Billions are invested in the Zvezda yard outside Vladivostok to make it capable of meeting Russia’s growing demand for ice-protected ships and platforms.
The Sintezneftegaz company this week won a court case against the federal Agency of Subsoil Resources (Rosnedra) on the right to keep control over its licenses to the Admiralteyskoe and Pakhtusovskoe fields in the Barents Sea.
One of Finland’s most experienced politicians, Paavo Lipponen, has been hired to the job as consultant for the controversial Nord Stream project, the Russian-controlled gas pipeline which is to run across the Baltic Sea.
Lukoil’s subsidiary in the Komi Republic is about to start the development of two new fields in the Nenets Autonomous Okrug, won in tenders in late September.
Governor of Arkhangelsk Oblast, Ilya Mikhalchuk, is planning a meeting with Rosatom leader Sergey Kirienko in a bid to revitalize plans for a nuclear power plant in the region.
Russian energy major Gazprom will request the federal government to fund a 100 billion RUB investment in its electricity units in 2009, the company’s deputy chairman said Friday. A major part of that sum is to be spent on the TGK-1, one of the biggest electricity generators in Northwest Russia.
Russian energy major Gazprom will seek to enhance the role of LNG in a bid to diversify export routes, company leader Aleksey Miller said Wednesday. That could imply a bigger role of LNG also in projects like the Shtokman field.
Russia’s oil major LUKoil says it is ready to bid for the two fields in Nenets Autonomous Okrug, said to be the largest untapped fields in the European part of Russia.
Russian authorities, including the FSB, demand a bigger level of control in the Kharyaga project in the Nenets Autonomous Okrug company. That will increase pressure on field operator Total and its Norwegian partner StatoilHydro.
Russia is developing new major export capacities for oil, among them in the Arctic. However, political considerations will be instrumental as to how much oil will flow through respective routes, a Norwegian researcher argues.
The far northern archipelago of Novaya Zemlya is the best suited base for the development of the Shtokman field, leader of the local administration argues.
