Industry and Energy
DEA Norge, the company controlled by Russian billionaire Mikhail Fridman, did not find oil in the license area which it controls together with new partner Wintershall
Russia’s two biggest oil producers are at odds over out-shipments from the Arctic terminal of Varandey.
Reactor testing starts later in October or in November.
The appraisal well drilled by company Lundin at the Alta structure is an important step towards another major field development in the northern Norwegian waters.
As the Russian treasury is running out of money, government appeals to the country’s biggest industrial companies for funding to new projects.
A railway will affect the income and existence of the reindeer herding communities in the entire area from Rovaniemi in Finland to Kirkenes in Norway.
The Heiss area is located along the coasts of the Franz Josef Land and could hold up to 140 million tons of oil and 2 trillion cubic meters of gas. Now, Gazprom is training on how to remove icebergs from the harsh Arctic waters.
The two brand new 160-meter long vessels that are making it through the Russian Arctic shipping route produce less than half of normal vessels’ carbon dioxide emissions.
According to the Russian natural gas producer, the Norwegian shipping and logistics company will handle millions of tons of LNG from Yamal.
Energy company Gazprom will soon be able to deliver up to 150 billion cubic meters of natural gas per year from its fields in the Yamal Peninsula.
For a few years to come, gas from Russia’s Yamal Peninsula could be reloaded from ice-classed tankers to standard LNG-carriers outside Kirkenes or Honningsvåg.
After years of negotiations, Russia and Norway have still not signed an agreement on cross-border mapping of resources in the Barents Sea.
Siste/ mest lest
With a speed of 11 knots the «Venta Maersk» sailed through the most difficult part of the Northern Sea Route.
But there will be exceptions, Yuri Borisov underlines.
New fleet of LNG-carriers to serve Arctic LNG-2 plant supposed to be launched by 2023.
State company Rosneft does no longer believe in a liquified natural gas plant in Indiga on the coast of the Nenets Autonomous Okrug.
As if a symbol of clean intents for the Arctic, Chinese shipping company COSCO has sent 4 vessels loaded with wind power equipment through the Northern Sea Route.
Gazprom wants to build islands on shallow Arctic waters for well drilling, but argues that it will be too difficult to do the cleanup.
A total of 9,95 million tons of goods have so far this year been shipped to and from ports on the Northern Sea Route.
Exploration drilling proves another almost 800 billion cubic meters of natural gas in offshore fields.
If the country is to reach its high ambitions for the Northern Sea Route, it might have to build a railway to Sabetta.
Natural gas company Novatek says it plans to build a major reloading terminal for LNG in the heavily militarised area of Ura Guba near Murmansk.
«There is a need for a civilian shipyard in the Murmansk area,» says Director of Kimek, the yard in Kirkenes with Russian shipowners as main customers.
The drilling of two wells in remote Arctic waters is basis for an international meeting of oilmen.
Russia doubles its production of liquified natural gas from the Arctic as a second plant in the Yamal LNG is launched this week. This is only the start, says company Novatek.
It will be owned by nuclear power company Rosatom and serve the northernmost mine in the world.
State oil company Rosneft says it intends to build two major dry-docks for Arctic oil platforms in Shipyard No 82 in Roslyakovo.
Russian geological research ships are soon on their way to the Laptev Sea.
Gazpromneft Marine Bunker, a subsidiary of oil company Gazprom Neft, files a bankruptcy petition against the once very powerful regional company.
Natural gas company Novatek has spud its first ever offshore Arctic well on the spot where it intends to develop its third Arctic LNG project.
Russia’s first floating nuclear power plant will be thoroughly tested before towing to the north Siberian port of Pevek.
Shipping in the Gulf of Ob is paralysed and the situation complicated, icebreaker company Rosatomflot says.
Despite opening of the Northern Sea Route, large amount of Russian Arctic LNG is still reloaded in European ports on its way to Asian markets.
Among the ships involved in this year’s first west-bound voyage across the Northern Sea Route is LNG carrier «Clean Planet», which is on its maiden trip to the Arctic terminal of Sabetta.
Icebreaker «Aleksandr Sannikov» will open the way to the company’s oil terminal in the Gulf of Ob.