Industry and Energy
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.
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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.
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.
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.
