquified natural gas were reloaded in course of few months in the waters outside Honningsvåg, northern Norway.
Nornickel makes big money and has tripled payouts to its sharholders over the last three years.
The Finland to Estonia undersea rail tunnel project led by businessman Peter Vesterbacka has taken a step forward.
The company makes clear that it can build a 600 km long pipeline to the Arctic Ocean and export millions of tons of oil through Arctic waters. But only if it gets major tax benefits from government.
A citizen’s initiative to reform Finland’s mining law has received 50,000 signatures, meaning that the proposal now qualifies for consideration on the parliamentary floor.
Operations are in the making at Payakha, the oil fields that could become among the biggest in the Arctic.
Equinor drills its second dry well in the license area located on 74 degrees North, near the border to Russia.
The Russian natural gas company cuts investments in mineral exploration by 10 billion and announces the establishment of a new major subsidiary on geological survey.
On the desolate shores on peninsula Gydan comes the terminal that is to serve one of Russia’s biggest ever Arctic projects.
Mining technology company Outotec will take part in the development of the Pavlovsky zinc and lead mine in Novaya Zemlya.
We welcome the projected development of a seaport on the Barents coast and a railway connection to Finland, a top leader of a Chinese shipping company says.
State oil producer Rosneft is challenging private company Lukoil’s control over the Varandey terminal.
The developers of the Northern Sea Route team up with DP World, the global port operator based in the Arab gulf state. Container shipping is among the priorities.
In two years time, up to 18 million tons of coal will be shipped out from the new Lavna terminal near Murmansk.
Japanese and Nordic partners team up with Russia’s telecom giant MegaFon, sign MoU to set up trans-Arctic telecom company.
«Akademik Lomonosov» will be towed from Murmansk to Russia’s Arctic port of Pevek this summer and connected to the grid in December.
Four representatives of Greenpeace jumped onboard oil rig «West Hercules» as it was being made ready for the drilling of one of the northernmost ever wells.
The Ob LNG will be developed exclusively with Russian technology.
