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 petroleum industry rejoices over the discovery of two new major oil fields in the Barents Sea. A series of field centers are now in the making in Norwegian Arctic waters.
Thousands of households lost their cooking heat and the eternal gas fire in front of the famous Alyesha war memorial silently died out as Murmansk Oblast experienced one of its most serious disruptions of gas supplies ever.
The state-owned oil company might take over control of the Zvezda yard in the Russian Far East, as well as the Roslyakovo yard outside Murmansk, as part of a government bid to boost Russian offshore capacities.
BARENTS SEA: Delimitation agreement with Norway was part of a broader Russian strategy to secure stability in the Arctic, argues researcher Arild Moe as the Nansen Expedition sails through the waters in question.
The criminal case in the Kolskaya jack-up rig disaster in December 2011 is still not over. New evidence suggests that the management foresaw a possible accident.
