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 Norwegian Pollution Control Authority demands that StatoilHydro takes measures to cut emissions from the Melkøya gas plant on the Barents Sea coast.
Lukoil’s recent agreement with China’s Sinopec includes three million tons of oil from the Yuzhno Khilchuyu field in the Nenets Autonomous Okrug. That is almost half of next year’s production at the newly opened field.
The Norwegian Centre Party, one of the three parties in Norway’s left-wing coalition government, rejects starting a consequence study on oil and gas activity in Lofoten.
One of the biggest energy consuming units in Arkhangelsk Oblast, the Arkhangelsk Thermal Plant, will be connected to the Russian gas pipeline grid in late March and transformed from oil to gas use in the course of summer.
The Sintez Group is about to sell its 50 percent stake in Arktikshelfneftegaz, the company which controls the license to the Medynsko-Varandey oil field in the Pechora Sea. State-owned Zarubezhneft is the most likely buyer of the stake.
US oil major ConocoPhillips will this year sell all its 20 percent in Lukoil. The Russian company will itself buy the shares, and thus also becomes the sole owner of regional subsidiaries like the Naryanmarneftegaz in the Nenets Autonomous Okrug.
