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.
Oleg Mnatsakanyan, the former leader of the AMNGR company in Murmansk, is sentenced for his dubious leasing of a state-owned drilling ship to a Norwegian company.
Rosneft finalizes TNK-BP takeover and becomes the biggest oil company in the world, making Chairman Igor Sechin even more ready for drilling in the Arctic.
Gazprom’s two biggest competitors in Russia, Novatek and Rosneft, will both be allowed to export LNG from their Arctic fields, the Russian Ministry of Energy decides.
Gazprom Neft hires Romanian company that has zero experience in Arctic operation to drill the North-Dolginskoye field in the south-eastern part of the Barents Sea.
