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.
I would like companies like Schlumberger and Halliburton to listen to what we have to offer in the Arctic, the Rosneft President told an audience of US. oilmen.
Relations between Russia’s three biggest energy companies get increasingly tense as Rosneft and Novatek together seek to push Gazprom down from its powerful monopoly position.
Foreign Ministry, regional politicians and environmentalists on the Norwegian side of the border are worried by the prolonged operation of oldest Kola NPP reactors.
While neighboring Norwegian and Russian regions put their faith in Arctic oil, the northern Swedish region of Norrbotten is becoming one of Europe’s bigger producers of wind energy.
Rosneft intends to produce gas at its huge fields in the Kara Sea and has started to look at the possible construction of a LNG plant in the nearby Yamal Peninsula. The plant could be located alongside similar plants operated by Novatek.
Greenpeace International has scrambled its Rainbow Warrior III ship to intercept a tanker carrying the first oil produced at a Russian Arctic offshore drilling platform.”
Greenpeace efforts to stop the northernmost oil prospect in the world failed after a standoff in the Barents Sea ultimately led to removal of the organization’s ship “Esperanza” by the Norwegian coastguard on Friday. The ship was released early Saturday morning 10 hours after what Greenpeace says was an illegal boarding by the coastguard in international waters.
