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With operations more than 400 kilometers north of mainland Norway, Greenpeace says it is the most controversial and aggressive drilling globally this year.

Only the new plant in Murmansk, a key project component, will employ up to ten thousand people, the company chairman says to Prime Minister Medvedev.

The Arctic LNG-2 will be bigger, cheaper and based on new technology put together by engineers in Murmansk.

Production moved from Taimyr Peninsula to Kola Peninsula following the closure of the nickel plant in Norilsk.

Loaded with liquified gas from Norway’s Snøhvit field, the «Christophe de Margerie» is making it unescorted across the Northern Sea Route to South Korea.

The two reactors on “Akademik Lomonosov” will not have uranium fuel on board when being towed around Scandinavia next year.

Twenty million tons of crude oil has been shipped out of the Russian Arctic in the last six months, shipping major Sovcomflot announces. The company says its new Arctic tankers will be run by gas.

The Kayak well in the Barents Sea is believed to hold up to 50 million barrels. The discovery can possibly be connected to the development of the nearby Johan Castberg field.

The Johan Castberg will come on stream in year 2022 and prepare the way for the development of more northern fields, a new company report reads.

«This will truly be a unique oil field», Rosneft leader Igor Sechin says as he gives the president a core sample from the ongoing Arctic drilling operation.

New exploration acreage is vital for our jobs and economy, the country’s oil minister highlights as he invites the oil industry into the most pristine part of the Norwegian shelf.